RESTEasy doesn't recognize custom message body writer

java, jax-rs, resteasy

Solution

Based on your code above it would appear that your `CSVMessageBodyWriter` is being called, but it is failing your `isWriteable` check.

Your `isWriteable` check is always going to return false. You are checking if `JaxbList` is assignable from `CSVSerializer`. This is always going to fail and your `CSVMessageBodyWriter` will not be deemed able to handle `text/csv`.

Try changing your isWriteable method to the following:

public boolean isWriteable(Class<?> type, Type genericType, Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType) 
{
    return true;
}

This will serialize all `text/csv` annotated methods. If you want to constrain it to `JaxbList` then you can do something like this:

public boolean isWriteable(Class<?> type, Type genericType, Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType) 
{
    ParameterizedType paramType = (ParameterizedType) genericType;

    if(paramType.getRawType().equals(JaxbList.class))
    {
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}

Here is a simple working example of configuring a custom `MessageBodyWriter`:

Application

public class ProductGuideApplication extends Application
{
    private Set<Object> singletons = new HashSet<Object>();
    private Set<Class<?>> classes = new HashSet<Class<?>>();

    public ProductGuideApplication() 
    { 
        singletons.add(new CSVMessageBodyWriter());
        classes.add(FooResource.class);
    }

    @Override
    public Set<Object> getSingletons()
    { 
        return singletons;
    }

    @Override
    public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() 
    {
        return classes;
    }
}

Resource

@Path("/foo")
public class FooResource
{
    @GET
    @Produces("text/csv")
    public List<Consumer> getConsumers()
    {
        Consumer consumer1 = new Consumer();
        consumer1.setId("1234");
        consumer1.setGender("Male");

        Consumer consumer2 = new Consumer();
        consumer2.setId("2345");
        consumer2.setGender("Male");

        List<Consumer> consumers = new ArrayList<Consumer>();
        consumers.add(consumer1);
        consumers.add(consumer2);

        return consumers;
    }
}

MessageBodyWriter

@Provider
@Produces("text/csv")
public class CSVMessageBodyWriter implements MessageBodyWriter<List<Consumer>>
{
    @Override
    public boolean isWriteable(Class<?> type, Type genericType, Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType) 
    {
        ParameterizedType paramType = (ParameterizedType) genericType;

        if(paramType.getRawType().equals(List.class))
        {
            if(paramType.getActualTypeArguments()[0].equals(Consumer.class))
            {
                return true;
            }
        }

        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public long getSize(List<Consumer> t, Class<?> type, Type genericType, Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType) 
    {
        return 0;
    }

    @Override
    public void writeTo(List<Consumer> t, Class<?> type, Type genericType,
            Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType,
            MultivaluedMap<String, Object> httpHeaders,
            OutputStream entityStream) throws IOException,
            WebApplicationException 
    {
        //Write your CSV to entityStream here.
    }
}

Problem

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