CXF: No message body writer found for class - automatically mapping non-simple resources

Question

I am using the CXF rest client which works well for simple data types (eg: Strings, ints). However, when I attempt to use custom Objects I get this:

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Answer 1

You can also configure CXFNonSpringJAXRSServlet (assuming JSONProvider is used):

  jaxrs.providers
  
      org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.provider.JSONProvider
      (writeXsiType=false)