I'm using the latest versions of Jersey and Guice but I'm see runtime errors when trying to return a collection or map. I thought Jackson could do that automatically?
Here's the exact error:
A message body writer for Java class java.util.ArrayList, and Java type java.util.Collection<java.lang.String>, and MIME media type application/json was not found.
The registered message body writers compatible with the MIME media type are:
application/json ->
com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONJAXBElementProvider$App
com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONArrayProvider$App
com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONObjectProvider$App
com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONRootElementProvider$App
com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONListElementProvider$App
*/* ->
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.FormProvider
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.StringProvider
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.ByteArrayProvider
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.FileProvider
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.InputStreamProvider
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.DataSourceProvider
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.XMLJAXBElementProvider$General
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.ReaderProvider
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.DocumentProvider
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.StreamingOutputProvider
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.SourceProvider$SourceWriter
com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONJAXBElementProvider$General
com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONArrayProvider$General
com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONObjectProvider$General
com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONWithPaddingProvider
com.sun.jersey.server.impl.template.ViewableMessageBodyWriter
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.XMLRootElementProvider$General
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.XMLListElementProvider$General
com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONRootElementProvider$General
com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONListElementProvider$General
com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JacksonProviderProxy
To start, here is my guice module
My rest resource is very simple:
My Gradle build config file looks like this (I assume gradle is not relevant here but the deps defined may be?)
I'm actually running this through gradle, so my command looks something like gradle jettyRun and I should also note that I'm using
java 1.8. I was assuming those things wouldn't matter here, but I'm sort of at a loss for explanations since I thought these frameworks would support json collections out of the box. Is that not the case?