Unable to find a MessageBodyReader of content-type application/json and type class java.lang.String

Question

I am using RestEasy client with jackson providers and getting the above error

clientside code is:

ClientRequest request = new ClientRequest(url);
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Answer 1

Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder().register(ResteasyJacksonProvider.class).build();

Answer 2

If you really want to by-pass goodness of JAX-RS actually doing serialization for you (instead of manually calling GSON), use StreamingOutput (i.e. wrap outputter as StreamingOutput, return that object).