restful webservice with xml or json as parameter

Question

I have a simple question the answer to which I have been trying to find out over the restricted internet connection in my office but to no avail.

1) How to create a restful web service in java preferably using netbeans that accepts xml and/or json as the parameter and how do I process it.

2) How do I call these web services. I mean how can we pass xml in the url? Or is there any other way?

I would prefer using jersey if I have to use APIs. I am sorry if the question is too generic, but I need all the knowledge I can get on this in relatively short time.

Answer 1

You can do this. I currently am working on webservices that do this.

Use these annotations:

@POST
@Consumes({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
@Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
public Object create(Object object);

On the objects you want to pass, you can annotation from the javax.xml.bind.annotation package. This way, java can marshal/unmarshal these itself.

@XmlRootElement(name = "Something")
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.NONE)
public class A {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 6478918140990163091L;

  @XmlElementWrapper(name = "collectionWrapper")
  @XmlElement(name = "collectionItem")
  private final Collection<Object> domainCollection = new LinkedList<Object>();
}

To access it do something like this:

final Builder request = ClientBuilder.newClient().target(getBaseUri()).path("url").request(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML);
return request.post(Entity.entity(param, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)).readEntity(A.class);

Follow this tutorial for examples: http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/REST/article.html