Spring Boot REST with XML Support

Question

I made a simple REST webservice with Spring Boot 1.2.5 and it works fine for JSON but I can\'t make this work to return XML.

This is my controller:

Answer 1

To make this work in Spring Boot without using Jersey we need to add this dependency:

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

The output will be a bit ugly but it works:

    
        
        Swimming
        55
        
    
    
        
        Cycling
        120
        
    

Here is nice tutorial: http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2015/04/jax-rs-2-x-vs-spring-mvc-returning-an-xml-representation-of-a-list-of-objects.html