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

SOLUTION: I used a combination of both answers below (thank you very much!). I am posting here in case anyone else needs help.

My modified controller:

@Controller
public class RemoteSearchController {

    @Autowired
    private SdnSearchService sdnSearchService;

    @RequestMapping(value = "/remote/search", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = { "application/xml", "text/xml" }, consumes = MediaType.ALL_VALUE )
    @ResponseBody
    public SdnSearchResults search(@ModelAttribute SdnSearch sdnSearch) {
        List foundSdns = sdnSearchService.find( sdnSearch );
        SdnSearchResults results = new SdnSearchResults();
        results.setSdns( foundSdns );
        return results;
    }
}

And on my client, I set the request headers:

Content-type: application/text Accept: text/xml I think ultimately the problem was that my client headers were not being set correctly, so I may not have had to make some of these changes. But I liked the idea of a SearchResults class containing a list of results:

@XmlRootElement
public class SdnSearchResults {
    private List sdns;
...
}