Re: returning xml from REST based web service

[Dan Diephouse]

JAXB will encode any strings that you return. If you want to return an xml
document directly from a RESTful service you'd have to use a different
databinding. If you use the Aegis databinding you can return
javax.xml.transform.Source objects or or org.w3c.dom.Documents.
http://cwiki.apache.org/CXF20DOC/aegis-databinding.html. Strings will still
be encoded.

Hope that helps,
- Dan

On 8/10/07, Dave Kallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am tring to return a snippet of xml as a string from a cxf/rest based
> web
> service method. How do I prevent cxf from marking it up.
> Here is what is supposed to be returned
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <add><doc>
> <field name="id">1</field>
> <field name="filename">filename.psd</field>
> <field name="releaseDate">2007-08-10T10:00:20:070Z</field>
> <field name="dateAdded">2007-08-10T10:00:20:070Z</field>
> <field name="dateUpdated">2007-08-10T10:00:20:070Z</field>
> </doc></add>
> Here is the response from cxf
>
> <ns2:getDocumentsResponse
> xmlns:ns2="http://myservice.webservices";>&lt;?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8" ?>&#xd;
> &lt;add>&lt;doc>&#xd;
> &lt;field name="id">1&lt;/field>&#xd;
> &lt;field name="filename">beaver.psd&lt;/field>&#xd;
> &lt;field name="releaseDate">2007-08-10T10:00:20:070Z&lt;/field>&#xd;
> &lt;field name="dateAdded">2007-08-10T10:00:20:070Z&lt;/field>&#xd;
>
> &lt;field name="dateUpdated">2007-08-10T10:00:20:070Z&lt;/field>&#xd;
> &lt;/doc>&lt;/add>&#xd;
> </ns2:getDocumentsResponse>
>
>
> --
>
> Dave Kallstrom
>



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