[CXF-4217] Introduce Nullable annotations to override the default handling of empty payloads by JAXB providers

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.10, 2.4.7, 2.5.3, 2.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.10, 2.4.7, 2.5.3, 2.6
• Component/s: JAX-RS
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Sergey Beryozkin
• Reporter: Sergey Beryozkin
• Created: 30/Mar/12 12:45
• Updated: 23/Apr/12 16:45
• Resolved: 30/Mar/12 16:28

Description

JAX-RS 1.1 requires JAXB providers to return 400 in case of empty payloads.

Users have to override the provider in order to get null injected instead, in cases when having empty payloads does not constitute an error for their application which is inconvenient. A simple Nullable annotation (idea: Anthony Muller) can help