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

For jersey 2.22.2 and Jackson 2.7.2 gradle dependencies are:

dependencies {
    compile("com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs:jackson-jaxrs-json-provider:2.7.2")
    compile("org.glassfish.jersey.core:jersey-client:2.22.2")
}

Sample client code is:

final String    name    = "world";
final Client    client  = ClientBuilder.newClient().register(JacksonJaxbJsonProvider.class);
final WebTarget target  = client.target("http://localhost:8080").path("hello").path(name);
final Message   message = target.request().get(Message.class);

System.out.println(message.getWelcomeMessage()); // hello world