Root element name in collections returned by RESTEasy

Question

I\'m using JAX-RS via RestEasy in JBoss AS 6. When my JAX-RS resource returns a collection of items (e.g. via a List), RESTEasy always uses the name collection

Answer 1

Appeared to be a case of RTFM: RestEasy docs - Arrays and Collections of JAXB Objects

So, if we wanted to output this XML

<foo:list xmlns:foo="http://foo.org">
    <customer><name>bill</name></customer>
    <customer><name>monica</name></customer>
</foo:list>

We would use the @Wrapped annotation as follows:

@GET
@Path("list")
@Produces("application/xml")
@Wrapped(element="list", namespace="http://foo.org", prefix="foo")
public List<Customer> getCustomerSet() { ... }

It's thus possible via the @Wrapped annotation. It's a RESTEasy specific one, but this will do for now.

Leaving the question open in case someone has an even better solution (still looking for a global interceptor orso that lets RESTEasy do what Jersey does).