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Chapter 47. Returning Information to the Consumer
Abstract
RESTful requests require that at least an HTTP response code be returned to the consumer. In many cases, a request can be satisfied by returning a plain JAXB object or a
GenericEntity object. When the resource method needs to return additional metadata along with the response entity, JAX-RS resource methods can return a Response object containing any needed HTTP headers or other metadata.
47.1. Return Types
The information returned to the consumer determines the exact type of object a resource method returns. This may seem obvious, but the mapping between Java return objects and what is returned to a RESTful consumer is not one-to-one. At a minimum, RESTful consumers need to be returned a valid HTTP return code in addition to any response entity body. The mapping of the data contained within a Java object to a response entity is effected by the MIME types a consumer is willing to accept.
To address the issues involved in mapping Java object to RESTful response messages, resource methods are allowed to return four types of Java constructs:
- common Java types return basic information with HTTP return codes determined by the JAX-RS runtime.
- JAXB objects return complex information with HTTP return codes determined by the JAX-RS runtime.
- JAX-RS return complex information with a programmatically determined HTTP return status. The
Responseobject also allows HTTP headers to be specified. - JAX-RS return complex information with HTTP return codes determined by the JAX-RS runtime. The
GenericEnitityobject provides more information to the runtime components serializing the data.
