I want to test a client which is defined like:

@POST
@Path(“{membershipExternalId}/query”)
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
@Produces(“multipart/mixed”)
public MultipartOutput query(@PathParam(“membershipExternalId”) final String membershipExternalId,
//others param ){
//code}

I receive this strange error:

org.jboss.resteasy.client.ClientResponseFailure: Unable to find a MessageBodyReader of content-type multipart/mixed;boundary=”8265ccfc-6ff2-49b7-ba57-6a8149020e4d” and type class org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.multipart.MultipartOutput

when i try to take the response in a MultipartOutput variable.

Any help will be higly appreciate.

Thanks.

You have to create a message body reader, like in this example (this solved that problem):

ClientResponse response = request.get(String.class);
ResteasyProviderFactory.getInstance().addBuiltInMessageBodyReader(new DefaultTextPlain());

if (response.getStatus() == 200) {// OK!
String str = response.getEntity();
System.out.println(str);
}

I’ve been working away with the RestEasy Library for a while now and have run into a problem with unmarshalling vanilla java.util.list. I used the RestEasy documentation as my source of examples, but have apparently misunderstood something. I have dropped my code below in hopes that you might be able to inform me as to what I have done wrong.

this is the driving code:

public List getSearchResults( String searchType, String uriParam )
{
List concepts = null;

try
{
ListInterface proxy =
ProxyFactory.create( ListInterface.class, uriRoot + “/exactmatch” + “/skin”);
ClientResponse<List> response = (ClientResponse) proxy.getList();
concepts =
(List)
response.getEntity( new GenericType<List>(){} );
}
catch( Exception e )
{
e.printStackTrace();
}

return concepts;
}

this is the interface

public interface ListInterface
{
@GET
@Produces(“multipart/*”)
@PartType(“application/xml”)
public Response getList();
}

What I feel are the two most significant elements of the output

110 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Adding built in provider org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.multipart.ListMultipartReader

org.jboss.resteasy.client.ClientResponseFailure: Unable to find a MessageBodyReader of content-type text/html;charset=utf-8 and type java.util.List

resteasy.use.builtin.providers

As for your 1st problem, yup there is no javassist jar provided with distribution. So much for trusting maven to pull in transitive dependencies. I can’t believe I missed that, not sure what changed because it used to pull in the dependencies.

resteasy.scan.providers
false

And, yet I still see the following emitted to the console when starting Tomcat.

Oct 31, 2008 5:02:05 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.14
47 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Added DataSourceProvider
47 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Added DefaultTextPlain
78 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Added JAXBXmlRootElementProvider
78 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Added JAXBElementProvider
94 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Added JAXBXmlTypeProvider
94 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Adding org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.IIOImageProvider
94 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Adding org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.json.JsonJAXBElementProvider
109 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Adding org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.json.JsonXmlTypeProvider
109 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Adding org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.json.JsonXmlRootElementProvider
172 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Adding org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.MimeMultipartProvider
172 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Adding org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.YamlProvider
187 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Adding org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.fastinfoset.FastinfoSetXmlRootElementProvider
187 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Adding org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.fastinfoset.FastinfoSetJAXBElementProvider
187 [main] INFO org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers – Adding org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.fastinfoset.FastinfoSetXmlTypeProvider

I’m deploying into a Tomcat 6.0.14 container.

1. When I set the following in the web.xml deployment descriptor:

resteasy.scan
true

Upon starting the server I get the following error:

Oct 31, 2008 4:09:31 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.ResteasyBootstrap
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.resteasy.test.smoke.SimpleResource

Looks like a smoke test class is somehow being looked for – and not found by the bootstrapper.

2. The download appears to be missing a required .jar file. When starting up – RESTeasy looks for the javassist.jar; I went ahead and downloaded a copy and dropped into the WEB-INF/lib directory of my project and everything worked fine.

In general though – things are looking pretty good – I’m liking the JAX-RS specification (annotations) in general, and RESTeasy in particular. Looking at Jersey and CXF as well; both seem to be pushing EJB/JEE and/or Spring heavily. I’m still one of those people who likes to use the API separately – get comfy with it – and then see how I want to work persistence, and dependency injection into the mix.