>I tried that from scratch, but it just returns a java object. This could come from the classpath of the server application. The ability to convert an Object to a perticular type of representation is given via Restlet extensions (see this page for more details about the Converter [1]) simply put in the classpath of the application (with their dependencies).For example the "org.restlet.ext.json" extension allows to generate on-the-fly json representation of Java bean. So, I wonder what kind of extensions are you using for your application?
Hmm, I see. I have "org.restlet.ext.json" installed but it did not work. Googling suggested I install Jackson. After I got some runtime exceptions, installed the org.codehaus jars and now json works. As for xml, I downloaded xstream separately. Even once I installed that, the conversion failed without error or warning and returned no entity. I tried adding all the jar files included in the xstream download to my project, but no love. Absolutely no hint as to what was wrong here. Much googling later, I stumbled upon this http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_2.0/13-restlet/28-restlet/313-restlet.html Oh, so there's supposed to be a "org.restlet.ext.xstream" but it's not supported in the GAE version of restlet (?!). So I downloaded the standard edition version of restlet, found that jar, added it, and now it seems to work -- still need to see if it does what I want. All that said, shouldn't I have gotten some sort of.... error messages along the way to tell me what was wrong?!? As it is, the only errors I got were when I installed Jackson but not the codehaus jars. Honestly, this seems like a very confusing process. Just getting an empty entity is not a useful indication of where something is missing. Appologies for my frustration, but I think this could all be clearer in the docs if there isn't going to be an error. ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2700755
