A message body writer for Java type, class myPackage.B, and MIME media type, application/octet-stream, was not found

Question

I am new at RESTful webservices and was trying to update my @OneToMany relationship from a standalone client application, but I am not able to do that. I am usi

Answer 1

Include this dependencies in your POM.xml and run Maven -> Update

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-json</artifactId>
    <version>1.18.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
   <groupId>com.owlike</groupId>
   <artifactId>genson</artifactId>
   <version>0.99</version>
</dependency>

Answer 2

You need to specify the @Provider that @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML) from B.class
An add the package of your MessageBodyWriter<B.class> to your /WEB_INF/web.xml as:

<init-param>
<param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
<param-value>
your.providers.package
</param-value>
</init-param>

Answer 3

This can also happen if you've recently upgraded Ant. I was using Ant 1.8.4 on a project, and upgraded Ant to 1.9.4, and started to get this error when building a fat jar using Ant.

The solution for me was to downgrade back to Ant 1.8.4 for the command line and Eclipse using the process detailed here

Answer 4

Make sure that all these libs are in your class path:

compile(group: 'com.sun.jersey', name: 'jersey-core',        version: '1.19.4') 
compile(group: 'com.sun.jersey', name: 'jersey-server',      version: '1.19.4') 
compile(group: 'com.sun.jersey', name: 'jersey-servlet',     version: '1.19.4')
compile(group: 'com.sun.jersey', name: 'jersey-json',        version: '1.19.4')
compile(group: 'com.sun.jersey', name: 'jersey-client',      version: '1.19.4')
compile(group: 'javax.ws.rs', name: 'jsr311-api', version: '1.1.1')
compile(group: 'org.codehaus.jackson', name: 'jackson-core-asl', version: '1.9.2')
compile(group: 'org.codehaus.jackson', name: 'jackson-mapper-asl', version: '1.9.2')
compile(group: 'org.codehaus.jackson', name: 'jackson-core-asl',   version: '1.9.2')
compile(group: 'org.codehaus.jackson', name: 'jackson-jaxrs',      version: '1.9.2')
compile(group: 'org.codehaus.jackson', name: 'jackson-xc',         version: '1.9.2')

Add "Pojo Mapping" and "Jackson Provider" to the jersey client config:

ClientConfig clientConfig = new DefaultClientConfig();
clientConfig.getFeatures().put(JSONConfiguration.FEATURE_POJO_MAPPING, Boolean.TRUE);
clientConfig.getClasses().add(JacksonJsonProvider.class);

This solve to me!

ClientResponse response = null;

response = webResource
        .type(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
        .accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
        .get(ClientResponse.class);


if (response.getStatus() == Response.Status.OK.getStatusCode()) {

    MyClass myclass = response.getEntity(MyClass.class);
    System.out.println(myclass);
}