Commit c47edd15 authored by Stephane Nicoll's avatar Stephane Nicoll

Polish "Update instructions on how to use JAXB as XML renderer"

Closes gh-16005
parent 221ff8d6
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[[howto-write-an-xml-rest-service]]
=== Write an XML REST Service
If you have the Jackson XML extension (`jackson-dataformat-xml`) or JAXB on the classpath, you
If you have the Jackson XML extension (`jackson-dataformat-xml`) on the classpath, you
can use it to render XML responses. The previous example that we used for JSON would
work.
NOTE: To get the server to render XML instead of JSON, you might have to send an
`Accept: text/xml` header (or use a browser).
==== Jackson XML
To use the Jackson XML renderer, add the following dependency to your project:
work. To use the Jackson XML renderer, add the following dependency to your project:
[source,xml,indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes,attributes"]
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</dependency>
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==== JAXB
If Jackson's XML extension is not available, JAXB is tried next,
with the additional requirement of having `MyThing` annotated as
`@XmlRootElement`, as shown in the following example:
If Jackson's XML extension is not available and JAXB is available, XML can be rendered
with the additional requirement of having `MyThing` annotated as `@XmlRootElement`, as
shown in the following example:
[source,java,indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes,attributes"]
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......@@ -1186,7 +1179,8 @@ with the additional requirement of having `MyThing` annotated as
}
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To use JAXB as XML renderer, add the following dependency to your project:
JAXB is only available out of the box with Java 8. If you're using a more recent java
generation, add the following dependency to your project:
[source,xml,indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes,attributes"]
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</dependency>
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NOTE: To get the server to render XML instead of JSON, you might have to send an
`Accept: text/xml` header (or use a browser).
[[howto-customize-the-jackson-objectmapper]]
=== Customize the Jackson ObjectMapper
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