Jersey, how to POST a list of JSON objects?

Question

I am building a RESTful web-service in Java using Jersey 1.11, and have problems implementing a method which consumes a list of JSON-ised entities. The single instance method wo

Answer 1

The problem is the generic list type, which is not available at runtime due to type erasure, so Jersey wont know what kind of POJOs to unmarshal.

I think the simplest solution (which I know works, at least when using Jackson in your MessageBodyReader) in this case would be to just use a normal Java array instead of the List, so the method signature becomes:

public String createBatch(@PathParam("someParam") String someParam, MyEntity[] myEnts)

And yes, combining @PathParam and a consumed/unmarshalled body parameter should be fine.