[Restlet Android] Object representation selection (application/x-java-serialized-object vs. application/json)

[Thilo-Alexander Ginkel]

Hi there,

I am currently having some difficulties to get @Posts with Restlet
Android 2.1-RC1 to use my preferred ("application/json") content
representation.

Let's start with some details: I have the following resource interface:

-- 8< --
  public interface EventResource {

      @Post("json")
      void record(Event event);
  }
-- 8< --

When making a call to the record method...

-- 8< --
  final ClientResource clientResource = new
ClientResource(Constants.API_URL_EVENTS);
  clientResource.setChallengeResponse(ChallengeScheme.HTTP_BASIC, ...);
  final EventResource eventResource = clientResource.wrap(EventResource.class);
  eventResource.record(event);
-- 8< --

...Restlet picks "application/x-java-serialized-object" as the object
representation, which my server does not understand.

I have registered the Jackson extension with Restlet:

-- 8< --
  Engine.getInstance().getRegisteredConverters().add(new JacksonConverter());
-- 8< --

If I clear the list of registered converters before registering the
JacksonConverter, Restlet picks the right representation
(JacksonRepresentation, application/json).

Shouldn't this work automagically without clearing the default
converters due to the @Post annotation's "json" value?

Thanks,
Thilo

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[Thilo-Alexander Ginkel]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:05, Thilo-Alexander Ginkel <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I have registered the Jackson extension with Restlet:
>
> -- 8< --
>  Engine.getInstance().getRegisteredConverters().add(new JacksonConverter());
> -- 8< --

Just a brief follow-up question: Is there a way to influence the
Jackson configuration through the Restlet extension? Specifically, I
would like to set the SerializationConfig.Feature.WRAP_ROOT_VALUE
configuration option on the converter.

Thanks,
Thilo

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[Tim Peierls]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Thilo-Alexander Ginkel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Just a brief follow-up question: Is there a way to influence the

Jackson configuration through the Restlet extension? Specifically, I
would like to set the SerializationConfig.Feature.WRAP_ROOT_VALUE
configuration option on the converter.

See these threads:

http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2705064

http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2703289

--tim

[rhbgames]

Sorry for resurrecting this old thread, but I was wondering if you found a better solution than:
Engine.getInstance().getRegisteredConverters().clear();

My post(someObj) were working fine - being handled by the @Post("json") method in the interface (using Restlet 2.2 GAE edition on the server, Restlet 2.2 Android on the client).  

Then for Android reasons I had to change SomeObj to implement Serializable.  This seemed to change the media type to application/x-java-serialized-object which caused my post(someObj) to return a 415 error.

Clearing the converters fixed the problem, but I was just curious if you found a better solution.

Thanks!
RB

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[rhbgames]

Engine.getInstance().getRegisteredConverters().add(0, new JacksonConverter());

Worked for me - putting the JacksonConverter first seemed to restore the "automagic" :)
RB

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[Tim Peierls]

Another way to do it is to replace the built-in converter with my custom converter. See this message:

http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsMessageId=2716118&dsForumId=4447

There has been some activity regarding scoring. Here's a recent issue (which points back to an original older issue):

https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/issues/255

There have also been some bug fixes regarding scoring, but I don't have pointers to those.

--tim

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Richard Berger <[hidden email]> wrote:

Engine.getInstance().getRegisteredConverters().add(0, new JacksonConverter());

Worked for me - putting the JacksonConverter first seemed to restore the "automagic" :)
RB

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