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Asked: 2026-06-05T12:27:36+00:00

I have created a page where I want to get the JSON response from

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I have created a page where I want to get the JSON response from a JSF page,
but when i try to get page it shows me whole html page.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>
        <title>Facelet Title</title></head><body>
[{"value": "21", "name": "Mick Jagger"},{"value": "43", "name": "Johnny Storm"},{"value": "46", "name": "Richard Hatch"},{"value": "54", "name": "Kelly Slater"},{"value": "55", "name": "Rudy Hamilton"},{"value": "79", "name": "Michael Jordan"}]

</body></html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    JSF is a MVC framework generating HTML, not some kind of a REST web service framework. You’re essentially abusing JSF as a web service. Your concrete problem is simply caused by placing <html> tags and so on in the view file yourself.

    If you really insist, then you can always achieve this by using <ui:composition> instead of <html>. You also need to make sure that the right content type of application/json is been used, this defaults in JSF namely to text/html.

    <ui:composition
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets">
    <f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{bean.renderJson}" />
</ui:composition>

    with

    public void renderJson() throws IOException {
    FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
    ExternalContext externalContext = facesContext.getExternalContext();
    externalContext.setResponseContentType("application/json");
    externalContext.setResponseCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
    externalContext.getResponseOutputWriter().write(someJsonString);
    facesContext.responseComplete();
}

    But I strongly recommend to look at JAX-RS or JAX-WS instead of abusing JSF as a JSON web service. Use the right tool for the job.

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