Using Jackson as Jersey client serializer

Question

Is it possible to use Jackson as the serializer/marshaller for JSON data instead of JAXB when using Jersey Client API?

If so how to configure it?

Answer 1

I ran into similar issue, but for me none of the suggestions given here worked. What worked for me was below piece of code:

import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientBuilder;
import javax.ws.rs.client.Client;
...

ClientBuilder clientBuilder = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
clientBuilder.register(JacksonFeature.class);
...
Client client = clientBuilder.build();

The key change was usage of JacksonFeature.class - it comes from jersey-media-json-jackson-x.yy.jar

I got clue to use this solution from this article - http://www.baeldung.com/jersey-jax-rs-client