[CXF-3247] CXF JAX-RS does not recognize MessageBodyReader/MessageBodyWriter with no generic parameters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.2, 2.4
• Component/s: JAX-RS
• Estimated Complexity: Moderate
• Assignee: Sergey Beryozkin
• Reporter: Glen Mazza
• Created: 15/Jan/11 22:38
• Updated: 21/Jan/11 18:14
• Resolved: 17/Jan/11 18:04

Description

Chapter 19, Example 6_02 (page 230) from Bill Burke's RESTful Java with JAX-RS book is working with RESTEasy but not CXF (I'm using 2.3.2-SNAPSHOT). This example is freely available in the RESTEasy download[1].

This example creates a new MessageBodyReader and MessageBodyWriter for exchanging Java objects directly using REST.

Steps to duplicate:

1.) After downloading and extracting RESTEasy and navigating to this folder: resteasy-jaxrs-2.1.0.GA/examples/oreilly-workbook/ex06_2 , type mvn clean install. You'll see a before/after response using the RESTEasy library:

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T E S T S
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Running com.restfully.shop.test.CustomerResourceTest

• • • Create a new Customer ***
      15.01.2011 17:21:14 org.jboss.resteasy.spi.ResteasyDeployment
      INFO: Deploying javax.ws.rs.core.Application: class com.restfully.shop.services.ShoppingApplication
      15.01.2011 17:21:14 org.jboss.resteasy.spi.ResteasyDeployment
      INFO: Adding singleton resource com.restfully.shop.services.CustomerResource from Application javax.ws.rs.core.Application
      Created customer 1
      Location: http://localhost:9095/customers/1
    • GET Created Customer **
      Content-Type: application/x-java-serialized-object
      Customer {id=1, firstName='Bill', lastName='Burke', street='256 Clarendon Street', city='Boston', state='MA', zip='02115', country='USA'}
      • After Update ***
        Content-Type: application/x-java-serialized-object
        Customer {id=1, firstName='William', lastName='Burke', street='256 Clarendon Street', city='Boston', state='MA', zip='02115', country='USA'}

        Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.344 sec

2.) Convert the sample to using CXF's version of JAX-RS by making the following two changes (I've used these two steps with success in nearly all the other examples up to this one):

– Switching the servlet in the web.xml:

<servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.servlet.CXFNonSpringJaxrsServlet</servlet-class>

<!--servlet-class>

org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher

</servlet-class-->

– Switching the dependency in the pom.xml:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<!--dependency>

<groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>

<artifactId>resteasy-jaxrs</artifactId>

<version>2.1.0.GA</version>

</dependency-->

3.) Running mvn clean install again will return this error:

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T E S T S
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Running com.restfully.shop.test.CustomerResourceTest

• • • Create a new Customer ***
      15.01.2011 17:22:52 org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFNonSpringServlet loadBusNoConfig
      INFO: Load the bus without application context
      15.01.2011 17:22:52 org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext prepareRefresh
      INFO: Refreshing org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.BusApplicationContext@23b561a2: startup date [Sat Jan 15 17:22:52 EST 2011]; root of context hierarchy
      15.01.2011 17:22:52 org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions
      INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml]
      15.01.2011 17:22:52 org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions
      INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-jaxrs-binding.xml]
      15.01.2011 17:22:52 org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions
      INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-xml.xml]
      15.01.2011 17:22:52 org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions
      INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-http.xml]
      15.01.2011 17:22:52 org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory preInstantiateSingletons
      INFO: Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@2f78743b: defining beans [cxf,org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.BusApplicationListener,org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.BusWiringBeanFactoryPostProcessor,org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.Jsr250BeanPostProcessor,org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.BusExtensionPostProcessor,org.apache.cxf.resource.ResourceManager,org.apache.cxf.configuration.Configurer,org.apache.cxf.binding.BindingFactoryManager,org.apache.cxf.transport.DestinationFactoryManager,org.apache.cxf.transport.ConduitInitiatorManager,org.apache.cxf.wsdl.WSDLManager,org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseManager,org.apache.cxf.workqueue.WorkQueueManager,org.apache.cxf.buslifecycle.BusLifeCycleManager,org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ServerRegistry,org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ServerLifeCycleManager,org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientLifeCycleManager,org.apache.cxf.transports.http.QueryHandlerRegistry,org.apache.cxf.endpoint.EndpointResolverRegistry,org.apache.cxf.headers.HeaderManager,org.apache.cxf.catalog.OASISCatalogManager,org.apache.cxf.service.factory.FactoryBeanListenerManager,org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ServiceContractResolverRegistry,org.apache.cxf.binding.xml.XMLBindingFactory,org.apache.cxf.transport.http.policy.HTTPClientAssertionBuilder,org.apache.cxf.transport.http.policy.HTTPServerAssertionBuilder,org.apache.cxf.transport.http.policy.NoOpPolicyInterceptorProvider,org.apache.cxf.transport.http.ClientOnlyHTTPTransportFactory]; root of factory hierarchy
      15.01.2011 17:22:53 org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.AbstractCXFServlet replaceDestinationFactory
      INFO: Replaced the http destination factory with servlet transport factory
      15.01.2011 17:22:53 org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.utils.ResourceUtils checkMethodDispatcher
      WARNUNG: No resource methods have been found for resource class com.restfully.shop.services.JavaMarshaller
      15.01.2011 17:22:53 org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ServerImpl initDestination
      INFO: Setting the server's publish address to be /
      15.01.2011 17:22:53 org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.utils.JAXRSUtils readFromMessageBody
      WARNUNG: No message body reader has been found for request class Customer, ContentType : application/x-java-serialized-object.
      15.01.2011 17:22:53 org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.impl.WebApplicationExceptionMapper toResponse
      WARNUNG: WebApplicationException has been caught : no cause is available
      Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.919 sec <<< FAILURE!

Results :

Failed tests:
testCustomerResource(com.restfully.shop.test.CustomerResourceTest)

Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/resteasy/files/Resteasy%20JAX-RS/