spring mvc rest response json and xml

Question

I have the requirement to return the result from the database either as a string in xml-structure or as json-structure. I\'ve got a solution, but I don\'t know, if this one

Answer 1

Here I wrote method which take XML as request parameter from your request mapping URL

Here I am posting XML to my URL "baseurl/user/createuser/"

    public class UserController {
    @RequestMapping(value = "createuser/" ,
    method=RequestMethod.POST,  consumes= "application/xml")
    @ResponseBody
    ResponseEntity createUser(@RequestBody String requestBody ) {

        String r = "10"; // Put whatever response u want to return to requester

    return new ResponseEntity(
              "Handled application/xml request. Request body was: " 
              + r, 
              new HttpHeaders(), 
              HttpStatus.OK);       


    }
}

I tested it using chrome poster where you can send any xml in content body like:

" 3saurabhshripasstest@test.com"

This XML will capture by my createUser method and stored in String requestBody which i can use further