Accepting / returning XML/JSON request and response - Spring MVC

Question

I need to write a rest service which accepts XML/JSON as a input (POST method) and XML/JSON as a output (based on the input format). I have tried a below approach to achieve thi

Answer 1

i was facing the same problem like yours. Below is my solution and sample.

Below is maven dependency that you need to include:

        
            com.fasterxml.jackson.core
            jackson-core
            2.4.3
        
        
            com.fasterxml.jackson.core
            jackson-databind
            2.4.3
        
        
            com.fasterxml.jackson.core
            jackson-annotations
            2.4.3
        
        
            com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat
            jackson-dataformat-xml
            2.4.3
        

dispatcher-servlet.xml

and my @RequestMapping ( you can use your own request mapping )

@RequestMapping(value = "/testXMLJSON",
            method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = {
                    MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE,
                    MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE })
    @ResponseBody
    public ArtworkContentMessageType testXMLJSON()
    {
        //this is GS1 xml standard mapping.
        ArtworkContentMessageType resp = new ArtworkContentMessageType();
        StandardBusinessDocumentHeader standarBusinessDocumentHeader = new StandardBusinessDocumentHeader();
        resp.setStandardBusinessDocumentHeader(standarBusinessDocumentHeader );
        ArtworkContentType artWorkContent = new ArtworkContentType();
        resp.getArtworkContent().add(artWorkContent);

        return resp ;
    }

If application/xml is required then, below headers must be present

Content-Type:application/xml
Accept:application/xml