How to set the charset with JAX-RS?

Question

How can I set the charset with JAX-RS? I\'ve tried @Produces(\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\") but that was ignored and only text/html was send with th

Answer 1

Just to keep it up to date. Not sure whether this was supported in older versions of Jersey, but definitely if you decide to use ResponseBuilder.header(...) method you can use MediaType method withCharset(). Like this:

return Response.status(Status.OK)
         .entity(result)
         .header(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE.withCharset("utf-8"))
         .build());