Spring-boot return json and xml from controllers

Question

I have a spring-boot 1.1.7 application that uses Thymeleaf for much of the UI, so the response from my controllers hasn\'t really been a concern. However, now I need to pro

Answer 1

I had the exact same problem and I found the solution on Spring documentation website : here

In synthesis, I added the following dependency to the pom.xml of my project :

     com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat
     jackson-dataformat-xml
 

Then I added the following code block to the class that the service had to return :

 import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

 @XmlRootElement
 public class Greeting {...}

And it worked.