Re: [Resteasy-developers] Could not find MessageBodyWriter for response object of type: java.util.ArrayList of media type: application/xml

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

On 11/14/11 9:01 AM, Heiko W.Rupp wrote:
>
> Am 14.11.2011 um 14:47 schrieb Bill Burke:
>> Its type erasure.  Use GenericEntity as Xavier suggested.  You are
>
> Ok, I understand *sigh*
>
>> probably marshalling JAXB?  The problem is Resteasy can't determine the
>> type of the list by just passing it in as the generic type information
>> is not available.
>
> Would it make sense to create some method level annotation (to include in JAX-RS 2.0)
> that conveys that type information?
> The GenericEntity may work perfectly, but is an ugly hack, that in my opinion
> obfuscates the code.
>

The same problem exists I believe.  There's no way to do List<Foo>.class 
I don't htink.


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