Question

Just a quick question .. I have jaxrs GET method without any @consume annotation .. I can hit this over the browser and get results .. I want this method to consume JSON request at the same time I should be able to hit this over the browser .. I tried annotating @consume for both application Jason and urlencoded but couldn’t get to support both at the same time .. Can some one shed a light with little piece of code pls?

Answer 1

“Hit this over the browser” means GET request. Consume means POST request. These are two different types of RESTful methods and they can’t be combines in one Java method. This is how you should do it:

@POST
@Consume(MediaType.APPLICAITON_JSON)
public void post(Foo foo) {
  // ...
}
@GET
public void get() {
  // ...
}    

get() method will receive requests from your browser, when you “hit” it, while post() method will be the one that consumes JSON.