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I have created a page where I want to get the JSON response from a JSF page, but when i try to get page it shows me whole html page.
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>
<title>Facelet Title</title></head><body>
[{"value": "21", "name": "Mick Jagger"},{"value": "43", "name": "Johnny Storm"},{"value": "46", "name": "Richard Hatch"},{"value": "54", "name": "Kelly Slater"},{"value": "55", "name": "Rudy Hamilton"},{"value": "79", "name": "Michael Jordan"}]
</body></html>
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JSF is a MVC framework generating HTML, not some kind of a REST web service framework. You're essentially abusing JSF as a web service. Your concrete problem is simply caused by placing <html> tags and so on in the view file yourself.
If you really insist, then you can always achieve this by using <ui:composition> instead of <html>. You also need to make sure that the right content type of application/json is been used, this defaults in JSF namely to text/html.
<ui:composition
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets">
<f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{bean.renderJson}" />
</ui:composition>
with
public void renderJson() throws IOException {
FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
ExternalContext externalContext = facesContext.getExternalContext();
externalContext.setResponseContentType("application/json");
externalContext.setResponseCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
externalContext.getResponseOutputWriter().write(someJsonString);
facesContext.responseComplete();
}
But I strongly recommend to look at JAX-RS or JAX-WS instead of abusing JSF as a JSON web service. Use the right tool for the job.
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