Hi, I have a question on providers. The code base I'm working on uses a
subclass of AegisElementProvider. I'm trying to add a new method to a service
class where this provider is in play. I want a very simple resource that
allows one to POST any free-form XML document...like this:
@Path("/foo")
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION.XML)
public Response postXml(String body) {
...
}
...and call it like this from curl:
curl -d "<xml>foo</xml>" -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -X POST
"http://host/path/foo";
Unfortunately, the same service has another method on it that accepts a
JAXB/typed XML document with namespaces, etc. When I post to my method above,
the Provider first gets the request, and tries to marshall it into some Java
type, and the request fails -- seems it expecting a specific xsi:type
WARN 2011-12-01 01:49:46,640 [TypeUtil] xsi:type was not specified for
top-level element xml
WARN 2011-12-01 01:49:46,648 [WebApplicationExceptionMapper]
WebApplicationException has been caught : No mapping found for XML input.
So, my question is this: is there some way to easily bypass this Provider for
this method, so I can post any content I want as application/xml and have it
just converted to a String -- bypassing the whole JAXB process altogether?
