Does roo generated controllers support Content Negotiation for REST?

[jiang_zhu]

In my project, RESTful urls need to handle different types of response (html/txt, application/xml & application/json for my case). Does ROO generated project give this functionality already?


Regards,
Jiang Zhu

[Stefan Schmidt]

Jiang,

What you are looking for is Springs new ContentNegotiatingViewResolver which allows you to configure the document types. It is documented here http://tinyurl.com/kpexuu and allows you to render views in XML, JSON, ATOM and a couple more.

This feature is not currently enabled by default in Roo managed applications but can be easily added to the webmvc-config.xml file. Keep in mind when you setup JSON with the Jackson library you will need to deal with cyclic references.

HTH,
Stefan

[jiang_zhu]

Stefan,

Thanks for your reply, the info is very useful.

Regards,
Jiang Zhu