spring mvc rest response json and xml

Question

I have the requirement to return the result from the database either as a string in xml-structure or as json-structure. I\'ve got a solution, but I don\'t know, if this one

Answer 1

If someone using Spring Boot for XML response then add the following dependency,

    com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat
    jackson-dataformat-xml

And in the model class you are returning add the @XmlRootElement.

@Entity
@Table(name = "customer")
@XmlRootElement
public class Customer {
      //... fields and getters, setters
}

and in your controller add produces="application/xml". This will produce the response in xml format.