How to set the charset with JAX-RS?

Question

How can I set the charset with JAX-RS? I\'ve tried @Produces(\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\") but that was ignored and only text/html was send with th

Answer 1

First setup @Produces annotation on your resource class methods.

Then in MessageBodyWriter of your returned type, you can do this in writeTo() method:

response.setContentType(mediaType.toString);

Remark: You can inject response in your writer by:

@Context
protected HttpServletResponse response;