Question

I have a simple web service written with Apache Wink 1.0, I want to receive and return JSON data.

According the Wink docs, this should work …

@POST
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public JSONObject postJSON(JSONObject requestJSON) {
  JSONObject jobj = new JSONObject();
  return jobj;
}

… but I see this error when I try to hit the web service …

org.apache.wink.server.internal.handlers.PopulateResponseMediaTypeHandler - 
Content-Type not specified via Response object or via @Produces annotation 
so automatically setting via generic-type compatible MessageBodyWriter providers

… any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Rob

Answer 1

Usage of JSONObject is a little bit strange. Easier and more flexible approach:

public MyDto postJSON(MyDto dto) {
  //do something
  MyDto md = new MyDto();
  return md;
}

@XmlRootElement
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class MyDto {
  private String f1;
  private int f2;
  //etc.
}

JAX-RS would serialize MyDto do JSON. In fact, even cleaner approach is to return Response object

public Response postJSON(MyDto dto) {
    //do something
    MyDto md = new MyDto();
    return Response.ok(md);
}