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

In my case I wanted to return a formatted xml string and it was all combined into one line.

Adding produces = { "application/xml", "text/xml" } to the request mapping was enough to return the string as formatted XML (with indentation).

example:

@RequestMapping(method= RequestMethod.GET, value="/generate/{blabla}", produces = { "application/xml", "text/xml" })
public String getBlaBla(@PathVariable("param") String param) throws IOException {

}

Goodluck.