JSON Serialization

[Chris Geer]

I have a web service which supports both SOAP and RESTful calls which works
great except for one small issue with JSON serialization on List results.

I have two methods, one that returns a single entity and one that returns a
List of entities.

    @GET
    @Path("/parcel/{id}")
    @Consumes({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML})
    @Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML})
    public Parcel getParcel(@PathParam("id") String id) {...}

and

    @GET
    @Path("/parcels")
    @Consumes({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML})
    @Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML})
    public List<Parcel> getParcels() {...}

When these methods are called via SOAP or Rest with XML return it all works
perfectly. When I call with JSON return it all looks decent but breaks
down. With no JSONProvider configuration the results look like this:

getParcel
    {"ns1.Parcel": {
       "ns1.ParcelID": 26,
       "ns1.Fragile": false,
       "ns1.Weight": 34
    }}

getParcels
    {"ns1.Parcel": [
      {
        "ns1.ParcelID": 1,
        "ns1.Fragile": true,
        "ns1.Weight": 100},
      {
        "ns1.ParcelID": 2,
        "ns1.Fragile": false,
        "ns1.Weight": 1000}
    ]}

Since the ns1 prefix is "random" (it's changed on me several times) I
wanted to define my own static prefix so I added a namespace map to the
JSONProvider and get these results

getParcel
    {"p.Parcel": {
       "p.ParcelID": 26,
       "p.Fragile": false,
       "p.Weight": 34
    }}

getParcels
    {"ns1.Parcel": [
      {
        "p.ParcelID": 1,
        "p.Fragile": true,
        "p.Weight": 100},
      {
        "p.ParcelID": 2,
        "p.Fragile": false,
        "p.Weight": 1000}
    ]}

The return of the single item came across as I expected (everything with a
single prefix p) but the List return still had the collection node with the
random ns1 prefix. Since that didn't work the way I wanted, I removed the
namespace map and added <property name="ignoreNamespaces" value="true"/>
and got these results

getParcel
    {"Parcel": {
       "ParcelID": 26,
       "Fragile": false,
       "Weight": 34
    }}

getParcels
    {"ns1.Parcel": [
      {"Parcel":    {
        "ParcelID": 1,
        "Fragile": true,
        "Weight": 100}},
      {"Parcel":    {
        "ParcelID": 2,
        "Fragile": false,
        "Weight": 1000}}
    ]}

Again, the single item came across fine but the List return wasn't what I
expected at all. I also tried to fool with some of the other options but
nothing I could try seemed to work. I want to get rid of the ns1 prefix on
the List wrapper element but can't figure it out.

Thanks,
Chris