I am reframing my own question at : Returning a primitive array through REST
I am using Jersey, and I am unable to understand what codes/annotations should be added at both server and client ends to return an "array" of primitives (strings, integers, anything). I can do this very easily in SOAP...isnt there some easy way out in REST ? I got some complex ways of doing this here : how-to-serialize-java-primitives-using-jersey-
A piece of code (both server and client) would be appreciated a lot !
Wrap the primitive array in a JAXB annotated object. Jersey will use the built-in MessageBodyReader and MessageBodyWriter
E.g.
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;
@XmlRootElement
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public IntArray {
private int[] ints;
public IntArray() {}
public IntArray(int[] ints) {
this.ints = ints;
}
public int[] getInts() {
return ints;
}
...
}
On the server side:
@Path("ints")
public class TestResource {
@GET
@Produces("application/xml")
public Response get() {
int[] ints = {1, 2, 3};
IntArray intArray = new IntArray(ints);
return Response.ok(intArray).build();
}
}
On the client side:
Client client = new Client();
WebResource wr = client.resource("http://localhost:8080/service");
IntArray intArray = wr.path("/ints").get(IntArray.class);
int[] ints = intArray.getInts();
Try something like that. I didn't test the code, so hopefully it works.
