Hi,
I am new to CXF, so I apologize if this is obvious and I've missed it in the
docs.
First, what I am trying to do is POST JSON to a RS service. And I've made
that work, although it seems awkward. I'll get to that.
I have services defined:
// @Produces({"application/json", "text/javascript"})
@POST
@Path("/add")
public Response addUnids(@QueryParam("userId")String userid,
@FormParam("unids")UnidCollection unids) {
[..]
return Response.ok().build();
}
@Produces({"application/json", "text/javascript"})
@GET
@Path(("/get")
public Response getUnids(@QueryParam("userId") String userId) {
return Response.ok(buildUnidCollection()).build();
}
The immediate question is:
I have two classes: Unid, and UnidCollection. The latter simply contains a
Collection of the former.
Both have public static <type> fromString(String str) methods (as well as
public static valueOf(String) methods).
However, when I invoke the service, I get an exception saying the
UnidOridCollection does not have String constructor, fromString or valueOf
methods. In fact it has both. If I add the String constructor to
UnidCollection, it's happy. But I'd prefer not to go that route.
Why does it find the fromString() in Unid, but not in UnidCollection() ?
The bigger question I have is why is CXF able to automatically marshall to
JSON, but not the other way around?
What is it that I need to do to make that automatic (and not need the above
methods)?
Thanks so much,
Linus
