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

If the resource define as below

@GET
@Path("/{id}")
@Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML})
public Student getStudent(@PathParam("id") String  id) {
 return student(); // logic to retunrs student object
}

Then the request should contains 'accept' header ('application/json' or application/xml'),
then it returns response in json or xml format.

Sample request :

curl -k -X GET -H "accept: application/json" "https://172.17.0.5:8243/service/1.0/222"

Sample Student class

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;


@XmlRootElement(name = "student")
public class Student {
    private int id;
    private String name;
    private String collegeName;
    private int age;
    @XmlAttribute
    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    @XmlElement
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    @XmlElement
    public String getCollegeName() {
        return collegeName;
    }

    public void setCollegeName(String collegeName) {
        this.collegeName = collegeName;
    }

    public int getAge() {
        return age;
    }
    @XmlElement
    public void setAge(int age) {
        this.age = age;
    }

}