A message body writer for Java class java.util.ArrayList…and MIME media type text/xml was not found

Question

Im using Jersey to build a REST Service and want to return a Collection as XML.

@GET
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_XML)
@Path(\"/direct         


        

Answer 1

Use

List list = new ArrayList();
GenericEntity> entity = new GenericEntity>(list) {};
Response response = Response.ok(entity).build();

The Generic entity wrapper works to get the output when using the Response builder.

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