Hi

at the moment it is only text/plain that is supported for primitives. 
so only registering a custom writer would convert them into xml.

I'll have to allocate some time later on and probably convert primitives
into something like
<int>3</int> and {"int":3} for JSON...

cheers, Sergey


Gabriel Guardincerri wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are using REST with JAX-RS and proxy clients. 
> 
> We have this method
> 
>     @GET
>     @Path("/{id}/replies/count")
>     int getNumberOfReplies(@PathParam("id") long id) throws
> RemoteBridgeException, IOException;
> 
> 
> The problem seems to be that since the return type is a primitive int, the
> MINE type of the method is application/octet-stream. That seems to be
> true, since the response is just a number, I mean, not an xml. The problem
> is that we are using a text/xml payload to return a error messages. And
> there is the conflict. We get a no writer found error when returning the
> error message.
> So I added this
> 
>     @Produces("text/xml")
> 
> But now the client says the there is no writer when the method is
> returning a number. 
> 
> So now I added 
> 
>     @Produces("text/xml,application/octet-stream")
> 
> But it isn't working.
> 
> Any ideas about how to solve this? I would prefer to only have text/xml,
> is that possible?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gabriel
> 

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