[CXF-3617] Automatic Type Converters for Restful Clients

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Component/s: JAX-RS
• Estimated Complexity: Moderate
• Assignee: Sergey Beryozkin
• Reporter: Shaun Elliott
• Created: 24/Jun/11 12:39
• Updated: 23/Nov/11 20:59
• Resolved: 22/Jul/11 17:07

Description

Given the following interface:

@POST
@Path( "execute" )
@Produces( "application/json" )
MyObject execute( MyObject myObject );

One must provide MessageBodyReader\Writer or face the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: .No message body writer found for class : class com.company.datatype.normal.MyObject.
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.ClientProxyImpl$BodyWriter.handleMessage(ClientProxyImpl.java:523)
    at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:263)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.ClientProxyImpl.doChainedInvocation(ClientProxyImpl.java:438)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.ClientProxyImpl.invoke(ClientProxyImpl.java:177)
    at $Proxy13.execute(Unknown Source)
    at com.company.JaxTestClient.main(JaxTestClient.java:26)

Other competing libraries (such as Restlet) support automatic type mapping out of the box via XStream and Jackson. Given CXF's compliance to JAX-RS it would be helpful if this boilerplate type code were given out of the box too.

See here for more information:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6312030/cxf-no-message-body-writer-found-for-class-automatically-mapping-non-simple-re