How to register a Jackson provider with a Wink client?

Question

I am trying to set up a toy application (which may someday refer to a real application). I have problems with Wink and Jackson. I have two applications: one starts the wink server on the pier and seems to provide some JSON data just fine; one launches client-client on the pier and receives JSON data just fine. The problem is to automatically deserialize the JSON data back to my Java bean.

Here is the code that I use in my client action:

RestClient client = new RestClient();
Resource resource = client.resource("http://localhost:8081/helloworld");
User user = resource.accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).get(User.class);

Here's the error I get when I try to run the Struts action:

java.lang.RuntimeException: No javax.ws.rs.ext.MessageBodyReader found for type class my.package.structure.User and media type application/json. Verify that all entity providers are correctly registered.
org.apache.wink.client.internal.handlers.ClientResponseImpl.readEntity(ClientResponseImpl.java:123)
org.apache.wink.client.internal.handlers.ClientResponseImpl.getEntity(ClientResponseImpl.java:65)
org.apache.wink.client.internal.handlers.ClientResponseImpl.getEntity(ClientResponseImpl.java:52)
org.apache.wink.client.internal.ResourceImpl.invoke(ResourceImpl.java:186)
org.apache.wink.client.internal.ResourceImpl.get(ResourceImpl.java:294)
my.package.structure.action.HelloWorldAction.execute(HelloWorldAction.java:29)
...

If I replaced the last line in the first code fragment with the next line, everything will be fine and dandy.

String message = resource.accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).get(String.class);
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
User user = mapper.readValue(message, User.class);

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Answer 1

1. , javax.ws.rs.core.Application, .

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Set;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;

public class ClientApplication extends Application {

    private Set<Object> singletons = Collections.emptySet();

    @Override
    public Set<Object> getSingletons() {
        return singletons;
    }

    public void setSingletons(final Set<Object> singletons) {
        this.singletons = singletons;
    }
}

2: org.apache.wink.client.ClientConfig org.apache.wink.client.RestClient. org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJsonProvider .

ClientApplication clientApplication = new ClientApplication();
Set<Object> s = new HashSet<Object>();
s.add(new JacksonJsonProvider());
clientApplication.setSingletons(s);
ClientConfig clientConfig = new ClientConfig().applications(clientApplication);
RestClient restClient = new RestClient(clientConfig);

3: org.apache.wink.client.Resource, get(Class<T> responseEntity), .

Resource resource = client.resource("http://localhost:8081/helloworld");
User user = resource.accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).get(User.class);

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Answer 2

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  @Before
public void setup(){

    javax.ws.rs.core.Application app = new javax.ws.rs.core.Application() {
        public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
            Set<Class<?>> classes = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
            classes.add(JacksonJaxbJsonProvider.class);
            return classes;
        }

    };
    //create auth handler
    clientConfig = new ClientConfig();
    clientConfig.applications(app);
    BasicAuthSecurityHandler basicAuthSecurityHandler = new BasicAuthSecurityHandler();
    basicAuthSecurityHandler.setUserName(USERNAME);
    basicAuthSecurityHandler.setPassword(PASSWORD); 
    clientConfig.handlers(basicAuthSecurityHandler);
    //create client usin auth and provider
    client = new RestClient(clientConfig);

}

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@Test
public void aReadWriteTokenCanBeCreatedAsRequested(){ 
    ClientResponse response = client.resource(resourceUrlToken).contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).post(readAndWriteToken);
    assertEquals("Could not create token needed for test",200,response.getStatusCode());
    readAndWriteToken = response.getEntity(TokenResource.class);
    assertNotNull("Returned token does not have UUID",readAndWriteToken.getUuid());

}

maven, , ( ):

<!-- TEST DEPENDENCIES -->
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.1</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-jaxrs</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.1</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.1</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-xc</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.1</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>

Answer 3

I would like to help with the registration; but in terms of annotations, I don’t think you need Jackson to try and deserialize the value. If you are missing something you need, you will get another exception.