Hello,
well, in your case, the conversion of Blah objects to Representation is taken
into account by a JSON converter. From the point of view of converters, there
is not difference between the two annotated methods, because they both return a
Blah object. And as they are two methods that are able to generate json
representations, the algorithm choose the first declared one.
As a general rule it's better to put specific methods before the generic ones.
I wonder why the are two distinct methods. Do they generate distinct objects?
I can see a reason to use a specific method when you control the way to
generate the json representation and don't want to rely on converter. In this
case, if you remove the JSON converter and change the method so that it returns
a Representation, the content negotiation happens correctly:
@Get("json")
public Representation retrieve2() {
//return a JSON Representation according to your own serialisation algorithm.
}
I don't argue to reply plainly to your request, so feel free to ask for more
details!
Best regards,
Thierry Boileau
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