Re: [Resteasy-developers] java.lang.String JSON formated

[Bill B. <bb...@re...>]

On 9/8/11 3:51 PM, Jeff Schnitzer wrote:
> At least three people on this list (counting myself) have voiced the
> desire to return a simple String to the client from a method, and have
> that String get JSON encoded properly.  Right now you cannot construct
> a REST method that returns a simple String without putting JSON
> formatting logic in the Resource, which means I have weird formatting
> logic mixed with my business logic.
>

And I've said I'm not changing Resteasy.  Period.  There's a few work 
arounds for this edge case.  For example, just write your own MBW

@Provider
@Produces("application/json", "application/*+json")
public class RawStringJsonWriter implements MessageBodyWriter<String> {...}


Adding this to your environment should override the default 
StringTextStar behavior.

> The JSON spec is at the very least ambiguous about how to encode a
> simple String (and boolean and number).  Resteasy does the "expected
> thing" with numbers and booleans, I want it to do the "expected thing"
> with strings as well.
>

Your expectations are different than others.


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