getting http 415, Unsupported Media Type using text/xml

Question

I have a jersey endpoint(JAX-RS) that I'm trying to hit with a text/xml req. I'm getting back an http 415 and I don't understand why. Here is the info. Any ideas? Thanks.

@Path("/bid")
@Produces("text/xml;charset=ISO-8859-1")
@Consumes({"text/xml", "application/xml"})
@Resource
public class BidController {

@RolesAllowed("blah")
@POST
public Response bid(final HttpServletRequest request) {

I am hitting it via Postman(REST client) and sending {"Content-Type":"text/xml"}

My POST body is definitely well formed xml.

Answer 1

You are getting a 415 response because JAX-RS does not know how to convert incoming XML into a HttpServletRequest.

If you really want access to the request, then you need to annotate it with @javax.ws.rs.core.Context:

@RolesAllowed("blah")
@POST
public Response bid(@Context final HttpServletRequest request) {

However, as you say you're hitting it with text/xml, then you may actually want:

@POST
public Response bid(final MyRequest request) {
    ...
}

where MyRequest is declared something like:

@XmlRootElement
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class MyRequest {

     @XmlElement
     int field1;

     @XmlElement
     String field2;

     ...
}

which corresponds to XML like:

<MyRequest>
    <field1>11327</field1>
    <field2>some string
</MyRequest>

The JAX-RS specification requires implementations to be able to decode incoming text/xml and encode outgoing text/xml via JAXB.