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Table of Contents
Preface ............................................................................................................................ xvi
1. Getting Started ................................................................................................................ 1
1.1. Creating a New Project from Maven Archetype .......................................................... 1
1.2. Exploring the Newly Created Project ........................................................................ 1
1.3. Running the Project ............................................................................................... 3
1.4. Creating a JavaEE Web Application ......................................................................... 5
1.5. Creating a Web Application that can be deployed on Heroku ........................................ 6
1.5.1. Deploy it on Heroku ................................................................................... 8
1.6. Exploring Other Jersey Examples ........................................................................... 11
2. Modules and dependencies .............................................................................................. 12
2.1. Java SE Compatibility .......................................................................................... 12
2.2. Introduction to Jersey dependencies ........................................................................ 12
2.3. Common Jersey Use Cases ................................................................................... 12
2.3.1. Servlet based application on Glassfish .......................................................... 12
2.3.2. Servlet based server-side application ............................................................ 13
2.3.3. Client application on JDK .......................................................................... 13
2.3.4. Server-side application on supported containers .............................................. 14
2.4. List of modules ................................................................................................... 15
3. JAX-RS Application, Resources and Sub-Resources ............................................................. 37
3.1. Root Resource Classes ......................................................................................... 37
3.1.1. @Path ..................................................................................................... 37
3.1.2. @GET, @PUT, @POST, @DELETE, ... (HTTP Methods) ............................... 38
3.1.3. @Produces ............................................................................................... 39
3.1.4. @Consumes ............................................................................................. 40
3.2. Parameter Annotations (@*Param) ......................................................................... 41
3.3. Sub-resources ..................................................................................................... 45
3.4. Life-cycle of Root Resource Classes ....................................................................... 48
3.5. Rules of Injection ................................................................................................ 49
3.6. Use of @Context ................................................................................................ 52
3.7. Programmatic resource model ................................................................................ 52
4. Application Deployment and Runtime Environments ............................................................ 53
4.1. Introduction ........................................................................................................ 53
4.2. JAX-RS Application Model .................................................................................. 53
4.3. Auto-Discoverable Features ................................................................................... 54
4.3.1. Configuring Feature Auto-discovery Mechanism ............................................ 54
4.4. Configuring the Classpath Scanning ....................................................................... 55
4.5. Java SE Deployment Environments ........................................................................ 57
4.5.1. HTTP servers ........................................................................................... 57
4.6. Creating programmatic JAX-RS endpoint ................................................................ 60
4.7. Servlet-based Deployment ..................................................................................... 60
4.7.1. Servlet 2.x Container ................................................................................. 60
4.7.2. Servlet 3.x Container ................................................................................. 62
4.7.3. Jersey Servlet container modules ................................................................. 66
4.8. Java EE Platform ................................................................................................ 67
4.8.1. Managed Beans ........................................................................................ 67
4.8.2. Context and Dependency Injection (CDI) ...................................................... 67
4.8.3. Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) ....................................................................... 68
4.8.4. Java EE Servers ........................................................................................ 68
4.9. OSGi ................................................................................................................. 69
4.9.1. Enabling the OSGi shell in Glassfish ............................................................ 70
4.9.2. WAB Example ......................................................................................... 71

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4.9.3. HTTP Service Example ............................................................................. 71

4.10. Other Environments ........................................................................................... 72
4.10.1. Oracle Java Cloud Service ........................................................................ 72
5. Client API .................................................................................................................... 74
5.1. Uniform Interface Constraint ................................................................................. 74
5.2. Ease of use and reusing JAX-RS artifacts ................................................................ 75
5.3. Overview of the Client API .................................................................................. 76
5.3.1. Getting started with the client API ............................................................... 76
5.3.2. Creating and configuring a Client instance ..................................................... 76
5.3.3. Targeting a web resource ........................................................................... 78
5.3.4. Identifying resource on WebTarget .............................................................. 78
5.3.5. Invoking a HTTP request ........................................................................... 79
5.3.6. Example summary .................................................................................... 80
5.4. Java instances and types for representations ............................................................. 81
5.4.1. Adding support for new representations ........................................................ 82
5.5. Client Transport Connectors .................................................................................. 82
5.6. Using client request and response filters .................................................................. 84
5.7. Closing connections ............................................................................................. 85
5.8. Injections into client providers ............................................................................... 85
5.9. Securing a Client ................................................................................................. 86
5.9.1. Http Authentication Support ....................................................................... 87
6. Reactive Jersey Client API .............................................................................................. 89
6.1. Motivation for Reactive Client Extension ................................................................ 89
6.2. Usage and Extension Modules ............................................................................... 94
6.3. Supported Reactive Libraries ................................................................................. 97
6.3.1. RxJava (Observable) .................................................................................. 97
6.3.2. Java 8 (CompletionStage and CompletableFuture) ........................................... 99
6.3.3. Guava (ListenableFuture and Futures) ......................................................... 101
6.3.4. JSR-166e (CompletableFuture) .................................................................. 102
6.4. Implementing Support for Custom Reactive Libraries (SPI) ....................................... 104
6.5. Examples ......................................................................................................... 106
7. Representations and Responses ....................................................................................... 107
7.1. Representations and Java Types ........................................................................... 107
7.2. Building Responses ............................................................................................ 108
7.3. WebApplicationException and Mapping Exceptions to Responses .............................. 109
7.4. Conditional GETs and Returning 304 (Not Modified) Responses ................................ 111
8. JAX-RS Entity Providers ............................................................................................... 113
8.1. Introduction ...................................................................................................... 113
8.2. How to Write Custom Entity Providers .................................................................. 113
8.2.1. MessageBodyWriter ................................................................................. 114
8.2.2. MessageBodyReader ................................................................................ 118
8.3. Entity Provider Selection .................................................................................... 120
8.4. Jersey MessageBodyWorkers API ................................................................... 123
8.5. Default Jersey Entity Providers ............................................................................ 124
9. Support for Common Media Type Representations ............................................................. 126
9.1. JSON ............................................................................................................... 126
9.1.1. Approaches to JSON Support .................................................................... 126
9.1.2. MOXy ................................................................................................... 129
9.1.3. Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P) ..................................................... 131
9.1.4. Jackson (1.x and 2.x) ............................................................................... 133
9.1.5. Jettison .................................................................................................. 135
9.1.6. @JSONP - JSON with Padding Support ....................................................... 139
9.2. XML ............................................................................................................... 141
9.2.1. Low level XML support ........................................................................... 141

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9.2.2. Getting started with JAXB ........................................................................ 142

9.2.3. POJOs ................................................................................................... 143
9.2.4. Using custom JAXBContext ...................................................................... 144
9.2.5. MOXy ................................................................................................... 145
9.3. Multipart .......................................................................................................... 146
9.3.1. Overview ............................................................................................... 146
9.3.2. Client .................................................................................................... 147
9.3.3. Server ................................................................................................... 149
10. Filters and Interceptors ................................................................................................ 152
10.1. Introduction ..................................................................................................... 152
10.2. Filters ............................................................................................................ 152
10.2.1. Server filters ......................................................................................... 152
10.2.2. Client filters ......................................................................................... 155
10.3. Interceptors ..................................................................................................... 155
10.4. Filter and interceptor execution order .................................................................. 157
10.5. Name binding .................................................................................................. 159
10.6. Dynamic binding ............................................................................................. 160
10.7. Priorities ......................................................................................................... 161
11. Asynchronous Services and Clients ................................................................................ 163
11.1. Asynchronous Server API .................................................................................. 163
11.1.1. Asynchronous Server-side Callbacks ......................................................... 165
11.1.2. Chunked Output .................................................................................... 166
11.2. Client API ...................................................................................................... 168
11.2.1. Asynchronous Client Callbacks ................................................................ 168
11.2.2. Chunked input ...................................................................................... 170
12. URIs and Links .......................................................................................................... 172
12.1. Building URIs ................................................................................................. 172
12.2. Resolve and Relativize ...................................................................................... 173
12.3. Link ............................................................................................................... 173
13. Declarative Hyperlinking ............................................................................................. 175
13.1. Dependency .................................................................................................... 175
13.2. Links in Representations ................................................................................... 175
13.3. Binding Template Parameters ............................................................................. 176
13.4. Conditional Link Injection ................................................................................. 176
13.5. List of Link Injection ........................................................................................ 177
13.6. Link Headers ................................................................................................... 177
13.7. Prevent Recursive Injection ................................................................................ 177
13.8. Configure and register ...................................................................................... 177
14. Programmatic API for Building Resources ...................................................................... 179
14.1. Introduction ..................................................................................................... 179
14.2. Programmatic Hello World example .................................................................... 179
14.2.1. Deployment of programmatic resources ..................................................... 181
14.3. Additional examples ......................................................................................... 182
14.4. Model processors ............................................................................................. 183
15. Server-Sent Events (SSE) Support ................................................................................. 185
15.1. What are Server-Sent Events .............................................................................. 185
15.2. When to use Server-Sent Events ......................................................................... 186
15.3. Jersey Server-Sent Events API ........................................................................... 186
15.4. Implementing SSE support in a JAX-RS resource .................................................. 187
15.4.1. Simple SSE resource method ................................................................... 187
15.4.2. Broadcasting with Jersey SSE .................................................................. 190
15.5. Consuming SSE events with Jersey clients ........................................................... 192
15.5.1. Reading SSE events with EventInput ................................................... 192
15.5.2. Asynchronous SSE processing with EventSource .................................... 193

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16. Security .................................................................................................................... 197

16.1. Securing server ................................................................................................ 197
16.1.1. SecurityContext ..................................................................................... 197
16.1.2. Authorization - securing resources ............................................................ 198
16.2. Client Security ................................................................................................. 200
16.3. OAuth Support ................................................................................................ 200
16.3.1. OAuth 1 ............................................................................................... 202
16.3.2. OAuth 2 Support ................................................................................... 206
17. WADL Support .......................................................................................................... 209
17.1. WADL introduction .......................................................................................... 209
17.2. Configuration .................................................................................................. 217
17.3. Extended WADL support .................................................................................. 218
18. Bean Validation Support .............................................................................................. 219
18.1. Bean Validation Dependencies ........................................................................... 219
18.2. Enabling Bean Validation in Jersey ..................................................................... 219
18.3. Configuring Bean Validation Support .................................................................. 220
18.4. Validating JAX-RS resources and methods ........................................................... 222
18.4.1. Constraint Annotations ........................................................................... 222
18.4.2. Annotation constraints and Validators ....................................................... 224
18.4.3. Entity Validation ................................................................................... 225
18.4.4. Annotation Inheritance ........................................................................... 226
18.5. @ValidateOnExecution ..................................................................................... 226
18.6. Injecting ......................................................................................................... 227
18.7. Error Reporting ............................................................................................... 228
18.7.1. ValidationError ..................................................................................... 229
18.8. Example ......................................................................................................... 231
19. Entity Data Filtering ................................................................................................... 232
19.1. Enabling and configuring Entity Filtering in your application ................................... 232
19.2. Components used to describe Entity Filtering concepts ........................................... 234
19.3. Using custom annotations to filter entities ............................................................ 236
19.3.1. Server-side Entity Filtering ...................................................................... 238
19.3.2. Client-side Entity Filtering ...................................................................... 240
19.4. Role-based Entity Filtering using (javax.annotation.security) annotations .... 241
19.5. Entity Filtering based on dynamic and configurable query parameters ........................ 241
19.6. Defining custom handling for entity-filtering annotations ......................................... 242
19.7. Supporting Entity Data Filtering in custom entity providers or frameworks .................. 243
19.8. Modules with support for Entity Data Filtering ...................................................... 244
19.9. Examples ........................................................................................................ 244
20. MVC Templates ......................................................................................................... 245
20.1. Viewable ........................................................................................................ 245
20.2. @Template ..................................................................................................... 246
20.2.1. Annotating Resource methods .................................................................. 246
20.2.2. Annotating Resource classes .................................................................... 246
20.3. Absolute vs. Relative template reference .............................................................. 247
20.3.1. Relative template reference ..................................................................... 247
20.3.2. Absolute template reference ..................................................................... 248
20.4. Handling errors with MVC ................................................................................ 248
20.4.1. MVC & Bean Validation ........................................................................ 249
20.5. Registration and Configuration ........................................................................... 250
20.6. Supported templating engines ............................................................................. 251
20.6.1. Mustache .............................................................................................. 251
20.6.2. Freemarker ........................................................................................... 252
20.6.3. JSP ..................................................................................................... 253
20.7. Writing Custom Templating Engines ................................................................... 254

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20.8. Other Examples ............................................................................................... 256

21. Logging .................................................................................................................... 257
21.1. Logging traffic ................................................................................................ 257
21.1.1. Introduction .......................................................................................... 257
21.1.2. Configuration and registering ................................................................... 257
22. Monitoring and Diagnostics .......................................................................................... 260
22.1. Monitoring Jersey Applications .......................................................................... 260
22.1.1. Introduction .......................................................................................... 260
22.1.2. Event Listeners ..................................................................................... 261
22.2. Tracing Support ............................................................................................... 270
22.2.1. Configuration options ............................................................................. 270
22.2.2. Tracing Log .......................................................................................... 271
22.2.3. Configuring tracing support via HTTP request headers ................................. 271
22.2.4. Format of the HTTP response headers ....................................................... 271
22.2.5. Tracing Examples .................................................................................. 272
23. Custom Injection and Lifecycle Management .................................................................. 274
23.1. Implementing Custom Injection Provider .............................................................. 274
23.2. Defining Custom Injection Annotation ................................................................. 276
23.3. Custom Life Cycle Management ......................................................................... 278
24. Jersey CDI Container Agnostic Support .......................................................................... 282
24.1. Introduction ..................................................................................................... 282
24.2. Containers Known to Work With Jersey CDI Support ............................................. 282
24.3. Request Scope Binding ..................................................................................... 282
24.4. Jersey Weld SE Support .................................................................................... 283
25. Spring DI .................................................................................................................. 284
25.1. Dependencies .................................................................................................. 284
25.2. Registration and Configuration ........................................................................... 285
25.3. Example ......................................................................................................... 285
26. Jersey Test Framework ................................................................................................ 286
26.1. Basics ............................................................................................................ 286
26.2. Supported Containers ........................................................................................ 287
26.3. Running TestNG Tests ...................................................................................... 288
26.4. Advanced features ............................................................................................ 291
26.4.1. JerseyTest Features .......................................................................... 291
26.4.2. External container .................................................................................. 291
26.4.3. Test Client configuration ......................................................................... 291
26.4.4. Accessing the logged test records programmatically ..................................... 292
26.5. Parallel Testing with Jersey Test Framework ......................................................... 292
27. Building and Testing Jersey ......................................................................................... 294
27.1. Checking Out the Source ................................................................................... 294
27.2. Building the Source .......................................................................................... 294
27.3. Testing ........................................................................................................... 294
27.4. Using NetBeans ............................................................................................... 295
28. Migration Guide ......................................................................................................... 296
28.1. Migrating from Jersey 2.22 to 2.23 ..................................................................... 296
28.1.1. Release 2.23 Highlights .......................................................................... 296
28.1.2. Deprecated APIs .................................................................................... 296
28.1.3. Breaking Changes .................................................................................. 296
28.2. Migrating from Jersey 2.21 to 2.22 ..................................................................... 296
28.2.1. Breaking Changes .................................................................................. 296
28.3. Migrating from Jersey 2.19 to 2.20 ..................................................................... 297
28.3.1. Breaking Changes .................................................................................. 297
28.4. Migrating from Jersey 2.18 to 2.19 ..................................................................... 297
28.4.1. Breaking Changes .................................................................................. 297

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28.5. Migrating from Jersey 2.17 to 2.18 ..................................................................... 297

28.5.1. Release 2.18 Highlights .......................................................................... 297
28.5.2. Removed deprecated APIs ....................................................................... 298
28.5.3. Breaking Changes .................................................................................. 298
28.6. Migrating from Jersey 2.16 to 2.17 ..................................................................... 299
28.6.1. Release 2.17 Highlights .......................................................................... 299
28.7. Migrating from Jersey 2.15 to 2.16 ..................................................................... 299
28.7.1. Release 2.16 Highlights .......................................................................... 299
28.7.2. Deprecated APIs .................................................................................... 299
28.7.3. Breaking Changes .................................................................................. 300
28.8. Migrating to 2.15 ............................................................................................. 300
28.8.1. Release 2.15 Highlights .......................................................................... 300
28.8.2. Breaking Changes .................................................................................. 300
28.9. Migrating from Jersey 2.11 to 2.12 ..................................................................... 301
28.9.1. Release 2.12 Highlights .......................................................................... 301
28.9.2. Breaking Changes .................................................................................. 301
28.10. Migrating from Jersey 2.10 to 2.11 .................................................................... 302
28.10.1. Release 2.11 Highlights ........................................................................ 302
28.11. Migrating from Jersey 2.9 to 2.10 ..................................................................... 302
28.11.1. Removed deprecated APIs ..................................................................... 302
28.12. Migrating from Jersey 2.8 to 2.9 ....................................................................... 303
28.12.1. Release 2.9 Highlights .......................................................................... 303
28.12.2. Changes ............................................................................................. 303
28.13. Migrating from Jersey 2.7 to 2.8 ....................................................................... 304
28.13.1. Changes ............................................................................................. 304
28.14. Migrating from Jersey 2.6 to 2.7 ....................................................................... 307
28.14.1. Changes ............................................................................................. 307
28.15. Migrating from Jersey 2.5.1 to 2.6 ..................................................................... 308
28.15.1. Guava and ASM have been embedded ..................................................... 308
28.15.2. Deprecated APIs .................................................................................. 308
28.15.3. Removed deprecated APIs ..................................................................... 308
28.16. Migrating from Jersey 2.5 to 2.5.1 ..................................................................... 309
28.17. Migrating from Jersey 2.4.1 to 2.5 ..................................................................... 309
28.17.1. Client-side API and SPI changes ............................................................ 309
28.17.2. Other changes ..................................................................................... 311
28.18. Migrating from Jersey 2.4 to 2.4.1 ..................................................................... 311
28.19. Migrating from Jersey 2.3 to 2.4 ....................................................................... 311
28.20. Migrating from Jersey 2.0, 2.1 or 2.2 to 2.3 ........................................................ 312
28.21. Migrating from Jersey 1.x to 2.0 ....................................................................... 312
28.21.1. Server API .......................................................................................... 312
28.21.2. Migrating Jersey Client API ................................................................... 316
28.21.3. JSON support changes .......................................................................... 319
A. Configuration Properties ............................................................................................... 322
A.1. Common (client/server) configuration properties ..................................................... 322
A.2. Server configuration properties ............................................................................ 323
A.3. Servlet configuration properties ........................................................................... 329
A.4. Client configuration properties ............................................................................ 330

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6.1. Travel Agency Orchestration Service .............................................................................. 90
6.2. Time consumed to create a response for the client – synchronous way ................................... 91
6.3. Time consumed to create a response for the client – asynchronous way ................................. 93

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2.1. Jersey Core ................................................................................................................ 15
2.2. Jersey Containers ........................................................................................................ 15
2.3. Jersey Connectors ........................................................................................................ 17
2.4. Jersey Media .............................................................................................................. 17
2.5. Jersey Extensions ........................................................................................................ 18
2.6. Jersey Test Framework ................................................................................................. 22
2.7. Jersey Test Framework Providers ................................................................................... 24
2.8. Jersey Glassfish Bundles .............................................................................................. 25
2.9. Security ..................................................................................................................... 25
2.10. Jersey Examples ........................................................................................................ 26
3.1. Resource scopes .......................................................................................................... 49
3.2. Overview of injection types .......................................................................................... 51
4.1. Servlet 3 Pluggability Overview ..................................................................................... 66
5.1. List of Jersey Connectors .............................................................................................. 82
9.1. Default property values for MOXy MessageBodyReader<T> / MessageBodyWriter<T> ......... 131
28.1. List of changed configuration properties: ...................................................................... 305
28.2. Mapping of Jersey 1.x to JAX-RS 2.0 client classes ....................................................... 316
28.3. JSON approaches and usage in Jersey 1 vs Jersey 2 ........................................................ 319
A.1. List of common configuration properties ....................................................................... 322
A.2. List of server configuration properties .......................................................................... 323
A.3. List of servlet configuration properties .......................................................................... 329
A.4. List of client configuration properties ........................................................................... 331

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3.1. Simple hello world root resource class ............................................................................ 37
3.2. Specifying URI path parameter ...................................................................................... 38
3.3. PUT method ............................................................................................................... 39
3.4. Specifying output MIME type ....................................................................................... 39
3.5. Using multiple output MIME types ................................................................................ 40
3.6. Server-side content negotiation ...................................................................................... 40
3.7. Specifying input MIME type ......................................................................................... 41
3.8. Query parameters ........................................................................................................ 41
3.9. Custom Java type for consuming request parameters .......................................................... 41
3.10. Processing POSTed HTML form .................................................................................. 43
3.11. Obtaining general map of URI path and/or query parameters ............................................. 43
3.12. Obtaining general map of header parameters .................................................................. 43
3.13. Obtaining general map of form parameters ..................................................................... 43
3.14. Example of the bean which will be used as @BeanParam ................................................. 44
3.15. Injection of MyBeanParam as a method parameter: .......................................................... 44
3.16. Injection of more beans into one resource methods: ......................................................... 45
3.17. Sub-resource methods ................................................................................................. 45
3.18. Sub-resource locators ................................................................................................. 46
3.19. Sub-resource locators with empty path .......................................................................... 47
3.20. Sub-resource locators returning sub-type ........................................................................ 47
3.21. Sub-resource locators created from classes ..................................................................... 47
3.22. Sub-resource locators returning resource model ............................................................... 48
3.23. Injection ................................................................................................................... 49
3.24. Wrong injection into a singleton scope .......................................................................... 50
3.25. Injection of proxies into singleton ................................................................................. 50
3.26. Example of possible injections ..................................................................................... 51
4.1. Deployment agnostic application model ........................................................................... 53
4.2. Reusing Jersey implementation in your custom application model ........................................ 54
4.3. Registering SPI implementations using ResourceConfig ..................................................... 56
4.4. Registering SPI implementations using ResourceConfig subclass ................................... 56
4.5. Using Jersey with JDK HTTP Server .............................................................................. 57
4.6. Using Jersey with Grizzly HTTP Server .......................................................................... 58
4.7. Using Jersey with the Simple framework ......................................................................... 58
4.8. Using Jersey with Jetty HTTP Server .............................................................................. 59
4.9. Using Jersey with Netty HTTP Server ............................................................................ 59
4.10. Hooking up Jersey as a Servlet .................................................................................... 60
4.11. Hooking up Jersey as a Servlet Filter ............................................................................ 60
4.12. Configuring Jersey container Servlet or Filter to use custom Application subclass ............ 61
4.13. Configuring Jersey container Servlet or Filter to use package scanning ................................ 62
4.14. Configuring Jersey container Servlet or Filter to use a list of classes ................................... 62
4.15. Deployment of a JAX-RS application using @ApplicationPath with Servlet 3.0 .............. 63
4.16. Configuration of maven-war-plugin to ignore missing web.xml ........................................ 63
4.17. Deployment of a JAX-RS application using web.xml with Servlet 3.0 ............................... 63
4.18. web.xml of a JAX-RS application without an Application subclass ............................. 64
4.19. ................................................................................................................................ 65
4.20. ................................................................................................................................ 70
5.1. POST request with form parameters ............................................................................... 75
5.2. Using JAX-RS Client API ............................................................................................ 80
5.3. Using JAX-RS Client API fluently ................................................................................. 81
5.4. Sending restricted headers with HttpUrlConnector ..................................................... 84
5.5. Closing connections ..................................................................................................... 85

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5.6. ServiceLocatorClientProvider example ............................................................................ 85

6.1. Excerpt from a synchronous approach while implementing the orchestration layer ................... 90
6.2. Excerpt from an asynchronous approach while implementing the orchestration layer ................ 91
6.3. Excerpt from a reactive approach while implementing the orchestration layer ......................... 93
6.4. Synchronous invocation of HTTP requests ....................................................................... 94
6.5. Asynchronous invocation of HTTP requests ..................................................................... 95
6.6. Reactive invocation of HTTP requests ............................................................................ 95
6.7. Creating Jersey/RxJava Client and WebTarget – Using Rx .................................................. 98
6.8. Creating Jersey/RxJava Client and WebTarget – Using RxObservable ................................... 98
6.9. Obtaining Observable<Response> from Jersey/RxJava Client .............................................. 98
6.10. Creating Jersey/Java8 Client and WebTarget – Using Rx .................................................. 99
6.11. Creating Jersey/Java 8 Client and WebTarget – Using RxCompletionStage ......................... 100
6.12. Obtaining CompletionStage<Response> from Jersey/Java 8 Client .................................... 100
6.13. Creating Jersey/Guava Client and WebTarget – Using Rx ............................................... 101
6.14. Creating Jersey/Guava Client and WebTarget – Using RxListenableFuture ......................... 101
6.15. Obtaining ListenableFuture<Response> from Jersey/Guava Client .................................... 102
6.16. Creating Jersey/JSR-166e Client and WebTarget – Using Rx ........................................... 103
6.17. Creating Jersey/JSR-166e Client and WebTarget – Using RxCompletableFuture .................. 103
6.18. Obtaining CompletableFuture<Response> from Jersey/JSR-166e Client ............................. 103
6.19. RxInvoker snippet .................................................................................................... 105
6.20. Extending RxInvoker - RxObservableInvoker ................................................................ 105
6.21. Example of RxInvokerProvider - RxObservableInvokerProvider ....................................... 106
6.22. META-INF/services/org.glassfish.jersey.client.rx.spi.RxInvokerProvider ............................ 106
7.1. Using File with a specific media type to produce a response ........................................... 108
7.2. Returning 201 status code and adding Location header in response to POST request ........... 108
7.3. Adding an entity body to a custom response ................................................................... 109
7.4. Throwing exceptions to control response ....................................................................... 109
7.5. Application specific exception implementation ................................................................ 109
7.6. Mapping generic exceptions to responses ....................................................................... 110
7.7. Conditional GET support ............................................................................................ 111
8.1. Example resource class ............................................................................................... 113
8.2. MyBean entity class ................................................................................................... 114
8.3. MessageBodyWriter example ....................................................................................... 115
8.4. Example of assignment of annotations to a response entity ................................................ 116
8.5. Client code testing MyBeanMessageBodyWriter ............................................................. 117
8.6. Result of MyBeanMessageBodyWriter test ..................................................................... 118
8.7. MessageBodyReader example ...................................................................................... 118
8.8. Testing MyBeanMessageBodyReader ............................................................................ 119
8.9. Result of testing MyBeanMessageBodyReader ................................................................ 120
8.10. MessageBodyReader registered on a JAX-RS client ....................................................... 120
8.11. Result of client code execution ................................................................................... 120
8.12. Usage of MessageBodyWorkers interface ..................................................................... 123
9.1. Simple JAXB bean implementation ............................................................................... 127
9.2. JAXB bean used to generate JSON representation ........................................................... 127
9.3. Tweaking JSON format using JAXB ............................................................................. 127
9.4. JAXB bean creation ................................................................................................... 128
9.5. Constructing a JsonObject (JSON-Processing) ........................................................... 128
9.6. Constructing a JSONObject (Jettison) ........................................................................ 128
9.7. MoxyJsonConfig - Setting properties. ............................................................................ 130
9.8. Creating ContextResolver<MoxyJsonConfig> .................................................... 130
9.9. Setting properties for MOXy providers into Configurable ................................................. 130
9.10. Building client with MOXy JSON feature enabled. ........................................................ 131
9.11. Creating JAX-RS application with MOXy JSON feature enabled. ..................................... 131
9.12. Building client with JSON-Processing JSON feature enabled. ........................................... 132

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9.13. Creating JAX-RS application with JSON-Processing JSON feature enabled. ........................ 132
9.14. ContextResolver<ObjectMapper> ................................................................... 134
9.15. Building client with Jackson JSON feature enabled. ....................................................... 134
9.16. Creating JAX-RS application with Jackson JSON feature enabled. .................................... 134
9.17. JAXB beans for JSON supported notations description, simple address bean ....................... 135
9.18. JAXB beans for JSON supported notations description, contact bean ................................. 136
9.19. JAXB beans for JSON supported notations description, initialization ................................. 136
9.20. XML namespace to JSON mapping configuration for Jettison based mapped notation .......... 136
9.21. JSON expression with XML namespaces mapped into JSON ........................................... 137
9.22. JSON Array configuration for Jettison based mapped notation ........................................ 137
9.23. JSON expression with JSON arrays explicitly configured via Jersey .................................. 137
9.24. JSON expression produced using badgerfish notation ................................................ 138
9.25. ContextResolver<ObjectMapper> ................................................................... 138
9.26. Building client with Jettison JSON feature enabled. ........................................................ 138
9.27. Creating JAX-RS application with Jettison JSON feature enabled. ..................................... 139
9.28. Simplest case of using @JSONP ................................................................................. 139
9.29. JaxbBean for @JSONP example ................................................................................. 139
9.30. Example of @JSONP with configured parameters. .......................................................... 140
9.31. Low level XML test - methods added to HelloWorldResource.java ........................ 141
9.32. Planet class ............................................................................................................. 142
9.33. Resource class ......................................................................................................... 142
9.34. Method for consuming Planet ..................................................................................... 143
9.35. Resource class - JAXBElement .................................................................................. 143
9.36. Client side - JAXBElement ........................................................................................ 144
9.37. PlanetJAXBContextProvider ...................................................................................... 144
9.38. Using Provider with JAX-RS client ............................................................................. 145
9.39. Add jersey-media-moxy dependency. ................................................................... 145
9.40. Register the MoxyXmlFeature class. ....................................................................... 145
9.41. Configure and register an MoxyXmlFeature instance. ................................................. 146
9.42. Building client with MultiPart feature enabled. .............................................................. 147
9.43. Creating JAX-RS application with MultiPart feature enabled. ........................................... 147
9.44. MultiPart entity .................................................................................................. 147
9.45. MultiPart entity in HTTP message. ........................................................................ 148
9.46. FormDataMultiPart entity .................................................................................. 148
9.47. FormDataMultiPart entity in HTTP message. ........................................................ 148
9.48. Multipart - sending files. ........................................................................................... 149
9.49. Resource method using MultiPart as input parameter / return value. .............................. 149
9.50. Use of @FormDataParam annotation ........................................................................ 150
10.1. Container response filter ............................................................................................ 152
10.2. Container request filter .............................................................................................. 153
10.3. Pre-matching request filter ......................................................................................... 154
10.4. Client request filter .................................................................................................. 155
10.5. GZIP writer interceptor ............................................................................................. 156
10.6. GZIP reader interceptor ............................................................................................. 157
10.7. @NameBinding example ......................................................................................... 159
10.8. Dynamic binding example ......................................................................................... 160
10.9. Priorities example .................................................................................................... 162
11.1. Simple async resource .............................................................................................. 163
11.2. Simple async method with timeout .............................................................................. 164
11.3. CompletionCallback example ..................................................................................... 165
11.4. ChunkedOutput example ........................................................................................... 167
11.5. Simple client async invocation ................................................................................... 168
11.6. Simple client fluent async invocation ........................................................................... 168
11.7. Client async callback ................................................................................................ 169

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11.8. Client async callback for specific entity ....................................................................... 169

11.9. ChunkedInput example .............................................................................................. 170
12.1. URI building ........................................................................................................... 172
12.2. Building URIs using query parameters ......................................................................... 173
13.1. Creating JAX-RS application with Declarative Linking feature enabled. ............................. 177
14.1. A standard resource class .......................................................................................... 179
14.2. A programmatic resource .......................................................................................... 180
14.3. A programmatic resource .......................................................................................... 181
14.4. A programmatic resource .......................................................................................... 182
14.5. A programmatic resource .......................................................................................... 182
14.6. A programmatic resource .......................................................................................... 183
15.1. Add jersey-media-sse dependency. ..................................................................... 186
15.2. Simple SSE resource method ..................................................................................... 188
15.3. Broadcasting SSE messages ....................................................................................... 191
15.4. Registering EventListener with EventSource ..................................................... 193
15.5. Overriding EventSource.onEvent(InboundEvent) method ................................. 195
16.1. Using SecurityContext for a Resource Selection .................................................... 197
16.2. Injecting SecurityContext into a singleton resource ................................................ 197
16.3. Securing resources using web.xml ............................................................................ 198
16.4. Registering RolesAllowedDynamicFeature using ResourceConfig ..................................... 199
16.5. Registering RolesAllowedDynamicFeature by extending ResourceConfig ........................... 199
16.6. Applying javax.annotation.security to JAX-RS resource methods. ..................... 199
16.7. Build the authorization flow utility .............................................................................. 204
16.8. Perform the OAuth Authorization Flow ....................................................................... 204
16.9. Authenticated requests .............................................................................................. 205
16.10. Build feature from Access Token .............................................................................. 205
16.11. Specifying Access Token on a Request. ..................................................................... 205
16.12. Creating Public/Private RSA-SHA1 keys .................................................................... 206
16.13. Building OAuth 2 Authorization Flow. ....................................................................... 207
17.1. A simple WADL example - JAX-RS resource definition ................................................. 209
17.2. A simple WADL example - WADL content ................................................................. 210
17.3. OPTIONS method returning WADL ............................................................................ 213
17.4. More complex WADL example - JAX-RS resource definition .......................................... 214
17.5. More complex WADL example - WADL content .......................................................... 215
18.1. Configuring Jersey specific properties for Bean Validation. ............................................. 220
18.2. Using ValidationConfig to configure Validator. ............................................... 221
18.3. Constraint annotations on input parameters ................................................................... 222
18.4. Constraint annotations on fields .................................................................................. 223
18.5. Constraint annotations on class ................................................................................... 224
18.6. Definition of a constraint annotation ............................................................................ 224
18.7. Validator implementation. .......................................................................................... 224
18.8. Entity validation ...................................................................................................... 225
18.9. Entity validation 2 .................................................................................................... 225
18.10. Response entity validation ....................................................................................... 226
18.11. Validate getter on execution ..................................................................................... 226
18.12. Injecting UriInfo into a ConstraintValidator ................................................................ 227
18.13. Support for injecting Jersey's resources/providers via ConstraintValidatorFactory. .............. 228
18.14. ValidationError to text/plain ..................................................................... 230
18.15. ValidationError to text/html ....................................................................... 230
18.16. ValidationError to application/xml ........................................................... 230
18.17. ValidationError to application/json ......................................................... 231
19.1. Registering and configuring entity-filtering feature on server. ........................................... 233
19.2. Registering and configuring entity-filtering feature with security annotations on server. ......... 233

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19.3. Registering and configuring entity-filtering feature based on dynamic and configurable query
parameters. ..................................................................................................................... 234
19.4. Registering and configuring entity-filtering feature on client. ........................................... 234
19.5. Project .................................................................................................................... 234
19.6. User ....................................................................................................................... 235
19.7. Task ...................................................................................................................... 235
19.8. ProjectsResource ...................................................................................................... 235
19.9. ProjectDetailedView ................................................................................................. 236
19.10. Annotated Project ................................................................................................... 237
19.11. Annotated User ...................................................................................................... 237
19.12. Annotated Task ...................................................................................................... 237
19.13. ProjectsResource - Response entity-filtering annotations ................................................ 239
19.14. ProjectsResource - Entity-filtering annotations on methods ............................................ 239
19.15. Client - Request entity-filtering annotations ................................................................. 240
19.16. Client - Request entity-filtering annotations ................................................................. 240
19.17. Sever - Query Parameter driven entity-filtering ............................................................ 242
19.18. ............................................................................................................................ 242
19.19. Entity-filtering annotation with custom meaning .......................................................... 242
19.20. Entity Data Filtering support in MOXy JSON binding provider ....................................... 243
20.1. Using Viewable in a resource class .......................................................................... 245
20.2. Using @Template on a resource method .................................................................... 246
20.3. Using @Template on a resource class ....................................................................... 246
20.4. Using absolute path to template in Viewable .............................................................. 248
20.5. Using @ErrorTemplate on a resource method .......................................................... 249
20.6. Using @ErrorTemplate with Bean Validation .......................................................... 249
20.7. Iterating through ValidationError in JSP .............................................................. 249
20.8. Registering MvcFeature ......................................................................................... 250
20.9. Registering FreemarkerMvcFeature ..................................................................... 250
20.10. Setting MvcFeature.TEMPLATE_BASE_PATH value in ResourceConfig ............... 250
20.11. Setting FreemarkerMvcProperties.TEMPLATE_BASE_PATH value in
web.xml ....................................................................................................................... 251
20.12. Including JSP page into JSP page ............................................................................. 254
20.13. Custom TemplateProcessor ...................................................................................... 255
20.14. Registering custom TemplateProcessor ....................................................................... 255
21.1. Logging on client-side .............................................................................................. 258
21.2. Register LoggingFeature via constructor ................................................................ 259
21.3. Register LoggingFeature class ............................................................................. 259
22.1. Application event listener .......................................................................................... 261
22.2. Request event listener ............................................................................................... 261
22.3. Event listener test resource ........................................................................................ 262
22.4. Injecting MonitoringStatistics ..................................................................................... 264
22.5. Summary level messages ........................................................................................... 272
22.6. On demand request, snippet of MVC JSP forwarding ..................................................... 272
24.1. Bootstrapping Jersey application with Weld support on Grizzly ........................................ 283
28.1. Jersey 1 reloader implementation ................................................................................ 314
28.2. Jersey 1 reloader registration ...................................................................................... 315
28.3. Jersey 2 reloader implementation ................................................................................ 315
28.4. Jersey 2 reloader registration ...................................................................................... 316
28.5. Initializing JAXB-based support with MOXy ................................................................ 319

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This is user guide for Jersey 2.25.1. We are trying to keep it up to date as we add new features. When reading
the user guide, please consult also our Jersey API documentation [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/index.html] as an additional source of information about Jersey features and API.

If you would like to contribute to the guide or have questions on things not covered in our docs, please
contact us [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]. Similarly, in case you spot any errors
in the Jersey documentation, please report them by filing a new issue in our Jersey JIRA Issue Tracker
[http://java.net/jira/browse/JERSEY] under docs component. Please make sure to specify the version of
the Jersey User Guide where the error has been spotted by selecting the proper value for the Affected
Version field.

Text formatting conventions

First mention of any Jersey and JAX-RS API component in a section links to the API documentation of
the referenced component. Any sub-sequent mentions of the component in the same chapter are rendered
using a monospaced font.

Emphasised font is used to a call attention to a newly introduce concept, when it first occurs in the text.

In some of the code listings, certain lines are too long to be displayed on one line for the available page
width. In such case, the lines that exceed the available page width are broken up into multiple lines using
a '\' at the end of each line to indicate that a break has been introduced to fit the line in the page. For
example:

This is an overly long line that \

might not fit the available page \
width and had to be broken into \
multiple lines.

This line fits the page width.

Should read as:

This is an overly long line that might not fit the available page width and had to

This line fits the page width.

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This chapter provides a quick introduction on how to get started building RESTful services using Jersey.
The example described here uses the lightweight Grizzly HTTP server. At the end of this chapter you will
see how to implement equivalent functionality as a JavaEE web application you can deploy on any servlet
container supporting Servlet 2.5 and higher.

1.1. Creating a New Project from Maven

Archetype
Jersey project is built using Apache Maven [http://maven.apache.org/] software project build and
management tool. All modules produced as part of Jersey project build are pushed to the Central Maven
Repository [http://search.maven.org/]. Therefore it is very convenient to work with Jersey for any Maven-
based project as all the released (non-SNAPSHOT) Jersey dependencies are readily available without a
need to configure a special maven repository to consume the Jersey modules.

Note
In case you want to depend on the latest SNAPSHOT versions of Jersey modules, the following
repository configuration needs to be added to your Maven project pom:

<repository>
<id>snapshot-repository.java.net</id>
<name>Java.net Snapshot Repository for Maven</name>
<url>https://maven.java.net/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
<layout>default</layout>
</repository>

Since starting from a Maven project is the most convenient way for working with Jersey, let's now have
a look at this approach. We will now create a new Jersey project that runs on top of a Grizzly [http://
grizzly.java.net/] container. We will use a Jersey-provided maven archetype. To create the project, execute
the following Maven command in the directory where the new project should reside:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId=jersey-quickstart-grizzly2 \

-DarchetypeGroupId=org.glassfish.jersey.archetypes -DinteractiveMode=false \
-DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=simple-service -Dpackage=com.example \
-DarchetypeVersion=2.25.1

Feel free to adjust the groupId, package and/or artifactId of your new project. Alternatively,
you can change it by updating the new project pom.xml once it gets generated.

1.2. Exploring the Newly Created Project

Once the project generation from a Jersey maven archetype is successfully finished, you should see the new
simple-service project directory created in your current location. The directory contains a standard
Maven project structure:

Project build and management configuration is described in the pom.xml located in the project root
directory.
Project sources are located under src/main/java.

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Project test sources are located under src/test/java.

There are 2 classes in the project source directory in the com.example package. The Main class is
responsible for bootstrapping the Grizzly container as well as configuring and deploying the project's JAX-
RS application to the container. Another class in the same package is MyResource class, that contains
implementation of a simple JAX-RS resource. It looks like this:

1 package com.example;
2
3 import javax.ws.rs.GET;
4 import javax.ws.rs.Path;
5 import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
6 import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
7
8 /**
9 * Root resource (exposed at "myresource" path)
10 */
11 @Path("myresource")
12 public class MyResource {
13
14 /**
15 * Method handling HTTP GET requests. The returned object will be sent
16 * to the client as "text/plain" media type.
17 *
18 * @return String that will be returned as a text/plain response.
19 */
20 @GET
21 @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
22 public String getIt() {
23 return "Got it!";
24 }
25 }

A JAX-RS resource is an annotated POJO that provides so-called resource methods that are able to handle
HTTP requests for URI paths that the resource is bound to. See Chapter 3, JAX-RS Application, Resources
and Sub-Resources for a complete guide to JAX-RS resources. In our case, the resource exposes a single
resource method that is able to handle HTTP GET requests, is bound to /myresource URI path and
can produce responses with response message content represented in "text/plain" media type. In this
version, the resource returns the same "Got it!" response to all client requests.

The last piece of code that has been generated in this skeleton project is a MyResourceTest unit test
class that is located in the same com.example package as the MyResource class, however, this unit
test class is placed into the maven project test source directory src/test/java (certain code comments
and JUnit imports have been excluded for brevity):

1 package com.example;
2
3 import javax.ws.rs.client.Client;
4 import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientBuilder;
5 import javax.ws.rs.client.WebTarget;
6
7 import org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpServer;
8
9 ...
10
11 public class MyResourceTest {

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12
13 private HttpServer server;
14 private WebTarget target;
15
16 @Before
17 public void setUp() throws Exception {
18 server = Main.startServer();
19
20 Client c = ClientBuilder.newClient();
21 target = c.target(Main.BASE_URI);
22 }
23
24 @After
25 public void tearDown() throws Exception {
26 server.stop();
27 }
28
29 /**
30 * Test to see that the message "Got it!" is sent in the response.
31 */
32 @Test
33 public void testGetIt() {
34 String responseMsg = target.path("myresource").request().get(String.cla
35 assertEquals("Got it!", responseMsg);
36 }
37 }

In this unit test, a Grizzly container is first started and server application is deployed in the test setUp()
method by a static call to Main.startServer(). Next, a JAX-RS client components are created in
the same test set-up method. First a new JAX-RS client instance c is built and then a JAX-RS web target
component pointing to the context root of our application deployed at http://localhost:8080/
myapp/ (a value of Main.BASE_URI constant) is stored into a target field of the unit test class. This
field is then used in the actual unit test method (testGetIt()).

In the testGetIt() method a fluent JAX-RS Client API is used to connect to and send a HTTP GET
request to the MyResource JAX-RS resource class listening on /myresource URI. As part of the
same fluent JAX-RS API method invocation chain, a response is read as a Java String type. On the
second line in the test method, the response content string returned from the server is compared with
the expected phrase in the test assertion. To learn more about using JAX-RS Client API, please see the
Chapter 5, Client API chapter.

1.3. Running the Project

Now that we have seen the content of the project, let's try to test-run it. To do this, we need to invoke
following command on the command line:

mvn clean test

This will compile the project and run the project unit tests. We should see a similar output that informs
about a successful build once the build is finished:

Results :

Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

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[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 34.527s
[INFO] Finished at: Sun May 26 19:26:24 CEST 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 17M/490M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Now that we have verified that the project compiles and that the unit test passes, we can execute the
application in a standalone mode. To do this, run the following maven command:

mvn exec:java

The application starts and you should soon see the following notification in your console:

May 26, 2013 8:08:45 PM org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.NetworkListener start

INFO: Started listener bound to [localhost:8080]
May 26, 2013 8:08:45 PM org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpServer start
INFO: [HttpServer] Started.
Jersey app started with WADL available at http://localhost:8080/myapp/application.w
Hit enter to stop it...

This informs you that the application has been started and it's WADL descriptor is available at http://
localhost:8080/myapp/application.wadl URL. You can retrieve the WADL content by
executing a curl http://localhost:8080/myapp/application.wadl command in your
console or by typing the WADL URL into your favorite browser. You should get back an XML document
in describing your deployed RESTful application in a WADL format. To learn more about working with
WADL, check the Chapter 17, WADL Support chapter.

The last thing we should try before concluding this section is to see if we can communicate with our
resource deployed at /myresource path. We can again either type the resource URL in the browser
or we can use curl:

$ curl http://localhost:8080/myapp/myresource
Got it!

As we can see, the curl command returned with the Got it! message that was sent by our resource.
We can also ask curl to provide more information about the response, for example we can let it display
all response headers by using the -i switch:

curl -i http://localhost:8080/myapp/myresource
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 18:27:19 GMT
Content-Length: 7

Got it!

Here we see the whole content of the response message that our Jersey/JAX-RS application returned,
including all the HTTP headers. Notice the Content-Type: text/plain header that was
derived from the value of @Produces [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
Produces.html] annotation attached to the MyResource class.

In case you want to see even more details about the communication between our curl client and our
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that curl provides. For example, this last command will make curl output a lot of additional information
about the whole communication:

$ curl -v http://localhost:8080/myapp/myresource
* About to connect() to localhost port 8080 (#0)
* Trying ::1...
* Connection refused
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
> GET /myapp/myresource HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.25.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0) libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1e
> Host: localhost:8080
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/plain
< Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 18:29:18 GMT
< Content-Length: 7
<
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
Got it!* Closing connection #0

1.4. Creating a JavaEE Web Application

To create a Web Application that can be packaged as WAR and deployed in a Servlet container follow
a similar process to the one described in Section 1.1, “Creating a New Project from Maven Archetype”.
In addition to the Grizzly-based archetype, Jersey provides also a Maven archetype for creating web
application skeletons. To create the new web application skeleton project, execute the following Maven
command in the directory where the new project should reside:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId=jersey-quickstart-webapp \

-DarchetypeGroupId=org.glassfish.jersey.archetypes -DinteractiveMod
-DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=simple-service-webapp -Dpackage=
-DarchetypeVersion=2.25.1

As with the Grizzly based project, feel free to adjust the groupId, package and/or artifactId of
your new web application project. Alternatively, you can change it by updating the new project pom.xml
once it gets generated.

Once the project generation from a Jersey maven archetype is successfully finished, you should see the new
simple-service-webapp project directory created in your current location. The directory contains a
standard Maven project structure, similar to the simple-service project content we have seen earlier,
except it is extended with an additional web application specific content:

Project build and management configuration is described in the pom.xml located in the project root
directory.
Project sources are located under src/main/java.
Project resources are located under src/main/resources.
Project web application files are located under src/main/webapp.
The project contains the same MyResouce JAX-RS resource class. It does not contain any unit tests as
well as it does not contain a Main class that was used to setup Grizzly container in the previous project.
Instead, it contains the standard Java EE web application web.xml deployment descriptor under src/
main/webapp/WEB-INF. The last component in the project is an index.jsp page that serves as a
client for the MyResource resource class that is packaged and deployed with the application.

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To compile and package the application into a WAR, invoke the following maven command in your
console:

mvn clean package

A successful build output will produce an output similar to the one below:

Results :

Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.1.1:war (default-war) @ simple-service-webapp ---
[INFO] Packaging webapp
[INFO] Assembling webapp [simple-service-webapp] in [.../simple-service-webapp/targ
[INFO] Processing war project
[INFO] Copying webapp resources [.../simple-service-webapp/src/main/webapp]
[INFO] Webapp assembled in [75 msecs]
[INFO] Building war: .../simple-service-webapp/target/simple-service-webapp.war
[INFO] WEB-INF/web.xml already added, skipping
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 9.067s
[INFO] Finished at: Sun May 26 21:07:44 CEST 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 17M/490M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Now you are ready to take the packaged WAR (located under ./target/simple-service-
webapp.war) and deploy it to a Servlet container of your choice.

Important
To deploy a Jersey application, you will need a Servlet container that supports Servlet 2.5 or later.
For full set of advanced features (such as JAX-RS 2.0 Async Support) you will need a Servlet
3.0 or later compliant container.

1.5. Creating a Web Application that can be

deployed on Heroku
To create a Web Application that can be either packaged as WAR and deployed in a Servlet container or
that can be pushed and deployed on Heroku [https://www.heroku.com] the process is very similar to the
one described in Section 1.4, “Creating a JavaEE Web Application”. To create the new web application
skeleton project, execute the following Maven command in the directory where the new project should
reside:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId=jersey-heroku-webapp \

-DarchetypeGroupId=org.glassfish.jersey.archetypes -DinteractiveMod
-DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=simple-heroku-webapp -Dpackage=c
-DarchetypeVersion=2.25.1

Adjust the groupId, package and/or artifactId of your new web application project to your needs
or, alternatively, you can change it by updating the new project pom.xml once it gets generated.

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Once the project generation from a Jersey maven archetype is successfully finished, you should see the new
simple-heroku-webapp project directory created in your current location. The directory contains a
standard Maven project structure:

Project build and management configuration is described in the pom.xml located in the project root
directory.
Project sources are located under src/main/java.
Project resources are located under src/main/resources.
Project web application files are located under src/main/webapp.
Project test-sources (based on JerseyTest [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/test/JerseyTest.html]) are located under src/test/java.
Heroku system properties (OpenJDK version) are defined in system.properties.
Lists of the process types in an application for Heroku is in Procfile.
The project contains one JAX-RS resource class, MyResouce, and one resource method which returns
simple text message. To make sure the resource is properly tested there is also a end-to-end test-
case in MyResourceTest (the test is based on JerseyTest [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/test/JerseyTest.html] from our Chapter 26, Jersey Test Framework). Similarly to
simple-service-webapp, the project contains the standard Java EE web application web.xml
deployment descriptor under src/main/webapp/WEB-INF since the goal is to deploy the application
in a Servlet container (the application will run in Jetty on Heroku).

To compile and package the application into a WAR, invoke the following maven command in your
console:

mvn clean package

A successful build output will produce an output similar to the one below:

Results :

Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.2:war (default-war) @ simple-heroku-webapp ---
[INFO] Packaging webapp
[INFO] Assembling webapp [simple-heroku-webapp] in [.../simple-heroku-webapp/ta
[INFO] Processing war project
[INFO] Copying webapp resources [.../simple-heroku-webapp/src/main/webapp]
[INFO] Webapp assembled in [57 msecs]
[INFO] Building war: .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/simple-heroku-webapp.war
[INFO] WEB-INF/web.xml already added, skipping
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:copy-dependencies (copy-dependencies) @
[INFO] Copying hk2-locator-2.2.0-b21.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/dep
[INFO] Copying jetty-security-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/t
[INFO] Copying asm-all-repackaged-2.2.0-b21.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/tar
[INFO] Copying jersey-common-2.5.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/depende
[INFO] Copying validation-api-1.1.0.Final.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/targe
[INFO] Copying jetty-webapp-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/tar
[INFO] Copying jersey-container-servlet-2.5.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/tar
[INFO] Copying cglib-2.2.0-b21.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/dependenc
[INFO] Copying osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/targ
[INFO] Copying hk2-utils-2.2.0-b21.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/depen
[INFO] Copying hk2-api-2.2.0-b21.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/depende
[INFO] Copying jetty-io-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/

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[INFO] Copying jetty-server-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/tar

[INFO] Copying jetty-util-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/targe
[INFO] Copying jersey-client-2.5.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/depende
[INFO] Copying jetty-http-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/targe
[INFO] Copying guava-14.0.1.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/dependency/g
[INFO] Copying jetty-xml-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target
[INFO] Copying jersey-server-2.5.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/depende
[INFO] Copying jersey-container-servlet-core-2.5.jar to .../simple-heroku-webap
[INFO] Copying javax.ws.rs-api-2.0.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/depen
[INFO] Copying jetty-servlet-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/ta
[INFO] Copying javax.inject-2.2.0-b21.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/de
[INFO] Copying javax.servlet-3.0.0.v201112011016.jar to .../simple-heroku-webap
[INFO] Copying javax.annotation-api-1.2.jar to .../simple-heroku-webapp/target/
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4.401s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Dec 09 20:19:06 CET 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 20M/246M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Now that you know everything went as expected you are ready to:

• make some changes in your project,

• take the packaged WAR (located under ./target/simple-service-webapp.war) and deploy

it to a Servlet container of your choice, or

• Section 1.5.1, “Deploy it on Heroku”

Tip
If you want to make some changes to your application you can run the application
locally by simply running mvn clean package jetty:run (which starts the
embedded Jetty server) or by java -cp target/classes:target/dependency/*
com.example.heroku.Main (this is how Jetty is started on Heroku).

1.5.1. Deploy it on Heroku

We won't go into details how to create an account on Heroku [https://www.heroku.com] and setup the
Heroku tools on your machine. You can find a lot of information in this article: Getting Started with Java
on Heroku [https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-java]. Instead, we'll take a look at
the steps needed after your environment is ready.

The first step is to create a Git repository from your project:

$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /.../simple-heroku-webapp/.git/

Then, create a Heroku [https://www.heroku.com] instance and add a remote reference to your Git
repository:

$ heroku create
Creating simple-heroku-webapp... done, stack is cedar
http://simple-heroku-webapp.herokuapp.com/ | [email protected]:simple-heroku-webap

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Git remote heroku added

Note
The name of the instance is changed in the output to simple-heroku-webapp. Your will be
named more like tranquil-basin-4744.

Add and commit files to your Git repository:

$ git add src/ pom.xml Procfile system.properties

$ git commit -a -m "initial commit"

[master (root-commit) e2b58e3] initial commit
7 files changed, 221 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Procfile
create mode 100644 pom.xml
create mode 100644 src/main/java/com/example/MyResource.java
create mode 100644 src/main/java/com/example/heroku/Main.java
create mode 100644 src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
create mode 100644 src/test/java/com/example/MyResourceTest.java
create mode 100644 system.properties

Push changes to Heroku:

$ git push heroku master

Counting objects: 21, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
Writing objects: 100% (21/21), 3.73 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 21 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

-----> Java app detected

-----> Installing OpenJDK 1.7... done
-----> Installing Maven 3.0.3... done
-----> Installing settings.xml... done
-----> executing /app/tmp/cache/.maven/bin/mvn -B -Duser.home=/tmp/build_992cc7
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] -----------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building simple-heroku-webapp 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] -----------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1:clean (default-clean) @ simple-herok
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.4.3:resources (default-resources) @
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:compile (default-compile) @ simpl
[INFO] Compiling 2 source files to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-bdb1-ad
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.4.3:testResources (default-testResou
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800
[INFO]

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[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:testCompile (default-testCompile)

[INFO] Compiling 1 source file to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-bdb1-add
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.7.2:test (default-test) @ simple-hero
[INFO] Tests are skipped.
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.1.1:war (default-war) @ simple-heroku-weba
[INFO] Packaging webapp
[INFO] Assembling webapp [simple-heroku-webapp] in [/tmp/build_992cc747-
[INFO] Processing war project
[INFO] Copying webapp resources [/tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-bdb1-add4
[INFO] Webapp assembled in [88 msecs]
[INFO] Building war: /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-bdb1-add47b9583cd/tar
[INFO] WEB-INF/web.xml already added, skipping
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.1:copy-dependencies (copy-dependenc
[INFO] Copying guava-14.0.1.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-bdb1-ad
[INFO] Copying javax.annotation-api-1.2.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-
[INFO] Copying validation-api-1.1.0.Final.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d
[INFO] Copying javax.ws.rs-api-2.0.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-
[INFO] Copying jetty-http-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d
[INFO] Copying jetty-io-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-
[INFO] Copying jetty-security-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747
[INFO] Copying jetty-server-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-2
[INFO] Copying jetty-servlet-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-
[INFO] Copying jetty-util-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d
[INFO] Copying jetty-webapp-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-2
[INFO] Copying jetty-xml-9.0.6.v20130930.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6
[INFO] Copying javax.servlet-3.0.0.v201112011016.jar to /tmp/build_992cc
[INFO] Copying hk2-api-2.2.0-b21.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-bd
[INFO] Copying hk2-locator-2.2.0-b21.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-480
[INFO] Copying hk2-utils-2.2.0-b21.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-
[INFO] Copying osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26
[INFO] Copying asm-all-repackaged-2.2.0-b21.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-2
[INFO] Copying cglib-2.2.0-b21.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-bdb1
[INFO] Copying javax.inject-2.2.0-b21.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-48
[INFO] Copying jersey-container-servlet-2.5.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-2
[INFO] Copying jersey-container-servlet-core-2.5.jar to /tmp/build_992cc
[INFO] Copying jersey-client-2.5.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-bd
[INFO] Copying jersey-common-2.5.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-bd
[INFO] Copying jersey-server-2.5.jar to /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-bd
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.3.1:install (default-install) @ simple
[INFO] Installing /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-bdb1-add47b9583cd/target
[INFO] Installing /tmp/build_992cc747-26d6-4800-bdb1-add47b9583cd/pom.xm
[INFO] -----------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] -----------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 45.861s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Dec 09 19:51:34 UTC 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 17M/514M
[INFO] -----------------------------------------------------------------
-----> Discovering process types
Procfile declares types -> web

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-----> Compiled slug size: 75.9MB

-----> Launching... done, v6
http://simple-heroku-webapp.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku

To [email protected]:simple-heroku-webapp.git
* [new branch] master -> master

Now you can access your application at, for example: http://simple-heroku-webapp.herokuapp.com/
myresource

1.6. Exploring Other Jersey Examples

In the sections above, we have covered an approach how to get dirty with Jersey quickly. Please consult
the other sections of the Jersey User Guide to learn more about Jersey and JAX-RS. Even though we try
our best to cover as much as possible in the User Guide, there is always a chance that you would not be
able to get a full answer to the problem you are solving. In that case, consider diving in our examples that
provide additional tips and hints to the features you may want to use in your projects.

Jersey codebase contains a number of useful examples on how to use various JAX-RS and Jersey features.
Feel free to browse through the code of individual Jersey Examples [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/
tree/2.25.1/examples] in the Jersey source repository. For off-line browsing, you can also download a
bundle with all the examples from here [https://maven.java.net/content/repositories/releases/org/glassfish/
jersey/bundles/jersey-examples/2.25.1/].

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2.1. Java SE Compatibility
Until version 2.6, Jersey was compiled with Java SE 6. This has changes in Jersey 2.7. Now almost all
Jersey components are compiled with Java SE 7 target. It means, that you will need at least Java SE 7 to
be able to compile and run your application that is using latest Jersey. Only core-common and core-
client modules are still compiled with Java class version runnable with Java SE 6.

2.2. Introduction to Jersey dependencies

Jersey is built, assembled and installed using Apache Maven [http://maven.apache.org/]. Non-snapshot
Jersey releases are deployed to the Central Maven Repository [http://search.maven.org/]. Jersey is
also being deployed to Java.Net Maven repositories [http://maven.java.net/], which contain also Jersey
SNAPSHOT versions. In case you would want to test the latest development builds check out the Java.Net
Snapshots Maven repository [https://maven.java.net/content/repositories/snapshots/org/glassfish/jersey].

An application that uses Jersey and depends on Jersey modules is in turn required to also include in the
application dependencies the set of 3rd party modules that Jersey modules depend on. Jersey is designed
as a pluggable component architecture and different applications can therefore require different sets of
Jersey modules. This also means that the set of external Jersey dependencies required to be included in the
application dependencies may vary in each application based on the Jersey modules that are being used
by the application.

Developers using Maven or a Maven-aware build system in their projects are likely to find it easier to
include and manage dependencies of their applications compared to developers using ant or other build
systems that are not compatible with Maven. This document will explain to both maven and non-maven
developers how to depend on Jersey modules in their application. Ant developers are likely to find the Ant
Tasks for Maven [http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/index.html] very useful.

2.3. Common Jersey Use Cases

2.3.1. Servlet based application on Glassfish
If you are using Glassfish application server, you don't need to package anything with your application,
everything is already included. You just need to declare (provided) dependency on JAX-RS API to be able
to compile your application.

<dependency>
<groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
<version>2.0.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

If you are using any Jersey specific feature, you will need to depend on Jersey directly.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-servlet</artifactId>

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<version>2.25.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- if you are using Jersey client specific features without the server side -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

2.3.2. Servlet based server-side application

Following dependencies apply to application server (servlet containers) without any integrated JAX-RS
implementation. Then application needs to include JAX-RS API and Jersey implementation in deployed
application.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<!-- if your container implements Servlet API older than 3.0, use "jersey-conta
<artifactId>jersey-container-servlet</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Required only when you are using JAX-RS Client -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

2.3.3. Client application on JDK

Applications running on plain JDK using only client part of JAX-RS specification need to depend only
on client. There are various additional modules which can be added, like for example grizzly or apache
or jetty connector (see dependencies snipped below). Jersey client runs by default with plain JDK (using
HttpUrlConnection). See Chapter 5, Client API. for more details.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

Currently available connectors:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.connectors</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-grizzly-connector</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>

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<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.connectors</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-apache-connector</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.connectors</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-jetty-connector</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

2.3.4. Server-side application on supported containers

Apart for a standard JAX-RS Servlet-based deployment that works with any Servlet container that supports
Servlet 2.5 and higher, Jersey provides support for programmatic deployment to the following containers:
Grizzly 2 (HTTP and Servlet), JDK Http server, Simple Http server and Jetty Http server. This chapter
presents only required maven dependencies, more information can be found in Chapter 4, Application
Deployment and Runtime Environments.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-grizzly2-http</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-grizzly2-servlet</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-jdk-http</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-simple-http</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-jetty-http</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-jetty-servlet</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

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2.4. List of modules

The following chapters provide an overview of all Jersey modules and their dependencies with links to the
respective binaries (follow a link on a module name to get complete set of downloadable dependencies).

Table 2.1. Jersey Core

Jersey Core
jersey-client [https:// Jersey core client implementation
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/jersey-client/
dependencies.html]
jersey-common Jersey core common packages
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/jersey-common/
dependencies.html]
jersey-server [https:// Jersey core server implementation
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/jersey-server/
dependencies.html]

Table 2.2. Jersey Containers

Jersey Containers
jersey-container- Grizzly 2 Http Container.
grizzly2-http [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
container-grizzly2-http/
dependencies.html]
jersey-container- Grizzly 2 Servlet Container.
grizzly2-servlet
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
jersey-container-
grizzly2-servlet/
dependencies.html]
jersey-container- JDK Http Container
jdk-http [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
container-jdk-http/
dependencies.html]
jersey-container- Jetty Http Container
jetty-http [https://

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Jersey Containers
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
container-jetty-http/
dependencies.html]
jersey-container- Jetty Servlet Container
jetty-servlet [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
container-jetty-servlet/
dependencies.html]
jersey-container- Netty Http Container.
netty-http [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
container-netty-http/
dependencies.html]
jersey-container-servlet Jersey core Servlet 3.x implementation
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
container-servlet/
dependencies.html]
jersey-container- Jersey core Servlet 2.x implementation
servlet-core [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
container-servlet-core/
dependencies.html]
jersey-container- Simple Http Container
simple-http [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
container-simple-http/
dependencies.html]
jersey-gf-ejb [https:// Jersey EJB for GlassFish integration
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
project/jersey-gf-ejb/
dependencies.html]

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Table 2.3. Jersey Connectors

Jersey Connectors
jersey-apache- Jersey Client Transport via Apache
connector [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
apache-connector/
dependencies.html]
jersey-grizzly- Jersey Client Transport via Grizzly
connector [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
grizzly-connector/
dependencies.html]
jersey-jetty-connector Jersey Client Transport via Jetty
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
jetty-connector/
dependencies.html]
jersey-netty-connector Jersey Client Transport via Netty
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
netty-connector/
dependencies.html]

Table 2.4. Jersey Media

Jersey Media
jersey-media-jaxb JAX-RS features based upon JAX-B.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
jersey-media-jaxb/
dependencies.html]
jersey-media-json- Jersey JSON Jackson (2.x) entity providers support module.
jackson [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
media-json-jackson/
dependencies.html]
jersey-media-json- Jersey JSON Jackson (1.x) entity providers support module.
jackson1 [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-

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Jersey Media
media-json-jackson1/
dependencies.html]
jersey-media-json- Jersey JSON Jettison entity providers support module.
jettison [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
media-json-jettison/
dependencies.html]
jersey-media-json- Jersey JSON-P (JSR 353) entity providers support proxy module.
processing [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/jersey-media-
json-processing/
dependencies.html]
jersey-media-kryo Jersey/JAX-RS Message Body Writer and Reader using Kryo serialization framework
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
jersey-media-kryo/
dependencies.html]
jersey-media-moxy Jersey JSON entity providers support module based on EclipseLink MOXy.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
jersey-media-moxy/
dependencies.html]
jersey-media-multipart Jersey Multipart entity providers support module.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
media-multipart/
dependencies.html]
jersey-media-sse Jersey Server Sent Events entity providers support module.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
jersey-media-sse/
dependencies.html]

Table 2.5. Jersey Extensions

Jersey Extensions
jersey-bean-validation Jersey extension module providing support for Bean Validation (JSR-349) API.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
bean-validation/
dependencies.html]

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Jersey Extensions
jersey-cdi1x [https:// Jersey CDI 1.1 integration
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
project/jersey-cdi1x/
dependencies.html]
jersey-cdi1x-ban- Jersey CDI integration - this module disables custom HK2 bindings
custom-hk2-binding
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-cdi1x-ban-
custom-hk2-binding/
dependencies.html]
jersey-cdi1x-servlet Jersey CDI 1.x Servlet Support
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-cdi1x-servlet/
dependencies.html]
jersey-cdi1x- Jersey CDI 1.x Transactional Support
transaction [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/project/jersey-
cdi1x-transaction/
dependencies.html]
jersey-cdi1x-validation Jersey CDI 1.x Bean Validation Support
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-cdi1x-validation/
dependencies.html]
jersey-declarative- Jersey support for declarative hyperlinking.
linking [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
declarative-linking/
dependencies.html]
jersey-entity-filtering Jersey extension module providing support for Entity Data Filtering.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
entity-filtering/
dependencies.html]
jersey-metainf-services Jersey extension module enabling automatic registration of JAX-RS providers (MBW/
[https://jersey.java.net/ MBR/EM) via META-INF/services mechanism.
project-info/2.25.1/

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Jersey Extensions
jersey/project/jersey-
metainf-services/
dependencies.html]
jersey-mvc [https:// Jersey extension module providing support for MVC.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/jersey-mvc/
dependencies.html]
jersey-mvc-bean- Jersey extension module providing support for Bean Validation in MVC.
validation [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/jersey-mvc-
bean-validation/
dependencies.html]
jersey-mvc-freemarker Jersey extension module providing support for Freemarker templates.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
mvc-freemarker/
dependencies.html]
jersey-mvc-jsp [https:// Jersey extension module providing support for JSP templates.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/jersey-mvc-jsp/
dependencies.html]
jersey-mvc-mustache Jersey extension module providing support for Mustache templates.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
mvc-mustache/
dependencies.html]
jersey-proxy-client Jersey extension module providing support for (proxy-based) high-level client API.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
jersey-proxy-client/
dependencies.html]
jersey-rx-client Jersey Reactive Client extension implementation.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-rx-client/
dependencies.html]
jersey-rx-client-guava Jersey Reactive Client - Guava (ListenableFuture) provider.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/

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Jersey Extensions
jersey-rx-client-guava/
dependencies.html]
jersey-rx-client-java8 Jersey Reactive Client - Java 8 (CompletionStage) provider.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-rx-client-java8/
dependencies.html]
jersey-rx-client-jsr166e Jersey Reactive Client - JSR-166e, pre-Java 8, (CompletableFuture) provider.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-rx-client-jsr166e/
dependencies.html]
jersey-rx-client-rxjava Jersey Reactive Client - RxJava (Observable) provider.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-rx-client-rxjava/
dependencies.html]
jersey-servlet- Library that enables writing web applications that run with both Jersey 1.x and Jersey 2.x
portability [https:// servlet containers.
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jersey-
servlet-portability/
dependencies.html]
jersey-spring3 [https:// Jersey extension module providing support for Spring 3 integration.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/jersey-spring3/
dependencies.html]
jersey-wadl-doclet A doclet that generates a resourcedoc xml file: this file contains the javadoc
[https://jersey.java.net/ documentation of resource classes, so that this can be used for extending generated wadl
project-info/2.25.1/ with useful documentation.
jersey/project/
jersey-wadl-doclet/
dependencies.html]
jersey-weld2-se WELD 2.x SE support
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-weld2-se/
dependencies.html]

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Table 2.6. Jersey Test Framework

Jersey Test Framework

container-runner- The container runner maven plugin provides means to start and stop a container
maven-plugin [https:// (currently, Weblogic, Tomcat and Glassfish4 are supported). To deploy an application to
jersey.java.net/project- this container or to repetitively redeploy and test an application in the container.
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/project/
container-runner-
maven-plugin/
dependencies.html]
custom-enforcer-rules Jersey test framework Maven projects
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
custom-enforcer-rules/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework Core
core [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/jersey-test-
framework-core/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework Providers Bundle
provider-bundle
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-test-framework-
provider-bundle/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - External container
provider-external
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-test-framework-
provider-external/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - Grizzly2 container
provider-grizzly2
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-test-framework-
provider-grizzly2/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - InMemory container
provider-inmemory
[https://jersey.java.net/

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Jersey Test Framework

project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-test-framework-
provider-inmemory/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - JDK HTTP container
provider-jdk-http
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-test-framework-
provider-jdk-http/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - Jetty HTTP container
provider-jetty [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/project/jersey-
test-framework-
provider-jetty/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - Netty container
provider-netty [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/project/jersey-
test-framework-
provider-netty/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - Simple HTTP container
provider-simple
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-test-framework-
provider-simple/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework Utils
util [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/jersey-test-
framework-util/
dependencies.html]
memleak-test-common Jersey test framework umbrella project
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
memleak-test-common/
dependencies.html]

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Table 2.7. Jersey Test Framework Providers

Jersey Test Framework Providers

jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework Providers Bundle
provider-bundle
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-test-framework-
provider-bundle/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - External container
provider-external
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-test-framework-
provider-external/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - Grizzly2 container
provider-grizzly2
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-test-framework-
provider-grizzly2/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - InMemory container
provider-inmemory
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-test-framework-
provider-inmemory/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - JDK HTTP container
provider-jdk-http
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-test-framework-
provider-jdk-http/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - Jetty HTTP container
provider-jetty [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/project/jersey-
test-framework-
provider-jetty/
dependencies.html]

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Jersey Test Framework Providers

jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - Netty container
provider-netty [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/project/jersey-
test-framework-
provider-netty/
dependencies.html]
jersey-test-framework- Jersey Test Framework - Simple HTTP container
provider-simple
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/project/
jersey-test-framework-
provider-simple/
dependencies.html]

Table 2.8. Jersey Glassfish Bundles

Jersey Glassfish Bundles

jersey-gf-ejb [https:// Jersey EJB for GlassFish integration
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
project/jersey-gf-ejb/
dependencies.html]

Table 2.9. Security

Security
oauth1-client [https:// Module that adds an OAuth 1 support to Jersey client.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/oauth1-client/
dependencies.html]
oauth1-server [https:// Module that adds an OAuth 1 support to Jersey server
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/oauth1-server/
dependencies.html]
oauth1-signature OAuth1 signature module
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
oauth1-signature/
dependencies.html]
oauth2-client [https:// Module that adds an OAuth 2 support to Jersey client
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/

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Security
project/oauth2-client/
dependencies.html]

Table 2.10. Jersey Examples

Jersey Examples
additional-bundle OSGi Helloworld Webapp - additional bundle
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/osgi-
helloworld-webapp/
additional-bundle/
dependencies.html]
alternate-version- OSGi Helloworld Webapp - alternate version bundle
bundle [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/osgi-helloworld-
webapp/alternate-
version-bundle/
dependencies.html]
assemblies [https:// Jersey examples shared assembly types.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/assemblies/
dependencies.html]
bean-validation- Jersey Bean Validation (JSR-349) example.
webapp [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/webapp-
example-parent/bean-
validation-webapp/
dependencies.html]
bookmark [https:// Jersey Bookmark example.
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
webapp-example-
parent/bookmark/
dependencies.html]
bookmark-em [https:// Jersey Bookmark example using EntityManager.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/webapp-
example-parent/
bookmark-em/
dependencies.html]
bookstore-webapp Jersey MVC Bookstore example.
[https://jersey.java.net/

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project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/webapp-
example-parent/
bookstore-webapp/
dependencies.html]
bundle [https:// OSGi HttpService example bundle
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/osgi-
http-service/bundle/
dependencies.html]
cdi-webapp [https:// Jersey CDI example.
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
webapp-example-
parent/cdi-webapp/
dependencies.html]
clipboard [https:// Jersey clipboard example.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/clipboard/
dependencies.html]
clipboard- Jersey programmatic resource API clipboard example.
programmatic [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/clipboard-
programmatic/
dependencies.html]
declarative-linking Declarative Hyperlinking - Jersey Sample
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
declarative-linking/
dependencies.html]
entity-filtering [https:// Jersey Entity Data Filtering Example.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/entity-filtering/
dependencies.html]
entity-filtering-security Jersey Entity Data Filtering Security Example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/entity-
filtering-security/
dependencies.html]
entity-filtering- Jersey Entity Data Filtering Selectable Example.
selectable [https://

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jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/entity-
filtering-selectable/
dependencies.html]
exception-mapping Jersey example showing exception mappers in action.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
exception-mapping/
dependencies.html]
extended-wadl-webapp Extended WADL example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/webapp-
example-parent/
extended-wadl-webapp/
dependencies.html]
feed-combiner-java8- Jersey Web Application (Servlet) examples parent POM.
webapp [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/webapp-
example-parent/
feed-combiner-
java8-webapp/
dependencies.html]
flight-management- Jersey Flight Management Demo Web Application Example
webapp [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/webapp-
example-parent/flight-
management-webapp/
dependencies.html]
freemarker-webapp Jersey Freemarker example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/webapp-
example-parent/
freemarker-webapp/
dependencies.html]
functional-test [https:// Jersey examples
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/osgi-helloworld-
webapp/functional-test/
dependencies.html]

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Jersey Examples
functional-test [https:// OSGi HttpService example
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/osgi-http-
service/functional-test/
dependencies.html]
groovy [https:// Groovy Jersey
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/groovy/
dependencies.html]
helloworld [https:// Jersey annotated resource class "Hello world" example.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/helloworld/
dependencies.html]
helloworld-benchmark Jersey "Hello World" benchmark example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
helloworld-benchmark/
dependencies.html]
helloworld-netty Jersey "Hello world" example on Netty container.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
helloworld-netty/
dependencies.html]
helloworld- Jersey programmatic resource API "Hello world" example.
programmatic [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/helloworld-
programmatic/
dependencies.html]
helloworld-pure-jax-rs Example using only the standard JAX-RS API's and the lightweight HTTP server
[https://jersey.java.net/ bundled in JDK.
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
helloworld-pure-jax-rs/
dependencies.html]
helloworld-spring- Spring 3 Integration Jersey Example
annotations [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/helloworld-
spring-annotations/
dependencies.html]

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Jersey Examples
helloworld-spring- Spring 3 Integration Jersey Example
webapp [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/helloworld-
spring-webapp/
dependencies.html]
helloworld-webapp Jersey annotated resource class "Hello world" example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/webapp-
example-parent/
helloworld-webapp/
dependencies.html]
helloworld-weld Jersey annotated resource class "Hello world" example with Weld support.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
helloworld-weld/
dependencies.html]
http-patch [https:// Jersey example for implementing generic PATCH support via JAX-RS reader interceptor.
jersey.java.net/project- Taken from Gerard Davison's blog entry: http://kingsfleet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/
info/2.25.1/jersey/ transparent-patch-support-in-jax-rs-20.html
project/http-patch/
dependencies.html]
http-trace [https:// Jersey HTTP TRACE support example.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/http-trace/
dependencies.html]
https-clientserver- Jersey HTTPS Client/Server example on Grizzly.
grizzly [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/https-
clientserver-grizzly/
dependencies.html]
https-server-glassfish Jersey HTTPS server on GlassFish example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/webapp-
example-parent/https-
server-glassfish/
dependencies.html]
java8-webapp [https:// Java 8 Types WebApp Example.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/webapp-
example-parent/

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java8-webapp/
dependencies.html]
jaxb [https:// Jersey JAXB example.
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jaxb/
dependencies.html]
jaxrs-types-injection Jersey JAX-RS types injection example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/jaxrs-
types-injection/
dependencies.html]
jersey-ejb [https:// Jersey Web Application (Servlet) examples parent POM.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/webapp-
example-parent/jersey-
ejb/dependencies.html]
json-jackson [https:// Jersey JSON with Jackson example.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/json-jackson/
dependencies.html]
json-jackson1 [https:// Jersey JSON with Jackson 1.x example.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/json-jackson1/
dependencies.html]
json-jettison [https:// Jersey JSON with Jettison JAXB example.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/json-jettison/
dependencies.html]
json-moxy [https:// Jersey JSON with MOXy example.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/json-moxy/
dependencies.html]
json-processing- Jersey JSON-P (JSR 353) example.
webapp [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/webapp-
example-parent/json-
processing-webapp/
dependencies.html]
json-with-padding Jersey JSON with Padding example.
[https://jersey.java.net/

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project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
json-with-padding/
dependencies.html]
lib-bundle [https:// OSGi Helloworld Webapp - lib bundle
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/osgi-helloworld-
webapp/lib-bundle/
dependencies.html]
managed-beans- Jersey Managed Beans Web Application Example.
webapp [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
webapp-example-
parent/managed-
beans-webapp/
dependencies.html]
managed-client Jersey managed client example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
managed-client/
dependencies.html]
managed-client- Jersey Web Application (Servlet) examples parent POM.
simple-webapp [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/webapp-
example-parent/
managed-client-
simple-webapp/
dependencies.html]
managed-client- Jersey managed client web application example.
webapp [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
webapp-example-
parent/managed-
client-webapp/
dependencies.html]
monitoring-webapp Jersey Web Application (Servlet) examples parent POM.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/webapp-
example-parent/
monitoring-webapp/
dependencies.html]

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multipart-webapp Jersey Multipart example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/webapp-
example-parent/
multipart-webapp/
dependencies.html]
oauth-client-twitter Twitter client using OAuth 1 support for Jersey that retrieves Tweets from the home
[https://jersey.java.net/ timeline of a registered Twitter account.
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
oauth-client-twitter/
dependencies.html]
oauth2-client-google- Google API data retrieving example using OAuth2 for authentication and authorization
webapp [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/oauth2-client-
google-webapp/
dependencies.html]
osgi-helloworld- Jersey examples
webapp [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/osgi-
helloworld-webapp/
dependencies.html]
osgi-http-service OSGi HttpService example
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
osgi-http-service/
dependencies.html]
reload [https:// Jersey resource configuration reload example.
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/reload/
dependencies.html]
rx-client-java8-webapp Jersey Reactive Client Extension (Java8) WebApp Example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/webapp-
example-parent/rx-
client-java8-webapp/
dependencies.html]
rx-client-webapp Jersey Reactive Client Extension WebApp Example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/webapp-

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example-parent/
rx-client-webapp/
dependencies.html]
server-async [https:// Jersey JAX-RS asynchronous server-side example.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/server-async/
dependencies.html]
server-async-managed Jersey JAX-RS asynchronous server-side example with custom Jersey executor providers.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/server-
async-managed/
dependencies.html]
server-async- Standalone Jersey JAX-RS asynchronous server-side processing example.
standalone [https://
jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/server-
async-standalone/
dependencies.html]
server-async- Standalone Jersey JAX-RS asynchronous server-side processing example client.
standalone-client
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/server-
async-standalone/
server-async-
standalone-client/
dependencies.html]
server-async- Standalone Jersey JAX-RS asynchronous server-side processing example web
standalone-webapp application.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/server-
async-standalone/
server-async-
standalone-webapp/
dependencies.html]
server-sent-events Jersey Server-Sent Events example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
server-sent-events/
dependencies.html]
servlet3-webapp Jersey Servlet 3 example with missing servlet-class in the web.xml file
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/webapp-

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Jersey Examples
example-parent/
servlet3-webapp/
dependencies.html]
shortener-webapp Jersey Shortener Webapp (MVC + Bean Validation).
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/webapp-
example-parent/
shortener-webapp/
dependencies.html]
simple-console Jersey Simple Console example
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/
simple-console/
dependencies.html]
sparklines [https:// Jersey examples
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/sparklines/
dependencies.html]
sse-item-store-webapp Jersey SSE-based item store example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/webapp-
example-parent/sse-
item-store-webapp/
dependencies.html]
sse-twitter-aggregator Jersey SSE Twitter Message Aggregator Example.
[https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/
jersey/project/sse-
twitter-aggregator/
dependencies.html]
system-properties- Jersey system properties example.
example [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/system-
properties-example/
dependencies.html]
tone-generator [https:// Jersey examples
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/tone-generator/
dependencies.html]
war-bundle [https:// OSGi Helloworld Webapp WAR bundle
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/

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project/osgi-helloworld-
webapp/war-bundle/
dependencies.html]
webapp-example- Jersey Web Application (Servlet) examples parent POM.
parent [https://
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/webapp-
example-parent/
dependencies.html]
xml-moxy [https:// Jersey XML MOXy example.
jersey.java.net/project-
info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/xml-moxy/
dependencies.html]

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Resources and Sub-Resources
This chapter presents an overview of the core JAX-RS concepts - resources and sub-resources.

The JAX-RS 2.0.1 JavaDoc can be found online here [http://jax-rs-spec.java.net/nonav/2.0.1/apidocs/

index.html].

The JAX-RS 2.0.1 specification draft can be found online here [http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=339].

3.1. Root Resource Classes

Root resource classes are POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) that are annotated with @Path
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] have at least one method
annotated with @Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] or a
resource method designator annotation such as @GET [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/GET.html], @PUT [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/PUT.html],
@POST [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/POST.html], @DELETE [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/DELETE.html]. Resource methods are methods of
a resource class annotated with a resource method designator. This section shows how to use Jersey to
annotate Java objects to create RESTful web services.

The following code example is a very simple example of a root resource class using JAX-RS annotations.
The example code shown here is from one of the samples that ships with Jersey, the zip file of which can
be found in the maven repository here [https://maven.java.net/content/repositories/releases/org/glassfish/
jersey/examples/helloworld/2.25.1/].

Example 3.1. Simple hello world root resource class

1 package org.glassfish.jersey.examples.helloworld;
2
3 import javax.ws.rs.GET;
4 import javax.ws.rs.Path;
5 import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
6
7 @Path("helloworld")
8 public class HelloWorldResource {
9 public static final String CLICHED_MESSAGE = "Hello World!";
10
11 @GET
12 @Produces("text/plain")
13 public String getHello() {
14 return CLICHED_MESSAGE;
15 }
16 }

Let's look at some of the JAX-RS annotations used in this example.

3.1.1. @Path
The @Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] annotation's value is
a relative URI path. In the example above, the Java class will be hosted at the URI path /helloworld.

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This is an extremely simple use of the @Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/

rs/Path.html] annotation. What makes JAX-RS so useful is that you can embed variables in the URIs.

URI path templates are URIs with variables embedded within the URI syntax. These variables are
substituted at runtime in order for a resource to respond to a request based on the substituted URI. Variables
are denoted by curly braces. For example, look at the following @Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] annotation:

@Path("/users/{username}")

In this type of example, a user will be prompted to enter their name, and then a Jersey web service
configured to respond to requests to this URI path template will respond. For example, if the user
entered their username as "Galileo", the web service will respond to the following URL: http://
example.com/users/Galileo

To obtain the value of the username variable the @PathParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-

rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/PathParam.html] may be used on method parameter of a request method, for example:

Example 3.2. Specifying URI path parameter

1 @Path("/users/{username}")
2 public class UserResource {
3
4 @GET
5 @Produces("text/xml")
6 public String getUser(@PathParam("username") String userName) {
7 ...
8 }
9 }

If it is required that a user name must only consist of lower and upper case numeric characters then it is
possible to declare a particular regular expression, which overrides the default regular expression, "[^/]+",
for example:

@Path("users/{username: [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z_0-9]*}")

In this type of example the username variable will only match user names that begin with one upper or
lower case letter and zero or more alpha numeric characters and the underscore character. If a user name
does not match that a 404 (Not Found) response will occur.

A @Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] value may or may not

begin with a '/', it makes no difference. Likewise, by default, a @Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] value may or may not end in a '/', it makes no difference, and
thus request URLs that end or do not end in a '/' will both be matched.

3.1.2. @GET, @PUT, @POST, @DELETE, ... (HTTP

Methods)
@GET [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/GET.html], @PUT [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/PUT.html], @POST [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/POST.html], @DELETE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/DELETE.html] and @HEAD [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/HEAD.html] are resource method designator annotations defined by JAX-RS and
which correspond to the similarly named HTTP methods. In the example above, the annotated Java method

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will process HTTP GET requests. The behavior of a resource is determined by which of the HTTP methods
the resource is responding to.

The following example is an extract from the storage service sample that shows the use of the PUT method
to create or update a storage container:

Example 3.3. PUT method

1 @PUT
2 public Response putContainer() {
3 System.out.println("PUT CONTAINER " + container);
4
5 URI uri = uriInfo.getAbsolutePath();
6 Container c = new Container(container, uri.toString());
7
8 Response r;
9 if (!MemoryStore.MS.hasContainer(c)) {
10 r = Response.created(uri).build();
11 } else {
12 r = Response.noContent().build();
13 }
14
15 MemoryStore.MS.createContainer(c);
16 return r;
17 }

By default the JAX-RS runtime will automatically support the methods HEAD and OPTIONS, if not
explicitly implemented. For HEAD the runtime will invoke the implemented GET method (if present) and
ignore the response entity (if set). A response returned for the OPTIONS method depends on the requested
media type defined in the 'Accept' header. The OPTIONS method can return a response with a set of
supported resource methods in the 'Allow' header or return a WADL [http://wadl.java.net/] document. See
wadl section for more information.

3.1.3. @Produces
The @Produces [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Produces.html] annotation
is used to specify the MIME media types of representations a resource can produce and send
back to the client. In this example, the Java method will produce representations identified by the
MIME media type "text/plain". @Produces [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
Produces.html] can be applied at both the class and method levels. Here's an example:

Example 3.4. Specifying output MIME type

1 @Path("/myResource")
2 @Produces("text/plain")
3 public class SomeResource {
4 @GET
5 public String doGetAsPlainText() {
6 ...
7 }
8
9 @GET
10 @Produces("text/html")
11 public String doGetAsHtml() {
12 ...

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13 }
14 }

The doGetAsPlainText method defaults to the MIME type of the @Produces [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Produces.html] annotation at the class level.
The doGetAsHtml method's @Produces [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
Produces.html] annotation overrides the class-level @Produces [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Produces.html] setting, and specifies that the method can produce HTML rather than
plain text.

If a resource class is capable of producing more that one MIME media type then the resource method
chosen will correspond to the most acceptable media type as declared by the client. More specifically the
Accept header of the HTTP request declares what is most acceptable. For example if the Accept header
is "Accept: text/plain" then the doGetAsPlainText method will be invoked. Alternatively
if the Accept header is " Accept: text/plain;q=0.9, text/html", which declares that the
client can accept media types of "text/plain" and "text/html" but prefers the latter, then the doGetAsHtml
method will be invoked.

More than one media type may be declared in the same @Produces [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Produces.html] declaration, for example:

Example 3.5. Using multiple output MIME types

1 @GET
2 @Produces({"application/xml", "application/json"})
3 public String doGetAsXmlOrJson() {
4 ...
5 }

The doGetAsXmlOrJson method will get invoked if either of the media types "application/xml" and
"application/json" are acceptable. If both are equally acceptable then the former will be chosen because
it occurs first.

Optionally, server can also specify the quality factor for individual media types. These are considered if
several are equally acceptable by the client. For example:

Example 3.6. Server-side content negotiation

1 @GET
2 @Produces({"application/xml; qs=0.9", "application/json"})
3 public String doGetAsXmlOrJson() {
4 ...
5 }

In the above sample, if client accepts both "application/xml" and "application/json" (equally), then a server
always sends "application/json", since "application/xml" has a lower quality factor.

The examples above refers explicitly to MIME media types for clarity. It is possible to refer to constant
values, which may reduce typographical errors, see the constant field values of MediaType [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/MediaType.html].

3.1.4. @Consumes
The @Consumes [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Consumes.html]
annotation is used to specify the MIME media types of representations that can be consumed by a resource.
The above example can be modified to set the cliched message as follows:

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Example 3.7. Specifying input MIME type

1 @POST
2 @Consumes("text/plain")
3 public void postClichedMessage(String message) {
4 // Store the message
5 }

In this example, the Java method will consume representations identified by the MIME media type "text/
plain". Notice that the resource method returns void. This means no representation is returned and response
with a status code of 204 (No Content) will be returned to the client.

@Consumes [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Consumes.html] can be

applied at both the class and the method levels and more than one media type may be declared in the same
@Consumes [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Consumes.html] declaration.

3.2. Parameter Annotations (@*Param)

Parameters of a resource method may be annotated with parameter-based annotations to extract
information from a request. One of the previous examples presented the use of @PathParam [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/PathParam.html] to extract a path parameter from
the path component of the request URL that matched the path declared in @Path [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html].

@QueryParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/QueryParam.html] is used

to extract query parameters from the Query component of the request URL. The following example is an
extract from the sparklines sample:

Example 3.8. Query parameters

1 @Path("smooth")
2 @GET
3 public Response smooth(
4 @DefaultValue("2") @QueryParam("step") int step,
5 @DefaultValue("true") @QueryParam("min-m") boolean hasMin,
6 @DefaultValue("true") @QueryParam("max-m") boolean hasMax,
7 @DefaultValue("true") @QueryParam("last-m") boolean hasLast,
8 @DefaultValue("blue") @QueryParam("min-color") ColorParam minColor,
9 @DefaultValue("green") @QueryParam("max-color") ColorParam maxColor,
10 @DefaultValue("red") @QueryParam("last-color") ColorParam lastColor) {
11 ...
12 }

If a query parameter "step" exists in the query component of the request URI then the "step" value will be
extracted and parsed as a 32 bit signed integer and assigned to the step method parameter. If "step" does not
exist then a default value of 2, as declared in the @DefaultValue [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/DefaultValue.html] annotation, will be assigned to the step method parameter. If the
"step" value cannot be parsed as a 32 bit signed integer then a HTTP 404 (Not Found) response is returned.
User defined Java types such as ColorParam may be used, which as implemented as follows:

Example 3.9. Custom Java type for consuming request parameters

1 public class ColorParam extends Color {
2

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3 public ColorParam(String s) {
4 super(getRGB(s));
5 }
6
7 private static int getRGB(String s) {
8 if (s.charAt(0) == '#') {
9 try {
10 Color c = Color.decode("0x" + s.substring(1));
11 return c.getRGB();
12 } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
13 throw new WebApplicationException(400);
14 }
15 } else {
16 try {
17 Field f = Color.class.getField(s);
18 return ((Color)f.get(null)).getRGB();
19 } catch (Exception e) {
20 throw new WebApplicationException(400);
21 }
22 }
23 }
24 }

In general the Java type of the method parameter may:

1. Be a primitive type;

2. Have a constructor that accepts a single String argument;

3. Have a static method named valueOf or fromString that accepts a

single String argument (see, for example, Integer.valueOf(String) and
java.util.UUID.fromString(String));

4. Have a registered implementation of javax.ws.rs.ext.ParamConverterProvider JAX-RS

extension SPI that returns a javax.ws.rs.ext.ParamConverter instance capable of a "from
string" conversion for the type. or

5. Be List<T>, Set<T> or SortedSet<T>, where T satisfies 2 or 3 above. The resulting collection

is read-only.

Sometimes parameters may contain more than one value for the same name. If this is the case then types
in 5) may be used to obtain all values.

If the @DefaultValue [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/DefaultValue.html] is

not used in conjunction with @QueryParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/QueryParam.html] and the query parameter is not present in the request then value will be an empty
collection forList, Set or SortedSet, null for other object types, and the Java-defined default for
primitive types.

The @PathParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/PathParam.html] and the

other parameter-based annotations, @MatrixParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/MatrixParam.html], @HeaderParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/
ws/rs/HeaderParam.html], @CookieParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/CookieParam.html], @FormParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
FormParam.html] obey the same rules as @QueryParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/QueryParam.html]. @MatrixParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-

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rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/MatrixParam.html] extracts information from URL path segments. @HeaderParam

[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/HeaderParam.html] extracts information
from the HTTP headers. @CookieParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
CookieParam.html] extracts information from the cookies declared in cookie related HTTP headers.

@FormParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/FormParam.html] is slightly

special because it extracts information from a request representation that is of the MIME media type
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" and conforms to the encoding specified by HTML
forms, as described here. This parameter is very useful for extracting information that is POSTed by HTML
forms, for example the following extracts the form parameter named "name" from the POSTed form data:

Example 3.10. Processing POSTed HTML form

1 @POST
2 @Consumes("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
3 public void post(@FormParam("name") String name) {
4 // Store the message
5 }

If it is necessary to obtain a general map of parameter name to values then, for query and path parameters
it is possible to do the following:

Example 3.11. Obtaining general map of URI path and/or query parameters
1 @GET
2 public String get(@Context UriInfo ui) {
3 MultivaluedMap<String, String> queryParams = ui.getQueryParameters();
4 MultivaluedMap<String, String> pathParams = ui.getPathParameters();
5 }

For header and cookie parameters the following:

Example 3.12. Obtaining general map of header parameters

1 @GET
2 public String get(@Context HttpHeaders hh) {
3 MultivaluedMap<String, String> headerParams = hh.getRequestHeaders();
4 Map<String, Cookie> pathParams = hh.getCookies();
5 }

In general @Context [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Context.html]

can be used to obtain contextual Java types related to the request or response.

Because form parameters (unlike others) are part of the message entity, it is possible to do the following:

Example 3.13. Obtaining general map of form parameters

1 @POST
2 @Consumes("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
3 public void post(MultivaluedMap<String, String> formParams) {
4 // Store the message
5 }

I.e. you don't need to use the @Context [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/

core/Context.html] annotation.

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Another kind of injection is the @BeanParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/

ws/rs/BeanParam.html] which allows to inject the parameters described above into a single
bean. A bean annotated with @BeanParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/
ws/rs/BeanParam.html] containing any fields and appropriate *param annotation(like @PathParam
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/PathParam.html]) will be initialized with
corresponding request values in expected way as if these fields were in the resource class. Then instead
of injecting request values like path param into a constructor parameters or class fields the @BeanParam
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/BeanParam.html] can be used to inject such
a bean into a resource or resource method. The @BeanParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/BeanParam.html] is used this way to aggregate more request parameters into a single
bean.

Example 3.14. Example of the bean which will be used as @BeanParam [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/BeanParam.html]
1 public class MyBeanParam {
2 @PathParam("p")
3 private String pathParam;
4
5 @MatrixParam("m")
6 @Encoded
7 @DefaultValue("default")
8 private String matrixParam;
9
10 @HeaderParam("header")
11 private String headerParam;
12
13 private String queryParam;
14
15 public MyBeanParam(@QueryParam("q") String queryParam) {
16 this.queryParam = queryParam;
17 }
18
19 public String getPathParam() {
20 return pathParam;
21 }
22 ...
23 }

Example 3.15. Injection of MyBeanParam as a method parameter:

1 @POST
2 public void post(@BeanParam MyBeanParam beanParam, String entity) {
3 final String pathParam = beanParam.getPathParam(); // contains injected pat
4 ...
5 }

The example shows aggregation of injections @PathParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-

rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/PathParam.html], @QueryParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/QueryParam.html] @MatrixParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/
ws/rs/MatrixParam.html] and @HeaderParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/
ws/rs/HeaderParam.html] into one single bean. The rules for injections inside the bean are the
same as described above for these injections. The @DefaultValue [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/DefaultValue.html] is used to define the default value for matrix

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parameter matrixParam. Also the @Encoded [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/

rs/Encoded.html] annotation has the same behaviour as if it were used for injection in the resource method
directly. Injecting the bean parameter into @Singleton resource class fields is not allowed (injections into
method parameter must be used instead).

@BeanParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/BeanParam.html] can

contain all parameters injections injections (@PathParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/PathParam.html], @QueryParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/QueryParam.html], @MatrixParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/
ws/rs/MatrixParam.html], @HeaderParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/HeaderParam.html], @CookieParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/CookieParam.html], @FormParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
FormParam.html]). More beans can be injected into one resource or method parameters even if they inject
the same request values. For example the following is possible:

Example 3.16. Injection of more beans into one resource methods:

1 @POST
2 public void post(@BeanParam MyBeanParam beanParam, @BeanParam AnotherBean anoth
3 String entity) {
4 // beanParam.getPathParam() == pathParam
5 ...
6 }

3.3. Sub-resources
@Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] may be used on classes
and such classes are referred to as root resource classes. @Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] may also be used on methods of root resource classes. This enables
common functionality for a number of resources to be grouped together and potentially reused.

The first way @Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] may be

used is on resource methods and such methods are referred to as sub-resource methods. The following
example shows the method signatures for a root resource class from the jmaki-backend sample:

Example 3.17. Sub-resource methods

1 @Singleton
2 @Path("/printers")
3 public class PrintersResource {
4
5 @GET
6 @Produces({"application/json", "application/xml"})
7 public WebResourceList getMyResources() { ... }
8
9 @GET @Path("/list")
10 @Produces({"application/json", "application/xml"})
11 public WebResourceList getListOfPrinters() { ... }
12
13 @GET @Path("/jMakiTable")
14 @Produces("application/json")
15 public PrinterTableModel getTable() { ... }
16
17 @GET @Path("/jMakiTree")

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18 @Produces("application/json")
19 public TreeModel getTree() { ... }
20
21 @GET @Path("/ids/{printerid}")
22 @Produces({"application/json", "application/xml"})
23 public Printer getPrinter(@PathParam("printerid") String printerId) { ... }
24
25 @PUT @Path("/ids/{printerid}")
26 @Consumes({"application/json", "application/xml"})
27 public void putPrinter(@PathParam("printerid") String printerId, Printer pr
28
29 @DELETE @Path("/ids/{printerid}")
30 public void deletePrinter(@PathParam("printerid") String printerId) { ... }
31 }

If the path of the request URL is "printers" then the resource methods not annotated with @Path
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] will be selected. If the request
path of the request URL is "printers/list" then first the root resource class will be matched and then
the sub-resource methods that match "list" will be selected, which in this case is the sub-resource
methodgetListOfPrinters. So, in this example hierarchical matching on the path of the request
URL is performed.

The second way @Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] may be

used is on methods not annotated with resource method designators such as @GET [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/GET.html] or @POST [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/POST.html]. Such methods are referred to as sub-resource locators. The following
example shows the method signatures for a root resource class and a resource class from the optimistic-
concurrency sample:

Example 3.18. Sub-resource locators

1 @Path("/item")
2 public class ItemResource {
3 @Context UriInfo uriInfo;
4
5 @Path("content")
6 public ItemContentResource getItemContentResource() {
7 return new ItemContentResource();
8 }
9
10 @GET
11 @Produces("application/xml")
12 public Item get() { ... }
13 }
14 }
15
16 public class ItemContentResource {
17
18 @GET
19 public Response get() { ... }
20
21 @PUT
22 @Path("{version}")
23 public void put(@PathParam("version") int version,

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24 @Context HttpHeaders headers,

25 byte[] in) {
26 ...
27 }
28 }

The root resource class ItemResource contains the sub-resource locator method
getItemContentResource that returns a new resource class. If the path of the request URL
is "item/content" then first of all the root resource will be matched, then the sub-resource locator
will be matched and invoked, which returns an instance of the ItemContentResource resource
class. Sub-resource locators enable reuse of resource classes. A method can be annotated with the
@Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] annotation with empty
path (@Path("/") or @Path("")) which means that the sub resource locator is matched for the path
of the enclosing resource (without sub-resource path).

Example 3.19. Sub-resource locators with empty path

1 @Path("/item")
2 public class ItemResource {
3
4 @Path("/")
5 public ItemContentResource getItemContentResource() {
6 return new ItemContentResource();
7 }
8 }

In the example above the sub-resource locator method getItemContentResource is matched for
example for request path "/item/locator" or even for only "/item".

In addition the processing of resource classes returned by sub-resource locators is performed at runtime
thus it is possible to support polymorphism. A sub-resource locator may return different sub-types
depending on the request (for example a sub-resource locator could return different sub-types dependent
on the role of the principle that is authenticated). So for example the following sub resource locator is valid:

Example 3.20. Sub-resource locators returning sub-type

1 @Path("/item")
2 public class ItemResource {
3
4 @Path("/")
5 public Object getItemContentResource() {
6 return new AnyResource();
7 }
8 }

Note that the runtime will not manage the life-cycle or perform any field injection onto instances returned
from sub-resource locator methods. This is because the runtime does not know what the life-cycle of the
instance is. If it is required that the runtime manages the sub-resources as standard resources the Class
should be returned as shown in the following example:

Example 3.21. Sub-resource locators created from classes

1 import javax.inject.Singleton;
2
3 @Path("/item")

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4 public class ItemResource {

5 @Path("content")
6 public Class<ItemContentSingletonResource> getItemContentResource() {
7 return ItemContentSingletonResource.class;
8 }
9 }
10
11 @Singleton
12 public class ItemContentSingletonResource {
13 // this class is managed in the singleton life cycle
14 }

JAX-RS resources are managed in per-request scope by default which means that new resource is created
for each request. In this example the javax.inject.Singleton annotation says that the resource
will be managed as singleton and not in request scope. The sub-resource locator method returns a class
which means that the runtime will managed the resource instance and its life-cycle. If the method would
return instance instead, the Singleton annotation would have no effect and the returned instance would
be used.

The sub resource locator can also return a programmatic resource model. See resource builder section for
information of how the programmatic resource model is constructed. The following example shows very
simple resource returned from the sub-resource locator method.

Example 3.22. Sub-resource locators returning resource model

1 import org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.Resource;
2
3 @Path("/item")
4 public class ItemResource {
5
6 @Path("content")
7 public Resource getItemContentResource() {
8 return Resource.from(ItemContentSingletonResource.class);
9 }
10 }

The code above has exactly the same effect as previous example. Resource is a resource simple resource
constructed from ItemContentSingletonResource. More complex programmatic resource can
be returned as long they are valid resources.

3.4. Life-cycle of Root Resource Classes

By default the life-cycle of root resource classes is per-request which, namely that a new instance of a
root resource class is created every time the request URI path matches the root resource. This makes for a
very natural programming model where constructors and fields can be utilized (as in the previous section
showing the constructor of the SparklinesResource class) without concern for multiple concurrent
requests to the same resource.

In general this is unlikely to be a cause of performance issues. Class construction and garbage collection
of JVMs has vastly improved over the years and many objects will be created and discarded to serve and
process the HTTP request and return the HTTP response.

Instances of singleton root resource classes can be declared by an instance of Application [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html].

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Jersey supports two further life-cycles using Jersey specific annotations.

Table 3.1. Resource scopes

Scope AnnotationAnnotation full class Description
name
Request @RequestScoped
org.glassfish.jersey.process.internal.RequestScoped
Default lifecycle (applied when no annotation is present).
scope (or none) In this scope the resource instance is created for each
new request and used for processing of this request. If
the resource is used more than one time in the request
processing, always the same instance will be used. This
can happen when a resource is a sub resource is returned
more times during the matching. In this situation only on
instance will server the requests.
Per- @PerLookup
org.glassfish.hk2.api.PerLookup
In this scope the resource instance is created every time
lookup it is needed for the processing even it handles the same
scope request.
Singleton @Singletonjavax.inject.Singleton In this scope there is only one instance
per jax-rs application. Singleton resource can
be either annotated with @Singleton and its
class can be registered using the instance
of Application [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html]. You can
also create singletons by registering singleton
instances into Application [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html].

3.5. Rules of Injection

Previous sections have presented examples of annotated types, mostly annotated method parameters but
also annotated fields of a class, for the injection of values onto those types.

This section presents the rules of injection of values on annotated types. Injection can be performed on
fields, constructor parameters, resource/sub-resource/sub-resource locator method parameters and bean
setter methods. The following presents an example of all such injection cases:

Example 3.23. Injection

1 @Path("{id:\\d+}")
2 public class InjectedResource {
3 // Injection onto field
4 @DefaultValue("q") @QueryParam("p")
5 private String p;
6
7 // Injection onto constructor parameter
8 public InjectedResource(@PathParam("id") int id) { ... }
9
10 // Injection onto resource method parameter
11 @GET
12 public String get(@Context UriInfo ui) { ... }
13
14 // Injection onto sub-resource resource method parameter

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15 @Path("sub-id")
16 @GET
17 public String get(@PathParam("sub-id") String id) { ... }
18
19 // Injection onto sub-resource locator method parameter
20 @Path("sub-id")
21 public SubResource getSubResource(@PathParam("sub-id") String id) { ... }
22
23 // Injection using bean setter method
24 @HeaderParam("X-header")
25 public void setHeader(String header) { ... }
26 }

There are some restrictions when injecting on to resource classes with a life-cycle of singleton scope. In
such cases the class fields or constructor parameters cannot be injected with request specific parameters.
So, for example the following is not allowed.

Example 3.24. Wrong injection into a singleton scope

1 @Path("resource")
2 @Singleton
3 public static class MySingletonResource {
4
5 @QueryParam("query")
6 String param; // WRONG: initialization of application will fail as you cann
7 // inject request specific parameters into a singleton resour
8
9 @GET
10 public String get() {
11 return "query param: " + param;
12 }
13 }

The example above will cause validation failure during application initialization as singleton resources
cannot inject request specific parameters. The same example would fail if the query parameter would be
injected into constructor parameter of such a singleton. In other words, if you wish one resource instance
to server more requests (in the same time) it cannot be bound to a specific request parameter.

The exception exists for specific request objects which can injected even into constructor or class fields.
For these objects the runtime will inject proxies which are able to simultaneously server more request.
These request objects are HttpHeaders, Request, UriInfo, SecurityContext. These proxies
can be injected using the @Context [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
Context.html] annotation. The following example shows injection of proxies into the singleton resource
class.

Example 3.25. Injection of proxies into singleton

1 @Path("resource")
2 @Singleton
3 public static class MySingletonResource {
4 @Context
5 Request request; // this is ok: the proxy of Request will be injected into
6
7 public MySingletonResource(@Context SecurityContext securityContext) {

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8 // this is ok too: the proxy of SecurityContext will be injected

9 }
10
11 @GET
12 public String get() {
13 return "query param: " + param;
14 }
15 }

To summarize the injection can be done into the following constructs:

Table 3.2. Overview of injection types

Java construct Description
Class fields Inject value directly into the field of the class. The field can be private and must not be
final. Cannot be used in Singleton scope except proxiable types mentioned above.
Constructor The constructor will be invoked with injected values. If more constructors exists the one
parameters with the most injectable parameters will be invoked. Cannot be used in Singleton scope
except proxiable types mentioned above.
Resource The resource methods (these annotated with @GET, @POST, ...) can contain parameters
methods that can be injected when the resource method is executed. Can be used in any scope.
Sub resource The sub resource locators (methods annotated with @Path but not @GET, @POST, ...)
locators can contain parameters that can be injected when the resource method is executed. Can
be used in any scope.
Setter methods Instead of injecting values directly into field the value can be injected into
the setter method which will initialize the field. This injection can be used
only with @Context [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
Context.html] annotation. This means it cannot be used for example for injecting of
query params but it can be used for injections of request. The setters will be called after
the object creation and only once. The name of the method does not necessary have
a setter pattern. Cannot be used in Singleton scope except proxiable types mentioned
above.

The following example shows all possible java constructs into which the values can be injected.

Example 3.26. Example of possible injections

1 @Path("resource")
2 public static class SummaryOfInjectionsResource {
3 @QueryParam("query")
4 String param; // injection into a class field
5
6
7 @GET
8 public String get(@QueryParam("query") String methodQueryParam) {
9 // injection into a resource method parameter
10 return "query param: " + param;
11 }
12
13 @Path("sub-resource-locator")
14 public Class<SubResource> subResourceLocator(@QueryParam("query") String su
15 // injection into a sub resource locator parameter

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16 return SubResource.class;
17 }
18
19 public SummaryOfInjectionsResource(@QueryParam("query") String constructorQ
20 // injection into a constructor parameter
21 }
22
23
24 @Context
25 public void setRequest(Request request) {
26 // injection into a setter method
27 System.out.println(request != null);
28 }
29 }
30
31 public static class SubResource {
32 @GET
33 public String get() {
34 return "sub resource";
35 }
36 }

The @FormParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/FormParam.html]

annotation is special and may only be utilized on resource and sub-resource methods. This is because it
extracts information from a request entity.

3.6. Use of @Context

Previous sections have introduced the use of @Context [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/core/Context.html]. Chapter 5 of the JAX-RS specification presents all the standard JAX-RS
Java types that may be used with @Context [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/core/Context.html].

When deploying a JAX-RS application using servlet then ServletConfig [http://

docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/api/javax/servlet/ServletConfig.html], ServletContext [http://docs.oracle.com/
javaee/5/api/javax/servlet/ServletContext.html], HttpServletRequest [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/api/
javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html] and HttpServletResponse [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/
api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.html] are available using @Context [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Context.html].

3.7. Programmatic resource model

Resources can be constructed from classes or instances but also can be constructed from a programmatic
resource model. Every resource created from from resource classes can also be constructed using the
programmatic resource builder api. See resource builder section for more information.

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4.1. Introduction
This chapter is an overview of various server-side environments currently capable of running JAX-RS
applications on top of Jersey server runtime. Jersey supports wide range of server environments from
lightweight http containers up to full-fledged Java EE servers. Jersey applications can also run in an OSGi
runtime. The way how the application is published depends on whether the application shall run in a Java
SE environment or within a container.

Note
This chapter is focused on server-side Jersey deployment models. The Jersey client runtime does
not have any specific container requirements and runs in plain Java SE 6 or higher runtime.

4.2. JAX-RS Application Model

JAX-RS provides a deployment agnostic abstract class Application [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html] for declaring root resource and provider classes, and
root resource and provider singleton instances. A Web service may extend this class to declare root resource
and provider classes. For example,

Example 4.1. Deployment agnostic application model

1 public class MyApplication extends Application {
2 @Override
3 public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
4 Set<Class<?>> s = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
5 s.add(HelloWorldResource.class);
6 return s;
7 }
8 }

Alternatively it is possible to reuse ResourceConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/

glassfish/jersey/server/ResourceConfig.html] - Jersey's own implementations of Application class.
This class can either be directly instantiated and then configured or it can be extended and the configuration
code placed into the constructor of the extending class. The approach typically depends on the chosen
deployment runtime.

Compared to Application, the ResourceConfig provides advanced capabilities to simplify

registration of JAX-RS components, such as scanning for root resource and provider classes in a provided
classpath or a in a set of package names etc. All JAX-RS component classes that are either manually
registered or found during scanning are automatically added to the set of classes that are returned by
getClasses. For example, the following application class that extends from ResourceConfig scans
during deployment for JAX-RS components in packages org.foo.rest and org.bar.rest:

Note
Package scanning ignores an inheritance and therefore @Path annotation on parent classes and
interfaces will be ignored. These classes won't be registered as the JAX-RS component classes.

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Example 4.2. Reusing Jersey implementation in your custom application model

1 public class MyApplication extends ResourceConfig {
2 public MyApplication() {
3 packages("org.foo.rest;org.bar.rest");
4 }
5 }

Note
Later in this chapter, the term Application subclass is frequently used. Whenever used, this
term refers to the JAX-RS Application Model explained above.

4.3. Auto-Discoverable Features

By default Jersey 2.x does not implicitly register any extension features from the modules available
on the classpath, unless explicitly stated otherwise in the documentation of each particular extension.
Users are expected to explicitly register the extension Feature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Feature.html]s using their Application subclass. For a few Jersey provided
modules however there is no need to explicitly register their extension Features as these are
discovered and registered in the Configuration [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/
ws/rs/core/Configuration.html] (on client/server) automatically by Jersey runtime whenever the modules
implementing these features are present on the classpath of the deployed JAX-RS application. The modules
that are automatically discovered include:

• JSON binding feature from jersey-media-moxy

• jersey-media-json-processing

• jersey-bean-validation

Besides these modules there are also few features/providers present in jersey-server module that
are discovered by this mechanism and their availability is affected by Jersey auto-discovery support
configuration (see Section 4.3.1, “Configuring Feature Auto-discovery Mechanism”), namely:

• WadlFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/wadl/
WadlFeature.html] - enables WADL processing.

• UriConnegFilter [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/filter/
UriConnegFilter.html] - a URI-based content negotiation filter.

Almost all Jersey auto-discovery implementations have AutoDiscoverable.DEFAULT_PRIORITY

@Priority set.

Note
Auto discovery functionality is in Jersey supported by implementing an internal
AutoDiscoverable Jersey SPI. This interface is not public at the moment, and is subject to
change in the future, so be careful when trying to use it.

4.3.1. Configuring Feature Auto-discovery Mechanism

The mechanism of feature auto-discovery in Jersey that described above is enabled by default. It can be
disabled by using special (common/server/client) properties:

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Common auto discovery properties

• CommonProperties.FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
CommonProperties.html#FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE]

When set, disables auto discovery globally on client/server.

• CommonProperties.JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
CommonProperties.html#JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE]

When set, disables configuration of Json Processing (JSR-353) feature.

• CommonProperties.MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/CommonProperties.html#MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE]

When set, disables configuration of MOXy Json feature.

For each of these properties there is a client/server counter-part that is only honored by the Jersey
client or server runtime respectively (see ClientProperties [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/client/ClientProperties.html]/ServerProperties [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ServerProperties.html]). When set, each of these client/server specific
auto-discovery related properties overrides the value of the related common property.

Note
In case an auto-discoverable mechanism (in general or for a specific feature) is disabled, then
all the features, components and/or properties, registered by default using the auto-discovery
mechanism have to be registered manually.

4.4. Configuring the Classpath Scanning

Jersey uses a common Java Service Provider mechanism to obtain all service implementations. It means
that Jersey scans the whole class path to find appropriate META-INF/services/ files. The class path
scanning may be time consuming. The more jar or war files on the classpath the longer the scanning time.
In use cases where you need to save every millisecond of application bootstrap time, you may typically
want to disable the services provider lookup in Jersey.

List of SPIs recognized by Jersey

• AutoDiscoverable (server, client) - it means if you disable service loading the AutoDiscoverable
feature is automatically disabled too

• ForcedAutoDiscoverable (server, client) - Jersey always looks for these auto discoverable
features even if the service loading is disabled

• HeaderDelegateProvider (server, client)

• ComponentProvider (server)

• ContainerProvider (server)

• AsyncContextDelegateProvider (server/Servlet)

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List of additional SPIs recognized by Jersey in case the metainf-services

module is on the classpath
• MessageBodyReader (server, client)

• MessageBodyWriter (server, client)

• ExceptionMapper (server, client)

Since it is possible to configure all SPI implementation classes or instances manually in your
Application subclass, disabling services lookup in Jersey does not affect any functionality of Jersey
core modules and extensions and can save dozens of ms during application initialization in exchange for
a more verbose application configuration code.

The services lookup in Jersey (enabled by default) can be disabled via a

dedicated CommonProperties.METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
CommonProperties.html#METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE] property. There is a client/
server counter-part that only disables the feature on the client or server respectively:
ClientProperties.METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE]/
ServerProperties.METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE]. As in all other cases, the client/
server specific properties overrides the value of the related common property, when set.

For example, following code snippet disables service provider lookup and
manually registers implementations of different JAX-RS and Jersey provider
types (ContainerRequestFilter [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/
ContainerRequestFilter.html], Feature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
Feature.html], ComponentProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
server/spi/ComponentProvider.html] and ContainerProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/server/spi/ContainerProvider.html]):

Example 4.3. Registering SPI implementations using ResourceConfig

1 ResourceConfig resourceConfig = new ResourceConfig(MyResource.class);
2 resourceConfig.register(org.glassfish.jersey.server.filter.UriConnegFilter.clas
3 resourceConfig.register(org.glassfish.jersey.server.validation.ValidationFeatur
4 resourceConfig.register(org.glassfish.jersey.server.spring.SpringComponentProvi
5 resourceConfig.register(org.glassfish.jersey.grizzly2.httpserver.GrizzlyHttpCon
6 resourceConfig.property(ServerProperties.METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE, true)

Similarly, in scenarios where the deployment model requires extending the Application subclass (e.g.
in all Servlet container deployments), the following code could be used to achieve the same application
configuration:

Example 4.4. Registering SPI implementations using ResourceConfig subclass

1 public class MyApplication extends ResourceConfig {
2 public MyApplication() {
3 register(org.glassfish.jersey.server.filter.UriConnegFilter.class);
4 register(org.glassfish.jersey.server.validation.ValidationFeature.class
5 register(org.glassfish.jersey.server.spring.SpringComponentProvider.cla

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6 register(org.glassfish.jersey.grizzly2.httpserver.GrizzlyHttpContainerP
7 property(ServerProperties.METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE, true);
8 }
9 }

4.5. Java SE Deployment Environments

4.5.1. HTTP servers
Java based HTTP servers represent a minimalistic and flexible way of deploying Jersey application. The
HTTP servers are usually embedded in the application and configured and started programmatically. In
general, Jersey container for a specific HTTP server provides a custom factory method that returns a
correctly initialized HTTP server instance.

4.5.1.1. JDK Http Server

Starting with Java SE 6, Java runtime ships with a built-in lightweight HTTP server.
Jersey offers integration with this Java SE HTTP server through the jersey-container-
jdk-http container extension module. Instead of creating the HttpServer [http://
docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/jre/api/net/httpserver/spec/com/sun/net/
httpserver/HttpServer.html] instance directly, use the createHttpServer() method
of JdkHttpServerFactory [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/jdkhttp/JdkHttpServerFactory.html], which creates the
HttpServer instance configured as a Jersey container and initialized with the supplied Application
subclass.

Creating new Jersey-enabled jdk http server is as easy as:

Example 4.5. Using Jersey with JDK HTTP Server

1 URI baseUri = UriBuilder.fromUri("http://localhost/").port(9998).build();
2 ResourceConfig config = new ResourceConfig(MyResource.class);
3 HttpServer server = JdkHttpServerFactory.createHttpServer(baseUri, config);

A JDK HTTP Container dependency needs to be added:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-jdk-http</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

4.5.1.2. Grizzly HTTP Server

Grizzly [http://grizzly.java.net/] is a multi-protocol framework built on top of Java NIO
[http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/package-summary.html]. Grizzly aims to simplify
development of robust and scalable servers. Jersey provides a container extension module that enables
support for using Grizzly as a plain vanilla HTTP container that runs JAX-RS applications. Starting a
Grizzly server to run a JAX-RS or Jersey application is one of the most lightweight and easy ways how
to expose a functional RESTful services application.

Grizzly HTTP container supports injection of Grizzly-specific

org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.Request and
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application resources and providers. However, since Grizzly Request is not proxiable, the injection
of Grizzly Request into singleton (by default) JAX-RS / Jersey providers is only possible via
javax.inject.Provider instance. (Grizzly Response does not suffer the same restriction.)

Example 4.6. Using Jersey with Grizzly HTTP Server

1 URI baseUri = UriBuilder.fromUri("http://localhost/").port(9998).build();
2 ResourceConfig config = new ResourceConfig(MyResource.class);
3 HttpServer server = GrizzlyHttpServerFactory.createHttpServer(baseUri, conf

The container extension module dependency to be added is:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-grizzly2-http</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

Note
Jersey uses Grizzly extensively in the project unit and end-to-end tests via test framework.

4.5.1.3. Simple server

Simple [http://www.simpleframework.org/] is a framework which allows developers to create a HTTP
server instance and embed it within an application. Again, creating the server instance is achieved by
calling a factory method from the jersey-container-simple-http container extension module.

Simple framework HTTP container supports injection of Simple framework-specific

org.simpleframework.http.Request and org.simpleframework.http.Response
instances into JAX-RS and Jersey application resources and providers.

Example 4.7. Using Jersey with the Simple framework

1 URI baseUri = UriBuilder.fromUri("http://localhost/").port(9998).build();
2 ResourceConfig config = new ResourceConfig(MyResource.class);
3 SimpleContainer server = SimpleContainerFactory.create(baseUri, config);

The necessary container extension module dependency in this case is:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-simple-http</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

Note
Simple framework HTTP container does not support deployment on context paths other than root
path ("/"). Non-root context path is ignored during deployment.

4.5.1.4. Jetty HTTP Server

Jetty is a popular Servlet container and HTTP server. We will not look into Jetty's capabilities as a Servlet
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when using a Servlet-based deployment model, which is extensively described later in our Section 4.7,
“Servlet-based Deployment” section. We will here only focus on describing how to use Jetty's HTTP
server.

Jetty HTTP container supports injection of Jetty-specific org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request

and org.eclipse.jetty.server.Response instances into JAX-RS and Jersey application
resources and providers. However, since Jetty HTTP Request is not proxiable, the injection
of Jetty Request into singleton (by default) JAX-RS / Jersey providers is only possible via
javax.inject.Provider instance. (Jetty Response does not suffer the same restriction.)

Example 4.8. Using Jersey with Jetty HTTP Server

1 URI baseUri = UriBuilder.fromUri("http://localhost/").port(9998).build();
2 ResourceConfig config = new ResourceConfig(MyResource.class);
3 Server server = JettyHttpContainerFactory.createServer(baseUri, config);

And, of course, we add the necessary container extension module dependency:

1 <dependency>
2 <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
3 <artifactId>jersey-container-jetty-http</artifactId>
4 <version>2.25.1</version>
5 </dependency>

Note
Jetty HTTP container does not support deployment on context paths other than root path ("/").
Non-root context path is ignored during deployment.

4.5.1.5. Netty HTTP Server

Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications
such as protocol servers and clients. Jersey supports Netty as a container and as a client connector - this
chapter will present how to use the container.

Example 4.9. Using Jersey with Netty HTTP Server

1 URI baseUri = UriBuilder.fromUri("http://localhost/").port(9998).build();
2 ResourceConfig resourceConfig = new ResourceConfig(HelloWorldResource.class);
3 Channel server = NettyHttpContainerProvider.createServer(baseUri, resourceConfi

And, of course, we add the necessary container extension module dependency:

1 <dependency>
2 <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
3 <artifactId>jersey-container-netty-http</artifactId>
4 <version>2.25.1</version>
5 </dependency>

Note
Netty HTTP container does not support deployment on context paths other than root path ("/").
Non-root context path is ignored during deployment.

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4.6. Creating programmatic JAX-RS endpoint

JAX-RS specification also defines the ability to programmatically create a JAX-RS application endpoint
(i.e. container) for any instance of a Application subclass. For example, Jersey supports creation of
Grizzly [http://grizzly.java.net/] HttpHandler instance as follows:

HttpHandler endpoint = RuntimeDelegate.getInstance()

.createEndpoint(new MyApplication(), HttpHandler.class);

Once the Grizzly HttpHandler endpoint is created, it can be used for in-process deployment to a specific
base URL.

4.7. Servlet-based Deployment

In a Servlet container, JAX-RS defines multiple deployment options depending on the Servlet API version
supported by the Servlet container. Following sections describe these options in detail.

4.7.1. Servlet 2.x Container

Jersey integrates with any Servlet containers supporting at least Servlet 2.5 specification. Running on
a Servlet container that supports Servlet API 3.0 or later gives you the advantage of wider feature set
(especially asynchronous request processing support) and easier and more flexible deployment options. In
this section we will focus on the basic deployment models available in any Servlet 2.5 or higher container.

In Servlet 2.5 environment, you have to explicitly declare the Jersey container Servlet in your Web
application's web.xml deployment descriptor file.

Example 4.10. Hooking up Jersey as a Servlet

1 <web-app>
2 <servlet>
3 <servlet-name>MyApplication</servlet-name>
4 <servlet-class>org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-c
5 <init-param>
6 ...
7 </init-param>
8 </servlet>
9 ...
10 <servlet-mapping>
11 <servlet-name>MyApplication</servlet-name>
12 <url-pattern>/myApp/*</url-pattern>
13 </servlet-mapping>
14 ...
15 </web-app>

Alternatively, you can register Jersey container as a filter:

Example 4.11. Hooking up Jersey as a Servlet Filter

1 <web-app>
2 <filter>
3 <filter-name>MyApplication</filter-name>

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4 <filter-class>org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer</filter-cla
5 <init-param>
6 ...
7 </init-param>
8 </filter>
9 ...
10 <filter-mapping>
11 <filter-name>MyApplication</filter-name>
12 <url-pattern>/myApp/*</url-pattern>
13 </filter-mapping>
14 ...
15 </web-app>

Important
Servlet 2.x API does not provide a way how to programmatically read the filter mappings.
To make application deployed using filter work correctly, either Servlet 3.x container must
be used (jersey-container-servlet instead of jersey-container-servlet-
core), or the context path of the app needs to be defined using init parameter
jersey.config.servlet.filter.contextPath.

The content of the <init-param> element will vary depending on the way you decide to configure
Jersey resources.

4.7.1.1. Custom Application subclass

If you extend the Application [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
Application.html] class to provide the list of relevant root resource classes (getClasses()) and
singletons (getSingletons()), i.e. your JAX-RS application model, you then need to register it in your
web application web.xml deployment descriptor using a Servlet or Servlet filter initialization parameter
with a name of javax.ws.rs.Application [sic] as follows:

Example 4.12. Configuring Jersey container Servlet or Filter to use custom

Application subclass
1 <init-param>
2 <param-name>javax.ws.rs.Application</param-name>
3 <param-value>org.foo.MyApplication</param-value>
4 </init-param>

Jersey will consider all the classes returned by getClasses() and getSingletons() methods of
your Application implementation.

Note
The name of the configuration property as defined by JAX-RS specification is indeed
javax.ws.rs.Application and not javax.ws.rs.core.Application as one
might expect.

4.7.1.2. Jersey package scanning

If there is no configuration properties to be set and deployed application consists only from resources and
providers stored in particular packages, you can instruct Jersey to scan these packages and register any
found resources and providers automatically:

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Example 4.13. Configuring Jersey container Servlet or Filter to use package

scanning
1 <init-param>
2 <param-name>jersey.config.server.provider.packages</param-name>
3 <param-value>
4 org.foo.myresources,org.bar.otherresources
5 </param-value>
6 </init-param>
7 <init-param>
8 <param-name>jersey.config.server.provider.scanning.recursive</param-name>
9 <param-value>false</param-value>
10 </init-param>

Jersey will automatically discover the resources and providers in the selected packages. You
can also decide whether Jersey should recursively scan also sub-packages by setting the
jersey.config.server.provider.scanning.recursive property. The default value is
true, i.e. the recursive scanning of sub-packages is enabled.

4.7.1.3. Selecting concrete resource and provider classes

While the above-mentioned package scanning is useful esp. for development and testing, you
may want to have a little bit more control when it comes to production deployment in terms
of being able to enumerate specific resource and provider classes. In Jersey it is possible to
achieve this even without a need to implement a custom Application subclass. The specific
resource and provider fully-qualified class names can be provided in a comma-separated value of
jersey.config.server.provider.classnames initialization parameter.

Example 4.14. Configuring Jersey container Servlet or Filter to use a list of classes
1 <init-param>
2 <param-name>jersey.config.server.provider.classnames</param-name>
3 <param-value>
4 org.foo.myresources.MyDogResource,
5 org.bar.otherresources.MyCatResource
6 </param-value>
7 </init-param>

Note
All of the techniques that have been described in this section also apply to Servlet containers
that support Servlet API 3.0 and later specification. Newer Servlet specifications only give you
additional features, deployment options and more flexibility.

4.7.2. Servlet 3.x Container

4.7.2.1. Descriptor-less deployment
There are multiple deployment options in the Servlet 3.0 container for a JAX-RS application
defined by implementing a custom Application [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html] subclass. For simple deployments, no web.xml is necessary
at all. Instead, an @ApplicationPath [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
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apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html] subclass and define the base application

URI for all JAX-RS resources configured in the application:

Example 4.15. Deployment of a JAX-RS application using @ApplicationPath

with Servlet 3.0
1 @ApplicationPath("resources")
2 public class MyApplication extends ResourceConfig {
3 public MyApplication() {
4 packages("org.foo.rest;org.bar.rest");
5 }
6 }

Note
There are many other convenience methods in the ResourceConfig that can be
used in the constructor of your custom subclass to configure your JAX-RS application,
see ResourceConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ResourceConfig.html] API documentation for more details.

In case you are not providing web.xml deployment descriptor for your maven-based web
application project, you need to configure your maven-war-plugin to ignore the missing
web.xml file by setting failOnMissingWebXml [http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/
war-mojo.html#failOnMissingWebXml] configuration property to false in your project pom.xml file:

Example 4.16. Configuration of maven-war-plugin to ignore missing web.xml

1 <plugins>
2 ...
3 <plugin>
4 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
5 <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
6 <version>2.3</version>
7 <configuration>
8 <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
9 </configuration>
10 </plugin>
11 ...
12 </plugins>

4.7.2.2. Deployment using web.xml descriptor

Another Servlet 3.x container deployment model is to declare the JAX-RS application details in the
web.xml. This is typically suitable for more complex deployments, e.g. when security model needs
to be properly defined or when additional initialization parameters have to be passed to Jersey runtime.
JAX-RS 1.1 and later specifies that a fully qualified name of the class that implements Application
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html] may be used in the
definition of a <servlet-name> element as part of your application's web.xml deployment descriptor.

Following example illustrates this approach:

Example 4.17. Deployment of a JAX-RS application using web.xml with Servlet

3.0
1 <web-app>

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2 <servlet>
3 <servlet-name>org.foo.rest.MyApplication</servlet-name>
4 </servlet>
5 ...
6 <servlet-mapping>
7 <servlet-name>org.foo.rest.MyApplication</servlet-name>
8 <url-pattern>/resources</url-pattern>
9 </servlet-mapping>
10 ...
11 </web-app>

Note that the <servlet-class> element is omitted from the Servlet declaration. This is a correct
declaration utilizing the Servlet 3.0 extension mechanism described in detail in the Section 4.7.2.3, “Servlet
Pluggability Mechanism” section. Also note that <servlet-mapping> is used in the example to define
the base resource URI.

Tip
When running in a Servlet 2.x it would instead be necessary to declare the Jersey container Servlet
or Filter and pass the Application implementation class name as one of the init-param
entries, as described in Section 4.7.1, “Servlet 2.x Container”.

4.7.2.3. Servlet Pluggability Mechanism

Servlet framework pluggability mechanism is a feature introduced with Servlet 3.0 specification. It
simplifies the configuration of various frameworks built on top of Servlets. Instead of having one
web.xml file working as a central point for all the configuration options, it is possible to modularize
the deployment descriptor by using the concept of so-called web fragments - several specific and focused
web.xml files. A set of web fragments basically builds up the final deployment descriptor. This
mechanism also provides SPI hooks that enable web frameworks to register themselves in the Servlet
container or customize the Servlet container deployment process in some other way. This section describes
how JAX-RS and Jersey leverage the Servlet pluggability mechanism.

4.7.2.3.1. JAX-RS application without an Application subclass

If no Application (or ResourceConfig) subclass is present, Jersey will dynamically add a Jersey
container Servlet and set its name to javax.ws.rs.core.Application. The web application
path will be scanned and all the root resource classes (the classes annotated with @Path [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] annotation) as well as any providers
that are annotated with @Provider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/
Provider.html] annotation packaged with the application will be automatically registered in the JAX-RS
application. The web application has to be packaged with a deployment descriptor specifying at least the
mapping for the added javax.ws.rs.core.Application Servlet:

Example 4.18. web.xml of a JAX-RS application without an Application

subclass
1 <web-app version="3.0"
2 xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
3 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
4
5 <!-- Servlet declaration can be omitted in which case
6 it would be automatically added by Jersey -->
7 <servlet>
8 <servlet-name>javax.ws.rs.core.Application</servlet-name>

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9 </servlet>
10
11 <servlet-mapping>
12 <servlet-name>javax.ws.rs.core.Application</servlet-name>
13 <url-pattern>/myresources/*</url-pattern>
14 </servlet-mapping>
15 </web-app>

4.7.2.3.2. JAX-RS application with a custom Application subclass

When a custom Application subclass is provided, in such case the Jersey server runtime behavior
depends od whether or not there is a Servlet defined to handle the application subclass.

If the web.xml contains a Servlet definition, that has an initialization parameter

javax.ws.rs.Application whose value is the fully qualified name of the Application
subclass, Jersey does not perform any additional steps in such case.

If no such Servlet is defined to handle the custom Application subclass, Jersey dynamically
adds a Servlet with a fully qualified name equal to the name of the provided Application
subclass. To define the mapping for the added Servlet, you can either annotate the custom
Application subclass with an @ApplicationPath [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/ApplicationPath.html] annotation (Jersey will use the annotation value appended with /* to
automatically define the mapping for the Servlet), or specify the mapping for the Servlet in the web.xml
descriptor directly.

In the following example, let's assume that the JAX-RS application is defined using a custom
Application subclass named org.example.MyApplication. Then the web.xml file could
have the following structure:

Example 4.19.
1 <web-app version="3.0"
2 xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
3 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
4
5 <!-- Servlet declaration can be omitted in which case
6 it would be automatically added by Jersey -->
7 <servlet>
8 <servlet-name>org.example.MyApplication</servlet-name>
9 </servlet>
10
11 <!-- Servlet mapping can be omitted in case the Application subclass
12 is annotated with @ApplicationPath annotation; in such case
13 the mapping would be automatically added by Jersey -->
14 <servlet-mapping>
15 <servlet-name>org.example.MyApplication</servlet-name>
16 <url-pattern>/myresources/*</url-pattern>
17 </servlet-mapping>
18 </web-app>

Note
If your custom Application subclass is packaged in the war, it defines which resources will
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• If both getClasses() and getSingletons() methods return an empty collection, then

ALL the root resource classes and providers packaged in the web application archive will be
used, Jersey will automatically discover them by scanning the .war file.

• If any of the two mentioned methods - getClasses() or getSingletons() returns a

non-empty collection, only those classes and/or singletons will be published in the JAX-RS
application.

Table 4.1. Servlet 3 Pluggability Overview

Condition Jersey action Servlet Name web.xml
No Application Adds Servlet Servlet mapping is required
javax.ws.rs.core.Application
subclass
Application subclass No action Already defined Not required
handled by existing Servlet
Application subclass Adds Servlet FQN of the if no
NOT handled by existing Application subclass @ApplicationPath
Servlet on the Application
subclass, then Servlet
mapping is required

4.7.3. Jersey Servlet container modules

Jersey uses its own ServletContainer [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/servlet/ServletContainer.html] implementation
of Servlet and Servlet Filter API to integrate with Servlet containers. As any JAX-RS runtime, Jersey
provides support for Servlet containers that support Servlet specification version 2.5 and higher. To support
JAX-RS 2.0 asynchronous resources on top of a Servlet container, support for Servlet specification version
3.0 or higher is required.

When deploying to a Servlet container, Jersey application is typically packaged as a .war file. As with
any other Servlet application, JAX-RS application classes are packaged in WEB-INF/classes or WEB-
INF/lib and required application libraries are located in WEB-INF/lib. For more details, please refer
to the Servlet Specification (JSR 315 [http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=315]).

Jersey provides two Servlet modules. The first module is the Jersey core Servlet module that provides the
core Servlet integration support and is required in any Servlet 2.5 or higher container:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-servlet-core</artifactId>
</dependency>

To support additional Servlet 3.x deployment modes and asynchronous JAX-RS resource programming
model, an additional Jersey module is required:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-servlet</artifactId>
</dependency>

The jersey-container-servlet module depends on jersey-container-servlet-core

module, therefore when it is used, it is not necessary to explicitly declare the jersey-container-
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Note that in simple cases, you don't need to provide the deployment descriptor (web.xml) and can use
the @ApplicationPath annotation, as described in Section 4.7.2.3.1, “JAX-RS application without
an Application subclass” section.

4.8. Java EE Platform

This section describes, how you can publish Jersey JAX-RS resources as various Java EE platform
elements. JAX-RS and Jersey give you wide choice of possibilities and it is up to your taste (and design
of your application), what Java EE technology you decide to use for the management of your resources.

4.8.1. Managed Beans

Jersey supports the use of Java EE Managed beans as root resource classes, providers as well as
Application subclasses.

In the code below, you can find an example of a bean, that uses a managed-bean interceptor defined as a
JAX-RS bean. The bean is used to intercept calls to the resource method getIt():

1 @ManagedBean
2 @Path("/managedbean")
3 public class ManagedBeanResource {
4
5 public static class MyInterceptor {
6 @AroundInvoke
7 public String around(InvocationContext ctx) throws Exception {
8 System.out.println("around() called");
9 return (String) ctx.proceed();
10 }
11 }
12
13 @GET
14 @Produces("text/plain")
15 @Interceptors(MyInterceptor.class)
16 public String getIt() {
17 return "Hi managed bean!";
18 }
19 }

4.8.2. Context and Dependency Injection (CDI)

CDI beans can be used as Jersey root resource classes, providers as well as Application subclasses.
Providers and Application subclasses have to be singleton or application scoped.

The next example shows a usage of a CDI bean as a JAX-RS root resource class. We assume, that CDI
has been enabled. The code snipped uses the type-safe dependency injection provided in CDI by using
another bean (MyOtherCdiBean):

1 @Path("/cdibean")
2 public class CdiBeanResource {
3 @Inject MyOtherCdiBean bean; // CDI injected bean
4
5 @GET
6 @Produces("text/plain")

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7 public String getIt() {

8 return bean.getIt();
9 }
10 }

The above works naturally inside any Java EE compliant AS container. In Jersey version 2.15, container
agnostic CDI support was introduced. This feature allows you to publish CDI based JAX-RS resources
also in other containers. Jersey cdi-webapp example shows Jersey/CDI integration in Grizzly HTTP and
Apache Tomcat server. Detailed description of Jersey CDI support outside of a fully fledged Java EE
application container could be found in Chapter 24, Jersey CDI Container Agnostic Support.

4.8.3. Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)

Stateless and Singleton Session beans can be used as Jersey root resource classes, providers and/or
Application subclasses. You can choose from annotating the methods in the EJB's local interface
or directly the method in an interface-less EJB POJO. JAX-RS specifications requires its implementors
to discover EJBs by inspecting annotations on classes (or local interfaces), but not in the deployment
descriptors (ejb-jar.xml). As such, to keep your JAX-RS application portable, do not override EJB
annotations or provide any additional meta-data in the deployment descriptor file.

Following example consists of a stateless EJB and a local interface used in Jersey:

1 @Local
2 public interface LocalEjb {
3 @GET
4 @Produces("text/plain")
5 public String getIt();
6 }
7
8 @Stateless
9 @Path("/stateless")
10 public class StatelessEjbResource implements LocalEjb {
11 @Override
12 public String getIt() {
13 return "Hi Stateless!";
14 }
15 }

Note
Please note that Jersey currently does not support deployment of JAX-RS applications packaged
as standalone EJB modules (ejb-jars). To use EJBs as JAX-RS resources, the EJBs need to be
packaged either directly in a WAR or in an EAR that contains at least one WAR. This is to ensure
Servlet container initialization that is necessary for bootstrapping of the Jersey runtime.

4.8.4. Java EE Servers

4.8.4.1. GlassFish Application Server
As explained in 2.3.1 , you don't need to add any specific dependencies on GlassFish, Jersey is already
packaged within GlassFish. You only need to add the provided-scoped dependencies to you project to
be able to compile it. At runtime, GlassFish will make sure that your application has access to the Jersey
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Started with version 2.7, Jersey allows injecting Jersey specific types into CDI enabled JAX-RS
components using the @javax.inject.Inject annotation. This covers also custom HK2 bindings,
that are configured as part of Jersey application. The feature specifically enables usage of Jersey monitoring
statistics (provided that the statistic feature is turned on) in CDI environment, where injection is the only
mean to get access to monitoring data.

Since both CDI and HK2 use the same injection annotation, Jersey could get confused
in certain cases, which could lead to nasty runtime issues. The get better control
over what Jersey evaluates as HK2 injection, end-users could take advantage of newly
introduced, Hk2CustomBoundTypesProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/ext/cdi1x/spi/Hk2CustomBoundTypesProvider.html], SPI. Please see the linked javadoc to get
detailed information on how to use the SPI in your application.

4.8.4.2. Oracle WebLogic Server

WebLogic 12.1.2 and earlier supports only JAX-RS 1.1 (JSR 311 [http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311])
out of the box with Jersey 1.x (WebLogic 12.1.2 ships with Jersey 1.13). To update the version of
Jersey 1.x in these earlier WebLogic releases, please read the Updating the Version of Jersey JAX-
RS RI [http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1212/wls/RESTF/version-restful-service.htm] chapter in the
WebLogic RESTful Web Services Development Guide.

In WebLogic 12.1.3, Jersey 1.18 is shipped as a default JAX-RS 1.1 provider. In this version of
WebLogic, JAX-RS 2.0 (using Jersey 2.5.1) is supported as an optionally installable shared library. Please
read through the WebLogic 12.1.3 RESTful Web Services Development Guide [http://docs.oracle.com/
middleware/1213/wls/RESTF/use-jersey20-ri.htm#RESTF290] for details how to enable JAX-RS 2.0
support on WebLogic 12.1.3.

4.8.4.3. Other Application Servers

Third party Java EE application servers usually ship with a JAX-RS implementation. If you want to use
Jersey instead of the default JAX-RS provider, you need to add Jersey libraries to your classpath and
disable the default JAX-RS provider in the container.

In general, Jersey will be deployed as a Servlet and the resources can be deployed in various ways, as
described in this section. However, the exact steps will vary from vendor to vendor.

4.9. OSGi
OSGi support has been added to the Jersey version 1.2. Since then, you should be able to utilize standard
OSGi means to run Jersey based web applications in OSGi runtime as described in the OSGi Service
Platform Enterprise Specification. Jersey is currently compatible with OSGi 4.2.0, the specification could
be downloaded from the OSGi 4.2.0 Download Site [http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release4V42].

The two supported ways of running an OSGi web application are:

• WAB (Web Application Bundle)

• HTTP Service

WAB is in fact just an OSGified WAR archive. HTTP Service feature allows you to publish Java EE
Servlets in the OSGi runtime.

Two examples were added to the Jersey distribution to depict the above mentioned features and show how
to use them with Jersey:

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• WAB Example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/osgi-helloworld-webapp]

• HTTP Service example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/osgi-http-service]

Both examples are multi-module maven projects and both consist of an application OSGi bundle
module and a test module. The tests are based on the PAX Exam [http://ops4j1.jira.com/wiki/display/
PAXEXAM3/Pax+Exam] framework. Both OSGi examples also include a readme file containing
instructions how to manually run the example applications using Apache Felix [http://felix.apache.org/
site/index.html] framework.

The rest of the chapter describes how to run the above mentioned examples on GlassFish 4 application
server.

4.9.1. Enabling the OSGi shell in Glassfish

Since GlassFish utilizes Apache Felix, an OSGi runtime comes out of the box with GlassFish.
However, for security reasons, the OSGi shell has been turned off. You can however explicitly
enable it either by starting GlassFish the asadmin console and creating a Java system property
glassfish.osgi.start.level.final and setting its value to 3:

Example 4.20.
Start the admin console:

1
2 ~/glassfish/bin$ ./asadmin
3 Use "exit" to exit and "help" for online help.
4 asadmin>

You can check the actual value of the java property (loaded from the configuration file):

26
27 asadmin> list-jvm-options
28 ...
29 -Dglassfish.osgi.start.level.final=2
30 ...

And change the value by typing:

26
27 asadmin> create-jvm-options --target server -Dglassfish.osgi.start.level.final

The second option is to change the value in the osgi.properties configuration file:

1
2 # Final start level of OSGi framework. This is used by GlassFish launcher code
3 # to set the start level of the OSGi framework once server is up and running so
4 # optional services can start. The initial start level of framework is controll
5 # the standard framework property called org.osgi.framework.startlevel.beginnin
6 glassfish.osgi.start.level.final=3

You can then execute the Felix shell commands by typing osgi <felix_command> in the asadmin
console. For example:

1
2 asadmin> osgi lb
3 ... list of bundles ...

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or launching the shell using osgi-shell command in the admin console (the domain must be started,
otherwise the osgi shell won't launch):

1
2 asadmin> osgi-shell
3 Use "exit" to exit and "help" for online help.
4 gogo$

and execute the osgi commands directly (without the "osgi" prefix):

1
2 gogo$ lb
3 ... list of bundles ...

4.9.2. WAB Example

As mentioned above, WAB is just an OSGi-fied WAR archive. Besides the usual OSGi headers it must
in addition contain a special header, Web-ContextPath, specifying the web application context path. Our
WAB has (beside some other) the following headers present in the manifest:

1 Web-ContextPath: helloworld
2 Webapp-Context: helloworld
3 Bundle-ClassPath: WEB-INF/classese

Here, the second header is ignored by GlassFish, but may be required by other containers not fully
compliant with the OSGi Enterprise Specification mentioned above. The third manifest header worth
mentioning is the Bundle-ClassPath specifying where to find the application Java classes within the bundle
archive. More about manifest headers in OSGi can be found in the OSGi Wiki [http://wiki.osgi.org/wiki/
Category:Manifest_Header].

For more detailed information on the example please see the WAB Example [https://github.com/jersey/
jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/osgi-helloworld-webapp] source code. This example does not package into a
single war file. Instead a war and a set of additional jars is produced during the build. See the next
example to see how to deploy OSGi based Jersey application to GlassFish.

4.9.3. HTTP Service Example

Note
When deploying an OSGi HTTP Service example to GlassFish, please make sure the OSGi HTTP
Service bundle is installed on your GlassFish instance.

You can directly install and activate the Jersey application bundle. In case of our example, you can either
install the example bundle stored locally (and alternatively build from Jersey sources):

1) Build (optional)

1
2 examples$ cd osgi-http-service/bundle
3 bundle$ mvn clean package

You can also get the binary readily compiled from Java.net Maven Repository [https://maven.java.net/
content/repositories/releases/org/glassfish/jersey/examples/osgi-http-service/bundle/2.25.1].

2) Install into OSGi runtime:

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1
2 gogo$ install file:///path/to/file/bundle.jar
3 Bundle ID: 303

or install it directly from the maven repository:

1
2 gogo$ install http://maven.java.net/content/repositories/releases/org/glassfish
3 Bundle ID: 303

Make sure to replace <version> with an appropriate version number. Which one is appropriate depends
on the specific GlassFish 4.x version you are using. The version of the bundle cannot be higher than the
version of Jersey integrated in your GlassFish 4.x server. Jersey bundles declare dependencies on other
bundles at the OSGi level and those dependencies are version-sensitive. If you use example bundle from
let's say version 2.5, but Glassfish has Jersey 2.3.1, dependencies will not be satisfied and bundle will not
start. If this happens, the error will look something like this:

1 gogo$ lb
2 ...
3 303 | Installed | 1| jersey-examples-osgi-http-service-bundle (2.5.0.SNAPSH
4 gogo$ start 303
5
6 org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Unresolved constraint in bundle
7 org.glassfish.jersey.examples.osgi-http-service.bundle [303]: Unable to resolve
8 [303.0] osgi.wiring.package; (&(osgi.wiring.package=org.glassfish.jersey.servle
9 (version>=2.5.0)(!(version>=3.0.0)))
10
11 gogo$

In the opposite scenario (example bundle version 2.3.1 and Glassfish Jersey version higher), everything
should work fine.

Also, if you build GlassFish from the main trunk sources and use the example from most recent Jersey
release, you will most likely be able to run the examples from the latest Jersey release, as Jersey team
typically integrates all newly released versions of Jersey immediately into GlassFish.

As a final step, start the bundle:

1 gogo$ start 303

Again, the Bundle ID (in our case 303) has to be replaced by the correct one returned from the install
command.

The example app should now be up and running. You can access it on http://localhost:8080/osgi/
jersey-http-service/status [http://localhost:8080/osgi/jersey-http-service/status]. Please see HTTP Service
example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/osgi-http-service] source code for more
details on the example.

4.10. Other Environments

4.10.1. Oracle Java Cloud Service
As Oracle Public Cloud is based on WebLogic server, the same applies as in the paragraph about WebLogic
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Java Cloud Service can be found in this guide [http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/131/developer_services/

CSJSU/java-develop.htm#BABHDAJH].

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Chapter 5. Client API
This section introduces the JAX-RS Client API, which is a fluent Java based API for communication
with RESTful Web services. This standard API that is also part of Java EE 7 is designed to make it very
easy to consume a Web service exposed via HTTP protocol and enables developers to concisely and
efficiently implement portable client-side solutions that leverage existing and well established client-side
HTTP connector implementations.

The JAX-RS client API can be utilized to consume any Web service exposed on top of a HTTP protocol or
it's extension (e.g. WebDAV), and is not restricted to services implemented using JAX-RS. Yet, developers
familiar with JAX-RS should find the client API complementary to their services, especially if the client
API is utilized by those services themselves, or to test those services. The JAX-RS client API finds
inspiration in the proprietary Jersey 1.x Client API and developers familiar with the Jersey 1.x Client API
should find it easy to understand all the concepts introduced in the new JAX-RS Client API.

The goals of the client API are threefold:

1. Encapsulate a key constraint of the REST architectural style, namely the Uniform Interface Constraint
and associated data elements, as client-side Java artifacts;

2. Make it as easy to consume RESTful Web services exposed over HTTP, same as the JAX-RS server-
side API makes it easy to develop RESTful Web services; and

3. Share common concepts and extensibility points of the JAX-RS API between the server and the client
side programming models.

As an extension to the standard JAX-RS Client API, the Jersey Client API supports a pluggable architecture
to enable the use of different underlying HTTP client Connector [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/spi/Connector.html] implementations. Several such implementations are
currently provided with Jersey. We have a default client connector using Http(s)URLConnection
supplied with the JDK as well as connector implementations based on Apache HTTP Client, Jetty HTTP
client and Grizzly Asynchronous Client.

5.1. Uniform Interface Constraint

The uniform interface constraint bounds the architecture of RESTful Web services so that a client, such as
a browser, can utilize the same interface to communicate with any service. This is a very powerful concept
in software engineering that makes Web-based search engines and service mash-ups possible. It induces
properties such as:

1. simplicity, the architecture is easier to understand and maintain; and

2. evolvability or loose coupling, clients and services can evolve over time perhaps in new and unexpected
ways, while retaining backwards compatibility.

Further constraints are required:

1. every resource is identified by a URI;

2. a client interacts with the resource via HTTP requests and responses using a fixed set of HTTP methods;

3. one or more representations can be returned and are identified by media types; and

4. the contents of which can link to further resources.

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The above process repeated over and again should be familiar to anyone who has used a browser to fill in
HTML forms and follow links. That same process is applicable to non-browser based clients.

Many existing Java-based client APIs, such as the Apache HTTP client API or HttpUrlConnection
supplied with the JDK place too much focus on the Client-Server constraint for the exchanges of request
and responses rather than a resource, identified by a URI, and the use of a fixed set of HTTP methods.

A resource in the JAX-RS client API is an instance of the Java class WebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/WebTarget.html]. and encapsulates an URI. The fixed set of
HTTP methods can be invoked based on the WebTarget. The representations are Java types, instances
of which, may contain links that new instances of WebTarget may be created from.

5.2. Ease of use and reusing JAX-RS artifacts

Since a JAX-RS component is represented as an annotated Java type, it makes it easy to configure, pass
around and inject in ways that are not so intuitive or possible with other client-side APIs. The Jersey Client
API reuses many aspects of the JAX-RS and the Jersey implementation such as:

1. URI building using UriBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/

UriBuilder.html] and UriTemplate [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
uri/UriTemplate.html] to safely build URIs;

2. Built-in support for Java types of representations such as byte[], String, Number, Boolean,
Character, InputStream, java.io.Reader, File, DataSource, JAXB beans as well
as additional Jersey-specific JSON and Multi Part [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/media/multipart/package-summary.html] support.

3. Using the fluent builder-style API pattern to make it easier to construct requests.

Some APIs, like the Apache HTTP Client or HttpURLConnection [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/

docs/api/java/net/HttpURLConnection.html] can be rather hard to use and/or require too much code
to do something relatively simple, especially when the client needs to understand different payload
representations. This is why the Jersey implementation of JAX-RS Client API provides support for
wrapping HttpUrlConnection and the Apache HTTP client. Thus it is possible to get the benefits of
the established JAX-RS implementations and features while getting the ease of use benefit of the simple
design of the JAX-RS client API. For example, with a low-level HTTP client library, sending a POST
request with a bunch of typed HTML form parameters and receiving a response de-serialized into a JAXB
bean is not straightforward at all. With the new JAX-RS Client API supported by Jersey this task is very
easy:

Example 5.1. POST request with form parameters

1 Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();

2 WebTarget target = client.target("http://localhost:9998").path("resource");
3
4 Form form = new Form();
5 form.param("x", "foo");
6 form.param("y", "bar");
7
8 MyJAXBBean bean =
9 target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE)
10 .post(Entity.entity(form,MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED_TYPE),
11 MyJAXBBean.class);

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In the Example 5.1, “POST request with form parameters” a new WebTarget instance is created using a
new Client [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Client.html] instance first,
next a Form [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Form.html] instance is
created with two form parameters. Once ready, the Form instance is POSTed to the target resource. First,
the acceptable media type is specified in the request(...) method. Then in the post(...) method,
a call to a static method on JAX-RS Entity [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
client/Entity.html] is made to construct the request entity instance and attach the proper content media
type to the form entity that is being sent. The second parameter in the post(...) method specifies the
Java type of the response entity that should be returned from the method in case of a successful response.
In this case an instance of JAXB bean is requested to be returned on success. The Jersey client API takes
care of selecting the proper MessageBodyWriter<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/ext/MessageBodyWriter.html] for the serialization of the Form instance, invoking the POST
request and producing and de-serialization of the response message payload into an instance of a JAXB
bean using a proper MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/ext/MessageBodyReader.html].

If the code above had to be written using HttpUrlConnection, the developer would have to write
custom code to serialize the form data that are sent within the POST request and de-serialize the response
input stream into a JAXB bean. Additionally, more code would have to be written to make it easy to reuse
the logic when communicating with the same resource “http://localhost:8080/resource”
that is represented by the JAX-RS WebTarget instance in our example.

5.3. Overview of the Client API

5.3.1. Getting started with the client API
Refer to the dependencies for details on the dependencies when using the Jersey JAX-RS Client support.

You may also want to use a custom Connector [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/

jersey/client/spi/Connector.html] implementation. In such case you would need to include additional
dependencies on the module(s) containing the custom client connector that you want to use. See section
"Configuring custom Connectors" about how to use and configure a custom Jersey client transport
Connector.

5.3.2. Creating and configuring a Client instance

JAX-RS Client API is a designed to allow fluent programming model. This means, a construction of
a Client instance, from which a WebTarget is created, from which a request Invocation [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Invocation.html] is built and invoked can be
chained in a single "flow" of invocations. The individual steps of the flow will be shown in the following
sections. To utilize the client API it is first necessary to build an instance of a Client [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Client.html] using one of the static ClientBuilder [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/ClientBuilder.html] factory methods. Here's
the most simple example:

Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();

The ClientBuilder is a JAX-RS API used to create new instances of Client. In a slightly more
advanced scenarios, ClientBuilder can be used to configure additional client instance properties,
such as a SSL transport settings, if needed (see ??? below).

A Client instance can be configured during creation by passing a

ClientConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/ClientConfig.html]

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to the newClient(Configurable) ClientBuilder factory method. ClientConfig

[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/ClientConfig.html] implements
Configurable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Configurable.html] and
therefore it offers methods to register providers (e.g. features or individual entity providers, filters or
interceptors) and setup properties. The following code shows a registration of custom client filters:

1 ClientConfig clientConfig = new ClientConfig();

2 clientConfig.register(MyClientResponseFilter.class);
3 clientConfig.register(new AnotherClientFilter());
4 Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient(clientConfig);

In the example, filters are registered using the ClientConfig.register(...) method. There are
multiple overloaded versions of the method that support registration of feature and provider classes or
instances. Once a ClientConfig instance is configured, it can be passed to the ClientBuilder to
create a pre-configured Client instance.

Note that the Jersey ClientConfig supports the fluent API model of Configurable [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Configurable.html]. With that the code that
configures a new client instance can be also written using a more compact style as shown below.

1
2 Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient(new ClientConfig()
3 .register(MyClientResponseFilter.class)
4 .register(new AnotherClientFilter());

The ability to leverage this compact pattern is inherent to all JAX-RS and Jersey Client API components.

Since Client implements Configurable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/

core/Configurable.html] interface too, it can be configured further even after it has been created. Important
is to mention that any configuration change done on a Client instance will not influence the ClientConfig
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/ClientConfig.html] instance that
was used to provide the initial Client instance configuration at the instance creation time. The next piece
of code shows a configuration of an existing Client instance.

1 client.register(ThirdClientFilter.class);

Similarly to earlier examples, since Client.register(...) method supports the fluent API style,
multiple client instance configuration calls can be chained:

1 client.register(FilterA.class)
2 .register(new FilterB())
3 .property("my-property", true);

To get the current configuration of the Client instance a getConfiguration() method can be used.

1 ClientConfig clientConfig = new ClientConfig();

2 clientConfig.register(MyClientResponseFilter.class);
3 clientConfig.register(new AnotherClientFilter());
4 Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient(clientConfig);
5 client.register(ThirdClientFilter.class);
6 Configuration newConfiguration = client.getConfiguration();

In the code, an additional MyClientResponseFilter class and AnotherClientFilter instance

are registered in the clientConfig. The clientConfig is then used to construct a new Client
instance. The ThirdClientFilter is added separately to the constructed Client instance. This

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does not influence the configuration represented by the original clientConfig. In the last step a
newConfiguration is retrieved from the client. This configuration contains all three registered
filters while the original clientConfig instance still contains only two filters. Unlike clientConfig
created separately, the newConfiguration retrieved from the client instance represents a live client
configuration view. Any additional configuration changes made to the client instance are also reflected
in the newConfiguration. So, newConfiguration is really a view of the client configuration
and not a configuration state copy. These principles are important in the client API and will be used in
the following sections too. For example, you can construct a common base configuration for all clients (in
our case it would be clientConfig) and then reuse this common configuration instance to configure
multiple client instances that can be further specialized. Similarly, you can use an existing client
instance configuration to configure another client instance without having to worry about any side effects
in the original client instance.

5.3.3. Targeting a web resource

Once you have a Client instance you can create a WebTarget from it.

1 WebTarget webTarget = client.target("http://example.com/rest");

A Client contains several target(...) methods that allow for creation of WebTarget instance.
In this case we're using target(String uri) version. The uri passed to the method as a String
is the URI of the targeted web resource. In more complex scenarios it could be the context root URI
of the whole RESTful application, from which WebTarget instances representing individual resource
targets can be derived and individually configured. This is possible, because JAX-RS WebTarget also
implements Configurable:

1 WebTarget webTarget = client.target("http://example.com/rest");

2 webTarget.register(FilterForExampleCom.class);

The configuration principles used in JAX-RS client API apply to WebTarget as well. Each WebTarget
instance inherits a configuration from it's parent (either a client or another web target) and can be
further custom-configured without affecting the configuration of the parent component. In this case, the
FilterForExampleCom will be registered only in the webTarget and not in client. So, the
client can still be used to create new WebTarget instances pointing at other URIs using just the
common client configuration, which FilterForExampleCom filter is not part of.

5.3.4. Identifying resource on WebTarget

Let's assume we have a webTarget pointing at "http://example.com/rest" URI that represents
a context root of a RESTful application and there is a resource exposed on the URI "http://
example.com/rest/resource". As already mentioned, a WebTarget instance can be used to
derive other web targets. Use the following code to define a path to the resource.

1 WebTarget resourceWebTarget = webTarget.path("resource");

The resourceWebTarget now points to the resource on URI "http://example.com/rest/

resource". Again if we configure the resourceWebTarget with a filter specific to the resource,
it will not influence the original webTarget instance. However, the filter FilterForExampleCom
registration will still be inherited by the resourceWebTarget as it has been created from webTarget.
This mechanism allows you to share the common configuration of related resources (typically hosted
under the same URI root, in our case represented by the webTarget instance), while allowing for further
configuration specialization based on the specific requirements of each individual resource. The same
configuration principles of inheritance (to allow common config propagation) and decoupling (to allow
individual config customization) applies to all components in JAX-RS Client API discussed below.

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Let's say there is a sub resource on the path "http://example.com/rest/resource/

helloworld". You can derive a WebTarget for this resource simply by:

1 WebTarget helloworldWebTarget = resourceWebTarget.path("helloworld");

Let's assume that the helloworld resource accepts a query param for GET requests which defines the
greeting message. The next code snippet shows a code that creates a new WebTarget with the query
param defined.

1 WebTarget helloworldWebTargetWithQueryParam =
2 helloworldWebTarget.queryParam("greeting", "Hi World!");

Please note that apart from methods that can derive new WebTarget instance based on a URI path
or query parameters, the JAX-RS WebTarget API contains also methods for working with matrix
parameters too.

5.3.5. Invoking a HTTP request

Let's now focus on invoking a GET HTTP request on the created web targets. To start building a new HTTP
request invocation, we need to create a new Invocation.Builder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Invocation.Builder.html].

1 Invocation.Builder invocationBuilder =
2 helloworldWebTargetWithQueryParam.request(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_TYPE);
3 invocationBuilder.header("some-header", "true");

A new invocation builder instance is created using one of the request(...) methods that are available
on WebTarget. A couple of these methods accept parameters that let you define the media type of the
representation requested to be returned from the resource. Here we are saying that we request a "text/
plain" type. This tells Jersey to add a Accept: text/plain HTTP header to our request.

The invocationBuilder is used to setup request specific parameters. Here we can setup headers for
the request or for example cookie parameters. In our example we set up a "some-header" header to
value true.

Once finished with request customizations, it's time to invoke the request. We have two options
now. We can use the Invocation.Builder to build a generic Invocation [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Invocation.html] instance that will be invoked some time
later. Using Invocation we will be able to e.g. set additional request properties which are
properties in a batch of several requests and use the generic JAX-RS Invocation API to
invoke the batch of requests without actually knowing all the details (such as request HTTP
method, configuration etc.). Any properties set on an invocation instance can be read during the
request processing. For example, in a custom ClientRequestFilter [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/ClientRequestFilter.html] you can call getProperty() method on
the supplied ClientRequestContext [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/
ClientRequestContext.html] to read a request property. Note that these request properties are different
from the configuration properties set on Configurable. As mentioned earlier, an Invocation
instance provides generic invocation API to invoke the HTTP request it represents either synchronously
or asynchronously. See the Chapter 11, Asynchronous Services and Clients for more information on
asynchronous invocations.

In case you do not want to do any batch processing on your HTTP request invocations prior to invoking
them, there is another, more convenient approach that you can use to invoke your requests directly from
an Invocation.Builder instance. This approach is demonstrated in the next Java code listing.

1 Response response = invocationBuilder.get();

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While short, the code in the example performs multiple actions. First, it will build the the request from the
invocationBuilder. The URI of request will be http://example.com/rest/resource/
helloworld?greeting="Hi%20World!" and the request will contain some-header: true
and Accept: text/plain headers. The request will then pass trough all configured request
filters ( AnotherClientFilter, ThirdClientFilter and FilterForExampleCom). Once
processed by the filters, the request will be sent to the remote resource. Let's say the resource then returns an
HTTP 200 message with a plain text response content that contains the value sent in the request greeting
query parameter. Now we can observe the returned response:

1 System.out.println(response.getStatus());
2 System.out.println(response.readEntity(String.class));

which will produce the following output to the console:

200
Hi World!

As we can see, the request was successfully processed (code 200) and returned an entity
(representation) is "Hi World!". Note that since ve have configured a MyClientResponseFilter
in the resource target, when response.readEntity(String.class) gets called, the
response returned from the remote endpoint is passed through the response filter chain
(including the MyClientResponseFilter) and entity interceptor chain and at last
a proper MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/
MessageBodyReader.html] is located to read the response content bytes from the response stream into a
Java String instance. Check Chapter 10, Filters and Interceptors to lear more about request and response
filters and entity interceptors.

Imagine now that you would like to invoke a POST request but without any query parameters. You would
just use the helloworldWebTarget instance created earlier and call the post() instead of get().

1 Response postResponse =
2 helloworldWebTarget.request(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_TYPE)
3 .post(Entity.entity("A string entity to be POSTed", MediaType.T

5.3.6. Example summary

The following code puts together the pieces used in the earlier examples.

Example 5.2. Using JAX-RS Client API

1 ClientConfig clientConfig = new ClientConfig();
2 clientConfig.register(MyClientResponseFilter.class);
3 clientConfig.register(new AnotherClientFilter());
4
5 Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient(clientConfig);
6 client.register(ThirdClientFilter.class);
7
8 WebTarget webTarget = client.target("http://example.com/rest");
9 webTarget.register(FilterForExampleCom.class);
10 WebTarget resourceWebTarget = webTarget.path("resource");
11 WebTarget helloworldWebTarget = resourceWebTarget.path("helloworld");
12 WebTarget helloworldWebTargetWithQueryParam =
13 helloworldWebTarget.queryParam("greeting", "Hi World!");
14
15 Invocation.Builder invocationBuilder =

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16 helloworldWebTargetWithQueryParam.request(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_TYPE);
17 invocationBuilder.header("some-header", "true");
18
19 Response response = invocationBuilder.get();
20 System.out.println(response.getStatus());
21 System.out.println(response.readEntity(String.class));

Now we can try to leverage the fluent API style to write this code in a more compact way.

Example 5.3. Using JAX-RS Client API fluently

1 Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient(new ClientConfig()
2 .register(MyClientResponseFilter.class)
3 .register(new AnotherClientFilter()));
4
5 String entity = client.target("http://example.com/rest")
6 .register(FilterForExampleCom.class)
7 .path("resource/helloworld")
8 .queryParam("greeting", "Hi World!")
9 .request(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_TYPE)
10 .header("some-header", "true")
11 .get(String.class);

The code above does the same thing except it skips the generic Response processing and directly requests
an entity in the last get(String.class) method call. This shortcut method let's you specify that (in
case the response was returned successfully with a HTTP 2xx status code) the response entity should be
returned as Java String type. This compact example demonstrates another advantage of the JAX-RS
client API. The fluency of JAX-RS Client API is convenient especially with simple use cases. Here is
another a very simple GET request returning a String representation (entity):

1 String responseEntity = ClientBuilder.newClient()

2 .target("http://example.com").path("resource/rest")
3 .request().get(String.class);

5.4. Java instances and types for

representations
All the Java types and representations supported by default on the Jersey server side for requests and
responses are also supported on the client side. For example, to process a response entity (or representation)
as a stream of bytes use InputStream as follows:

InputStream in = response.readEntity(InputStream.class);

... // Read from the stream

in.close();

Note that it is important to close the stream after processing so that resources are freed up.

To POST a file use a File instance as follows:

File f = ...

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...

webTarget.request().post(Entity.entity(f, MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_TYPE));

5.4.1. Adding support for new representations

The support for new application-defined representations as Java types requires the implementation
of the same JAX-RS entity provider extension interfaces as for the server side JAX-RS
API, namely MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
ext/MessageBodyReader.html] and MessageBodyWriter<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/MessageBodyWriter.html] respectively, for request and response entities (or
inbound and outbound representations).

Classes or implementations of the provider-based interfaces need to be registered as providers within the
JAX-RS or Jersey Client API components that implement Configurable contract (ClientBuilder,
Client, WebTarget or ClientConfig), as was shown in the earlier sections. Some media types
are provided in the form of JAX-RS Feature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/core/Feature.html] a concept that allows the extension providers to group together multiple different
extension providers and/or configuration properties in order to simplify the registration and configuration
of the provided feature by the end users. For example, MoxyJsonFeature [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/moxy/json/MoxyJsonFeature.html] can be register to enable
and configure JSON binding support via MOXy library.

5.5. Client Transport Connectors

By default, the transport layer in Jersey is provided by HttpUrlConnection. This
transport is implemented in Jersey via HttpUrlConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/HttpUrlConnector.html] that implements Jersey-specific Connector
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/spi/Connector.html] SPI. You can
implement and/or register your own Connector instance to the Jersey Client implementation, that
will replace the default HttpUrlConnection-based transport layer. Jersey provides several alternative
client transport connector implementations that are ready-to-use.

Table 5.1. List of Jersey Connectors

Transport framework Jersey Connector Maven dependency
implementation
Grizzly NIO framework GrizzlyConnectorProvider org.glassfish.jersey.connectors:jers
[https://jersey.java.net/ grizzly-connector
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/
grizzly/connector/
GrizzlyConnectorProvider.html]
Apache HTTP client ApacheConnectorProvider org.glassfish.jersey.connectors:jers
[https://jersey.java.net/ apache-connector
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/
apache/connector/
ApacheConnectorProvider.html]
Jetty HTTP client JettyConnectorProvider org.glassfish.jersey.connectors:jers
[https://jersey.java.net/ jetty-connector

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Transport framework Jersey Connector Maven dependency

implementation
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/jetty/connector/
JettyConnectorProvider.html]
Netty NIO framework NettyConnectorProvider org.glassfish.jersey.connectors:jers
[https://jersey.java.net/ netty-connector
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/netty/connector/
NettyConnectorProvider.html]

Warning
Be aware of using other than default Connector implementation. There is an issue
handling HTTP headers in WriterInterceptor or MessageBodyWriter<T>. If
you need to change header fields do not use nor ApacheConnectorProvider
nor GrizzlyConnectorProvider nor JettyConnectorProvider neither
NettyConnectorProvider. The issue for example applies to Jersey Multipart feature that
also modifies HTTP headers.

On the other hand, in the default transport connector, there are some restrictions on the
headers, that can be sent in the default configuration. HttpUrlConnectorProvider uses
HttpUrlConnection as an underlying connection implementation. This JDK class by default
restricts the use of following headers:

• Access-Control-Request-Headers

• Access-Control-Request-Method

• Connection (with one exception - Connection header with value Closed is allowed
by default)

• Content-Length

• Content-Transfer-Encoding-

• Host

• Keep-Alive

• Origin

• Trailer

• Transfer-Encoding

• Upgrade

• Via

• all the headers starting with Sec-

The underlying connection can be configured to permit all headers to be sent,

however this behaviour can be changed only by setting the system property
sun.net.http.allowRestrictedHeaders.

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Example 5.4. Sending restricted headers with HttpUrlConnector

1
2 Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
3 System.setProperty("sun.net.http.allowRestricted
4
5 Response response = client.target(yourUri).path(
6 header("Origin", "http://example.com").
7 header("Access-Control-Request-Method", "POST").
8 get();
9

Note, that internally the HttpUrlConnection instances are pooled, so (un)setting the
property after already creating a target typically does not have any effect. The property influences
all the connections created after the property has been (un)set, but there is no guarantee, that your
request will use a connection created after the property change.

In a simple environment, setting the property before creating the first target is sufficient,
but in complex environments (such as application servers), where some poolable connections
might exist before your application even bootstraps, this approach is not 100% reliable and
we recommend using a different client transport connector, such as Apache Connector. These
limitations have to be considered especially when invoking CORS (Cross Origin Resource
Sharing) requests.

As indicated earlier, Connector [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/

spi/Connector.html] and ConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/spi/ConnectorProvider.html] contracts are Jersey-specific extension APIs that would only
work with Jersey and as such are not part of JAX-RS. Following example shows how to setup the custom
Grizzly Asynchronous HTTP Client based ConnectorProvider in a Jersey client instance:

1 ClientConfig clientConfig = new ClientConfig();

2 clientConfig.connectorProvider(new GrizzlyConnectorProvider());
3 Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient(clientConfig);

Client accepts as as a constructor argument a Configurable instance. Jersey implementation

of the Configurable provider for the client is ClientConfig. By using the Jersey
ClientConfig you can configure the custom ConnectorProvider into the ClientConfig.
The GrizzlyConnectorProvider is used as a custom connector provider in the example
above. Please note that the connector provider cannot be registered as a provider using
Configurable.register(...). Also, please note that in this API has changed in Jersey 2.5, where
the ConnectorProvider SPI has been introduced in order to decouple client initialization from the
connector instantiation. Starting with Jersey 2.5 it is therefore not possible to directly register Connector
instances in the Jersey ClientConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
client/ClientConfig.html]. The new ConnectorProvider SPI must be used instead to configure a
custom client-side transport connector.

5.6. Using client request and response filters

Filtering requests and responses can provide useful lower-level concept focused on a certain independent
aspect or domain that is decoupled from the application layer of building and sending requests, and
processing responses. Filters can read/modify the request URI, headers and entity or read/modify the
response status, headers and entity.

Jersey contains the following useful client-side filters (and features registering filters) that you may want
to use in your applications:

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CsrfProtectionFilter [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/filter/
CsrfProtectionFilter.html]: Cross-site request forgery protection filter (adds X-Requested-By to each
state changing request).
EncodingFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/filter/
EncodingFeature.html]: Feature that registers encoding filter which use registered ContentEncoder
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/spi/ContentEncoder.html]s to encode
and decode the communication. The encoding/decoding is performed in interceptor (you don't need to
register this interceptor). Check the javadoc of the EncodingFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/filter/EncodingFeature.html] in order to use it.
HttpAuthenticationFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
authentication/HttpAuthenticationFeature.html]: HTTP Authentication Feature (see ??? below).
Note that these features are provided by Jersey, but since they use and implement JAX-RS API, the features
should be portable and run in any JAX-RS implementation, not just Jersey. See Chapter 10, Filters and
Interceptors chapter for more information on filters and interceptors.

5.7. Closing connections

The underlying connections are opened for each request and closed after the response is received and entity
is processed (entity is read). See the following example:

Example 5.5. Closing connections

1 final WebTarget target = ... some web target
2 Response response = target.path("resource").request().get();
3 System.out.println("Connection is still open.");
4 System.out.println("string response: " + response.readEntity(String.class));
5 System.out.println("Now the connection is closed.");

If you don't read the entity, then you need to close the response manually by response.close().
Also if the entity is read into an InputStream [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/
InputStream.html] (by response.readEntity(InputStream.class)), the connection stays
open until you finish reading from the InputStream. In that case, the InputStream or the Response
should be closed manually at the end of reading from InputStream.

5.8. Injections into client providers

In some cases you might need to inject some custom types into your client provider instance. JAX-RS types
do not need to be injected as they are passed as arguments into API methods. Injections into client providers
(filters, interceptor) are possible as long as the provider is registered as a class. If the provider is registered
as an instance then runtime will not inject the provider. The reason is that this provider instance might
be registered into multiple client configurations. For example one instance of ClientRequestFilter [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/ClientRequestFilter.html] can be registered to
two Client [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Client.html]s.

To solve injection of a custom type into a client provider instance use

ServiceLocatorClientProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
ServiceLocatorClientProvider.html] to extract ServiceLocator [https://hk2.java.net/apidocs/org/glassfish/
hk2/api/ServiceLocator.html] which can return the required injection. The following example shows how
to utilize ServiceLocatorClientProvider:

Example 5.6. ServiceLocatorClientProvider example

1 public static class MyRequestFilter implements ClientRequestFilter {

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2 // this injection does not work as filter is registered as an instance:

3 // @Inject
4 // private MyInjectedService service;
5
6 @Override
7 public void filter(ClientRequestContext requestContext) throws IOException
8 // use ServiceLocatorClientProvider to extract HK2 ServiceLocator from
9 final ServiceLocator locator = ServiceLocatorClientProvider.getServiceL
10
11 // and ask for MyInjectedService:
12 final MyInjectedService service = locator.getService(MyInjectedService.
13
14 final String name = service.getName();
15 ...
16 }
17 }

For more information see javadoc of ServiceLocatorClientProvider [https://

jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/ServiceLocatorClientProvider.html] (and
javadoc of ServiceLocatorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
ServiceLocatorProvider.html] which supports common JAX-RS components).

5.9. Securing a Client

This section describes how to setup SSL configuration on Jersey client (using JAX-
RS API). The SSL configuration is setup in ClientBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/ClientBuilder.html]. The client builder contains methods for
definition of KeyStore [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/security/KeyStore.html], TrustStore
[http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/security/TrustStore.html] or entire SslContext [http://
docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/net/ssl/SslContext.html]. See the following example:

1 SSLContext ssl = ... your configured SSL context;

2 Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder().sslContext(ssl).build();
3 Response response = client.target("https://example.com/resource").request().get

The example above shows how to setup a custom SslContext to the ClientBuilder. Creating
a SslContext can be more difficult as you might need to init instance properly with the
protocol, KeyStore, TrustStore, etc. Jersey offers a utility SslConfigurator [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/SslConfigurator.html] class that can be used to setup the
SslContext. The SslConfigurator can be configured based on standardized system properties
for SSL configuration, so for example you can configure the KeyStore file name using a
environment variable javax.net.ssl.keyStore and SslConfigurator will use such a variable
to setup the SslContext. See javadoc of SslConfigurator [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/SslConfigurator.html] for more details. The following code shows how a
SslConfigurator can be used to create a custom SSL context.

1 SslConfigurator sslConfig = SslConfigurator.newInstance()

2 .trustStoreFile("./truststore_client")
3 .trustStorePassword("secret-password-for-truststore")
4 .keyStoreFile("./keystore_client")
5 .keyPassword("secret-password-for-keystore");
6
7 SSLContext sslContext = sslConfig.createSSLContext();
8 Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder().sslContext(sslContext).build();

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Note that you can also setup KeyStore and TrustStore directly on a ClientBuilder instance
without wrapping them into the SslContext. However, if you setup a SslContext it will override
any previously defined KeyStore and TrustStore settings. ClientBuilder also offers a
method for defining a custom HostnameVerifier [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/net/ssl/
HostnameVerifier.html] implementation. HostnameVerifier implementations are invoked when
default host URL verification fails.

Important
A behaviour of HostnameVerifier [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/net/
ssl/HostnameVerifier.html] is dependent on an http client implementation.
HttpUrlConnectorProvider and ApacheConnectorProvider work properly, that
means that after the unsuccessful URL verification HostnameVerifier is called
and by means of it is possible to revalidate URL using a custom implementation of
HostnameVerifier and go on in a handskahe processing. JettyConnectorProvider
and GrizzlyConnectorProvider provide only host URL verification and throw a
CertificateException without any possibility to use custom HostnameVerifier.
Moreover, in case of JettyConnectorProvider there is a property
JettyClientProperties.ENABLE_SSL_HOSTNAME_VERIFICATION [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
JettyClientProperties.html#ENABLE_SSL_HOSTNAME_VERIFICATION] to disable an
entire host URL verification mechanism in a handshake.

Important
Note that to utilize HTTP with SSL it is necessary to utilize the “https” scheme.

Currently the default connector provider HttpUrlConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/HttpUrlConnector.html] provides connectors based on
HttpUrlConnection which implement support for SSL defined by JAX-RS configuration discussed
in this example.

5.9.1. Http Authentication Support

Jersey supports Basic and Digest HTTP Authentication.

Important
In version prior to Jersey 2.5 the support was provided
by org.glassfish.jersey.client.filter.HttpBasicAuthFilter and
org.glassfish.jersey.client.filter.HttpDigestAuthFilter. Since Jersey
2.5 these filters are deprecated (and removed in 2.6) and both authentication methods are
provided by single Feature HttpAuthenticationFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/authentication/HttpAuthenticationFeature.html].

In order to enable http authentication support in Jersey client register

the HttpAuthenticationFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
authentication/HttpAuthenticationFeature.html]. This feature can provide both authentication methods,
digest and basic. Feature can work in the following modes:

• BASIC: Basic preemptive authentication. In preemptive mode the authentication information is send
always with each HTTP request. This mode is more usual than the following non-preemptive mode (if
you require BASIC authentication you will probably use this preemptive mode). This mode must be
combined with usage of SSL/TLS as the password is send only BASE64 encoded.

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• BASIC NON-PREEMPTIVE:Basic non-preemptive authentication. In non-preemptive mode the

authentication information is added only when server refuses the request with 401 status code and
then the request is repeated with authentication information. This mode has negative impact on the
performance. The advantage is that it does not send credentials when they are not needed. This mode
must be combined with usage of SSL/TLS as the password is send only BASE64 encoded.

• DIGEST: Http digest authentication. Does not require usage of SSL/TLS.

• UNIVERSAL: Combination of basic and digest authentication. The feature works in non-preemptive
mode which means that it sends requests without authentication information. If 401 status code is
returned, the request is repeated and an appropriate authentication is used based on the authentication
requested in the response (defined in WWW-Authenticate HTTP header. The feature remembers
which authentication requests were successful for given URI and next time tries to preemptively
authenticate against this URI with latest successful authentication method.

To initialize the feature use static methods and builder of this feature. Example of building the feature in
Basic authentication mode:

1 HttpAuthenticationFeature feature = HttpAuthenticationFeature.basic("user", "su

Example of building the feature in basic non-preemptive mode:

1 HttpAuthenticationFeature feature = HttpAuthenticationFeature.basicBuilder()

2 .nonPreemptive().credentials("user", "superSecretPassword").build();

You can also build the feature without any default credentials:

1 HttpAuthenticationFeature feature = HttpAuthenticationFeature.basicBuilder().bu

In this case you need to supply username and password for each request using request properties:

1 Response response = client.target("http://localhost:8080/rest/homer/contact").r

2 .property(HTTP_AUTHENTICATION_BASIC_USERNAME, "homer")
3 .property(HTTP_AUTHENTICATION_BASIC_PASSWORD, "p1swd745").get();

This allows you to reuse the same client for authenticating with many different credentials.

See javadoc of the HttpAuthenticationFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/

jersey/client/authentication/HttpAuthenticationFeature.html] for more details.

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Reactive Jersey Client API is quite a generic API allowing end users to utilize the popular reactive
programming model when using Jersey Client. Several extensions come out of the box with Jersey that
bring support for several existing 3rd party libraries for reactive programming. Along with describing the
API itself, this section also covers existing extension modules and provides hints to implement a custom
extension if needed.

If you are not familiar with the JAX-RS Client API, it is recommended that you see Chapter 5, Client API
where the basics of JAX-RS Client API along with some advanced techniques are described.

6.1. Motivation for Reactive Client Extension

The Problem
Imagine a travel agency whose information system consists of multiple basic services. These services
might be built using different technologies (JMS, EJB, WS, ...). For simplicity we presume that the services
can be consumed using REST interface via HTTP method calls (e.g. using a JAX-RS Client). We also
presume that the basic services we need to work with are:

• Customers service – provides information about customers of the travel agency.

• Destinations service – provides a list of visited and recommended destinations for an authenticated
customer.

• Weather service – provides weather forecast for a given destination.

• Quoting service – provides price calculation for a customer to travel to a recommended destination.

The task is to create a publicly available feature that would, for an authenticated user, display a list
of 10 last visited places and also display a list of 10 new recommended destinations including weather
forecast and price calculations for the user. Notice that some of the requests (to retrieve data) depend
on results of previous requests. E.g. getting recommended destinations depends on obtaining information
about the authenticated user first. Obtaining weather forecast depends on destination information, etc. This
relationship between some of the requests is an important part of the problem and an area where you can
take a real advantage of the reactive programming model.

One way how to obtain data is to make multiple HTTP method calls from the client (e.g. mobile device)
to all services involved and combine the retrieved data on the client. However, since the basic services are
available in the internal network only we'd rather create a public orchestration layer instead of exposing
all internal services to the outside world. The orchestration layer would expose only the desired operations
of the basic services to the public. To limit traffic and achieve lower latency we'd like to return all the
necessary information to the client in a single response.

The orchestration layer is illustrated in the Figure 6.1. The layer accepts requests from the outside and
is responsible of invoking multiple requests to the internal services. When responses from the internal
services are available in the orchestration layer they're combined into a single response that is sent back
to the client.

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Figure 6.1. Travel Agency Orchestration Service

The next sections describe various approaches (using JAX-RS Client) how the orchestration layer can be
implemented.

A Naive Approach
The simplest way to implement the orchestration layer is to use synchronous approach. For this purpose
we can use JAX-RS Client Sync API (see Example 6.1, “Excerpt from a synchronous approach
while implementing the orchestration layer”). The implementation is simple to do, easy to read and
straightforward to debug.

Example 6.1. Excerpt from a synchronous approach while implementing the

orchestration layer
1 final WebTarget destination = ...;
2 final WebTarget forecast = ...;
3
4 // Obtain recommended destinations.
5 List<Destination> recommended = Collections.emptyList();
6 try {
7 recommended = destination.path("recommended").request()
8 // Identify the user.
9 .header("Rx-User", "Sync")
10 // Return a list of destinations.
11 .get(new GenericType<List<Destination>>() {});
12 } catch (final Throwable throwable) {
13 errors.offer("Recommended: " + throwable.getMessage());
14 }
15
16 // Forecasts. (depend on recommended destinations)
17 final Map<String, Forecast> forecasts = new HashMap<>();
18 for (final Destination dest : recommended) {
19 try {
20 forecasts.put(dest.getDestination(),
21 forecast.resolveTemplate("destination", dest.getDestination()).
22 } catch (final Throwable throwable) {
23 errors.offer("Forecast: " + throwable.getMessage());
24 }
25 }

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The downside of this approach is it's slowness. You need to sequentially process all the independent
requests which means that you're wasting resources. You are needlessly blocking threads, that could be
otherwise used for some real work.

If you take a closer look at the example you can notice that at the moment when all the recommended
destinations are available for further processing we try to obtain forecasts for these destinations. Obtaining
a weather forecast can be done only for a single destination with a single request, so we need to make
10 requests to the Forecast service to get all the destinations covered. In a synchronous way this means
getting the forecasts one-by-one. When one response with a forecast arrives we can send another request
to obtain another one. This takes time. The whole process of constructing a response for the client can
be seen in Figure 6.2.

Let's try to quantify this with assigning an approximate time to every request we make to the internal
services. This way we can easily compute the time needed to complete a response for the client. For
example, obtaining

• Customer details takes 150 ms

• Recommended destinations takes 250 ms

• Price calculation for a customer and destination takes 170 ms (each)

• Weather forecast for a destination takes 330 ms (each)

When summed up, 5400 ms is approximately needed to construct a response for the client.

Figure 6.2. Time consumed to create a response for the client – synchronous way

Synchronous approach is better to use for lower number of requests (where the accumulated time doesn't
matter that much) or for a single request that depends on the result of previous operations.

Optimized Approach
The amount of time needed by the synchronous approach can be lowered by invoking independent requests
in parallel. We're going to use JAX-RS Client Async API to illustrate this approach. The implementation
in this case is slightly more difficult to get right because of the nested callbacks and the need to wait at
some points for the moment when all partial responses are ready to be processed. The implementation is
also a little bit harder to debug and maintain. The nested calls are causing a lot of complexity here. An
example of concrete Java code following the asynchronous approach can be seen in Example 6.2, “Excerpt
from an asynchronous approach while implementing the orchestration layer”.

Example 6.2. Excerpt from an asynchronous approach while implementing the

orchestration layer
1 final WebTarget destination = ...;
2 final WebTarget forecast = ...;

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3
4 // Obtain recommended destinations. (does not depend on visited ones)
5 destination.path("recommended").request()
6 // Identify the user.
7 .header("Rx-User", "Async")
8 // Async invoker.
9 .async()
10 // Return a list of destinations.
11 .get(new InvocationCallback<List<Destination>>() {
12 @Override
13 public void completed(final List<Destination> recommended) {
14 final CountDownLatch innerLatch = new CountDownLatch(recommende
15
16 // Forecasts. (depend on recommended destinations)
17 final Map<String, Forecast> forecasts = Collections.synchronize
18 for (final Destination dest : recommended) {
19 forecast.resolveTemplate("destination", dest.getDestination
20 .async()
21 .get(new InvocationCallback<Forecast>() {
22 @Override
23 public void completed(final Forecast forecast)
24 forecasts.put(dest.getDestination(), foreca
25 innerLatch.countDown();
26 }
27
28 @Override
29 public void failed(final Throwable throwable) {
30 errors.offer("Forecast: " + throwable.getMe
31 innerLatch.countDown();
32 }
33 });
34 }
35
36 // Have to wait here for dependent requests ...
37 try {
38 if (!innerLatch.await(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS)) {
39 errors.offer("Inner: Waiting for requests to complete h
40 }
41 } catch (final InterruptedException e) {
42 errors.offer("Inner: Waiting for requests to complete has b
43 }
44
45 // Continue with processing.
46 }
47
48 @Override
49 public void failed(final Throwable throwable) {
50 errors.offer("Recommended: " + throwable.getMessage());
51 }
52 });

The example is a bit more complicated from the first glance. We provided an InvocationCallback
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/InvocationCallback.html] to async
get method. One of the callback methods (completed or failed) is called when the request

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finishes. This is a pretty convenient way to handle async invocations when no nested calls are
present. Since we have some nested calls (obtaining weather forecasts) we needed to introduce a
CountDownLatch [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/CountDownLatch.html]
synchronization primitive as we use asynchronous approach in obtaining the weather forecasts as well.
The latch is decreased every time a request, to the Forecasts service, completes successfully or fails. This
indicates that the request actually finished and it is a signal for us that we can continue with processing
(otherwise we wouldn't have all required data to construct the response for the client). This additional
synchronization is something that was not present when taking the synchronous approach, but it is needed
here.

Also the error processing can not be written as it could be in an ideal case. The error handling is scattered in
too many places within the code, that it is quite difficult to create a comprehensive response for the client.

On the other hand taking asynchronous approach leads to code that is as fast as it gets. The resources are
used optimally (no waiting threads) to achieve quick response time. The whole process of constructing
the response for the client can be seen in Figure 6.3. It only took 730 ms instead of 5400 ms which we
encountered in the previous approach.

Figure 6.3. Time consumed to create a response for the client – asynchronous way

As you can guess, this approach, even with all it's benefits, is the one that is really hard to implement,
debug and maintain. It's a safe bet when you have many independent calls to make but it gets uglier with
an increasing number of nested calls.

Reactive Approach
Reactive approach is a way out of the so-called Callback Hell which you can encounter when dealing
with Java's Futures or invocation callbacks. Reactive approach is based on a data-flow concept and the
execution model propagate changes through the flow. An example of a single item in the data-flow chain
can be a JAX-RS Client HTTP method call. When the JAX-RS request finishes then the next item (or
the user code) in the data-flow chain is notified about the continuation, completion or error in the chain.
You're more describing what should be done next than how the next action in the chain should be triggered.
The other important part here is that the data-flows are composable. You can compose/transform multiple
flows into the resulting one and apply more operations on the result.

An example of this approach can be seen in Example 6.3, “Excerpt from a reactive approach while
implementing the orchestration layer”. The APIs would be described in more detail in the next sections.

Example 6.3. Excerpt from a reactive approach while implementing the

orchestration layer
1 final WebTarget destination = ...;

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2 final WebTarget forecast = ...;

3
4 // Recommended places.
5 final Observable<Destination> recommended = RxObservable.from(destination).path
6 // Identify the user.
7 .header("Rx-User", "RxJava")
8 // Reactive invoker.
9 .rx()
10 // Return a list of destinations.
11 .get(new GenericType<List<Destination>>() {})
12 // Handle Errors.
13 .onErrorReturn(throwable -> {
14 errors.offer("Recommended: " + throwable.getMessage());
15 return Collections.emptyList();
16 })
17 // Emit destinations one-by-one.
18 .flatMap(Observable::from)
19 // Remember emitted items for dependant requests.
20 .cache();
21
22 // Forecasts. (depend on recommended destinations)
23 final RxWebTarget<RxObservableInvoker> rxForecast = RxObservable.from(forecast)
24 final Observable<Forecast> forecasts = recommended.flatMap(destination ->
25 rxForecast
26 .resolveTemplate("destination", destination.getDestination()).r
27 .onErrorReturn(throwable -> {
28 errors.offer("Forecast: " + throwable.getMessage());
29 return new Forecast(destination.getDestination(), "N/A");
30 }));
31
32 final Observable<Recommendation> recommendations = Observable.zip(recommended,

As you can see the code achieves the same work as the previous two examples. It's more readable than
the pure asynchronous approach even though it's equally fast. It's as easy to read and implement as the
synchronous approach. The error processing is also better handled in this way than in the asynchronous
approach.

When dealing with a large amount of requests (that depend on each other) and when you need to compose/
combine the results of these requests, the reactive programming model is the right technique to use.

6.2. Usage and Extension Modules

Reactive Jersey Client API tries to bring a similar experience you have with the existing JAX-RS Client
API. It builds on it with extending these JAX-RS APIs with a few new methods.

When you compare synchronous invocation of HTTP calls ( Example 6.4, “Synchronous invocation of
HTTP requests”)

Example 6.4. Synchronous invocation of HTTP requests

1 Response response = ClientBuilder.newClient()
2 .target("http://example.com/resource")
3 .request()

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4 .get();

with asynchronous invocation (Example 6.5, “Asynchronous invocation of HTTP requests”)

Example 6.5. Asynchronous invocation of HTTP requests

1 Future<Response> response = ClientBuilder.newClient()
2 .target("http://example.com/resource")
3 .request()
4 .async()
5 .get();

it is apparent how to pretty conveniently modify the way how a request is invoked (from sync to async) only
by calling async method on an Invocation.Builder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/client/Invocation.Builder.html].

Naturally, it'd be nice to copy the same pattern to allow invoking requests in a reactive way. Just instead
of async you'd call rx on an extension of Invocation.Builder, like in Example 6.6, “Reactive
invocation of HTTP requests”.

Example 6.6. Reactive invocation of HTTP requests

1 Observable<Response> response = Rx.newClient(RxObservableInvoker.class)
2 .target("http://example.com/resource")
3 .request()
4 .rx()
5 .get();

To achieve this a few new interfaces had to be introduced in the Reactive Jersey Client API. The first
new interface is RxInvoker [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/
RxInvoker.html] which is very similar to SyncInvoker [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/client/SyncInvoker.html] and AsyncInvoker [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/AsyncInvoker.html]. It contains all methods present in the two latter JAX-RS
interfaces but the RxInvoker interface is more generic, so that it can be extended and used in particular
implementations taking advantage of various reactive libraries. Extending this new interface in a particular
implementation also preserves type safety which means that you're not loosing type information when a
HTTP method call returns an object that you want to process further.

As a user of the Reactive Jersey Client API you only need to keep in mind that you won't be working with
RxInvoker directly. You'd rather be working with an extension of this interface created for a particular
implementation and you don't need to be bothered much with why are things designed the way they are.

Note
To see how the RxInvoker should be extended, refer to Section 6.4, “Implementing Support
for Custom Reactive Libraries (SPI)”.
The important thing to notice here is that an extension of RxInvoker holds the type information and the
Reactive Jersey Client needs to know about this type to properly propagate it among the method calls you'll
be making. This is the reason why other interfaces (described bellow) are parametrized with this type.

In addition to having a concrete RxInvoker implementation ready there is also a need to

have an implementation of new reactive methods, rx() and rx(ExecutorService). They're
defined in RxInvocationBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
rx/RxInvocationBuilder.html] which extends the Invocation.Builder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Invocation.Builder.html] from JAX-RS. Using the first method you

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can simply access the reactive request invocation interface to invoke the built request and the second allows
you to specify the executor service to execute the current reactive request (and only this one).

To access the RxInvocationBuilder we needed to also extend JAX-RS Client

(RxClient [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/RxClient.html]) and
WebTarget (RxWebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/
RxWebTarget.html]) to preserve the fluent Client API introduced in JAX-RS.

With all these interfaces ready the only question left behind is the way how to create an instance of
Reactive Jersey Client. This functionality is beyond the actual JAX-RS API. It is not possible to create
such a client via the standard ClientBuilder entry point. To resolve this, we introduced a new helper
class, Rx [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/Rx.html], which does
the job. This class contains factory methods to create a new (reactive) client from scratch

• Rx.newClient(Class) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/
Rx.html#newClient(java.lang.Class)]

• Rx.newClient(Class,ExecutorService) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/rx/Rx.html#newClient(java.lang.Class, java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService)]

and it also contains methods to enhance an existing JAX-RS Client and WebTarget

• Rx.from(Client,Class) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/
Rx.html#from(javax.ws.rs.client.Client, java.lang.Class)]

• Rx.from(Client,Class,ExecutorService) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/rx/Rx.html#from(javax.ws.rs.client.Client, java.lang.Class,
java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService)]

• Rx.from(WebTarget,Class) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/
Rx.html#from(javax.ws.rs.client.WebTarget, java.lang.Class)]

• Rx.from(WebTarget,Class,ExecutorService) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/client/rx/Rx.html#from(javax.ws.rs.client.WebTarget, java.lang.Class,
java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService)]

It's possible to provide an ExecutorService [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/

ExecutorService.html] instance to tell the reactive client that all requests should be invoked using
this particular executor. This behaviour can be suppressed by providing another ExecutorService
instance for a particular request.

Similarly to the RxInvoker interface the Rx class is general and does not stick to any conrete
implementation (to see a list of supported reactive libraries, refer to Section 6.3, “Supported Reactive
Libraries”). When Reactive Clients are created using Rx factory methods, the actual invoker type
parameter has to be provided (this is not the case with similar helper classes created for particular reactive
libraries).

Dependencies
The Reactive Jersey Client is implemented as an extension module in Jersey. For Maven users, simply add
the following dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext.rx</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-rx-client</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>

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</dependency>

With this dependency only the basic classes would be added to your class-path without any support for any
reactive library. To add support for a particular library, see the Section 6.3, “Supported Reactive Libraries”.

Note
If you're not using Maven (or other dependency management tool) make sure to add also all
the transitive dependencies of this extension module (see jersey-rx-client [https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/project/jersey-rx-client/dependencies.html]) on the class-path.

6.3. Supported Reactive Libraries

There are already some available reactive (or reactive-like) libraries out there and Jersey brings support
for some of them out of the box. Jersey currently supports:

• RxJava (Observable)

• Java 8 (CompletionStage and CompletableFuture)

• Guava (ListenableFuture and Futures)

• JSR-166e (CompletableFuture)

6.3.1. RxJava – Observable

RxJava [https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava], contributed by Netflix, is probably the most advanced
reactive library for Java at the moment. It's used for composing asynchronous and event-based
programs by using observable sequences. It uses the observer pattern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Observer_pattern] to support these sequences of data/events via it's Observable [http://reactivex.io/
RxJava/javadoc//rx/Observable.html] entry point class which implements the Reactive Pattern.
Observable is actually the parameter type in the RxJava's extension of RxInvoker, called
RxObservableInvoker [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/rxjava/
RxObservableInvoker.html]. This means that the return type of HTTP method calls is Observable in
this case (accordingly parametrized).

Requests are by default invoked at the moment when a subscriber is subscribed to an observable (it's a cold
Observable). If not said otherwise a separate thread (JAX-RS Async Client requests) is used to obtain
data. This behavior can be overridden by providing an ExecutorService [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/
docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ExecutorService.html] when a reactive Client or WebTarget is created
or when a particular requests is about to be invoked.

Usage
A JAX-RS Client or WebTarget aware of reactive HTTP
calls, Jersey's RxClient [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/
RxClient.html] or RxWebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
rx/RxWebTarget.html] parametrized by RxObservableInvoker, can be created either via the generic
Rx [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/Rx.html] entry point or
the customized RxObservable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/
rxjava/RxObservable.html] one.

When using the generic entry point you need to specify the RxObservableInvoker invoker type to
obtain an appropriate instance of the client or the web target.

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Example 6.7. Creating Jersey/RxJava Client and WebTarget – Using Rx

1 // New Client
2 RxClient<RxObservableInvoker> newRxClient = Rx.newClient(RxObservableInvoker.cl
3
4 // From existing Client
5 RxClient<RxObservableInvoker> rxClient = Rx.from(client, RxObservableInvoker.cl
6
7 // From existing WebTarget
8 RxTarget<RxObservableInvoker> rxWebTarget = Rx.from(target, RxObservableInvoker

You can skip specifying the invoker type when you use RxObservable entry point.

Example 6.8. Creating Jersey/RxJava Client and WebTarget – Using RxObservable

1 // New Client
2 RxClient<RxObservableInvoker> newRxClient = RxObservable.newClient();
3
4 // From existing Client
5 RxClient<RxObservableInvoker> rxClient = RxObservable.from(client);
6
7 // From existing WebTarget
8 RxTarget<RxObservableInvoker> rxWebTarget = RxObservable.from(target);

In addition to specifying the invoker type and client/web-target instances, when using the factory
methods in the entry points mentioned above, an ExecutorService can be specified that
will be used to execute requests on separate threads. In the case of RxJava the executor
service is utilized to create a Scheduler [http://reactivex.io/RxJava/javadoc//rx/Scheduler.html] that
is later leveraged in both Observable#observeOn(rx.Scheduler) [http://reactivex.io/RxJava/javadoc//
rx/Observable.html#observeOn(rx.Scheduler)] and Observable#subscribeOn(rx.Scheduler) [http://
reactivex.io/RxJava/javadoc//rx/Observable.html#subscribeOn(rx.Scheduler)].

An example of obtaining Observable with JAX-RS Response from a remote service can be seen in
Example 6.9, “Obtaining Observable<Response> from Jersey/RxJava Client”.

Example 6.9. Obtaining Observable<Response> from Jersey/RxJava Client

1 Observable<Response> observable = RxObservable.newClient()
2 .target("http://example.com/resource")
3 .request()
4 .rx()
5 .get();
6

Dependencies
The Reactive Jersey Client with RxJava support is available as an extension module in Jersey. For Maven
users, simply add the following dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext.rx</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-rx-client-rxjava</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

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After this step you can use the extended client right away. The dependency transitively adds the
following dependencies to your class-path as well: org.glassfish.jersey.ext.rx:jersey-
rx-client and io.reactivex:rxjava.

Note
If you're not using Maven (or other dependency management tool) make sure to
add also all the transitive dependencies of this extension module (see jersey-rx-client-
rxjava [https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/project/jersey-rx-client-rxjava/
dependencies.html]) on the class-path.

6.3.2. Java 8 – CompletionStage and CompletableFuture

Java 8 natively contains asynchronous/event-based completion aware types, CompletionStage [http://
docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/CompletionStage.html] and CompletableFuture
[http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/CompletableFuture.html]. These types can
be then combined with Stream [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/stream/Stream.html]s
to achieve similar functionality as provided by RxJava (see Section 6.3.1, “RxJava (Observable)”
for more information). CompletionStage is the parameter type in the Java 8 extension
of RxInvoker, called RxCompletionStageInvoker [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/client/rx/java8/RxCompletionStageInvoker.html]. This means that the return type of
HTTP method calls is CompletionStage in this case (accordingly parametrized).

Requests are by default invoked immediately. If not said otherwise the ForkJoinPool#commonPool()
[http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ForkJoinPool.html#commonPool--] pool is
used to obtain a thread which processed the request. This behavior can be overridden by providing
an ExecutorService [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ExecutorService.html]
when a reactive Client or WebTarget is created or when a particular request is about to be invoked.

Usage
A JAX-RS Client or WebTarget aware of reactive HTTP
calls, Jersey's RxClient [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/
RxClient.html] or RxWebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
rx/RxWebTarget.html] parametrized by RxCompletionStageInvoker, can be created either via
the generic Rx [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/Rx.html] entry
point or the customized RxCompletionStage [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/rx/java8/RxCompletionStage.html] one.

When using the generic entry point you need to specify the RxCompletionStage invoker type to obtain
an appropriate instance of the client or the web target.

Example 6.10. Creating Jersey/Java8 Client and WebTarget – Using Rx

1 // New Client
2 RxClient<RxCompletionStageInvoker> newRxClient = Rx.newClient(RxCompletionStage
3
4 // From existing Client
5 RxClient<RxCompletionStageInvoker> rxClient = Rx.from(client, RxCompletionStage
6
7 // From existing WebTarget
8 RxTarget<RxCompletionStageInvoker> rxWebTarget = Rx.from(target, RxCompletionSt

You can skip specifying the invoker type when you use the RxCompletionStage entry point.

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Example 6.11. Creating Jersey/Java 8 Client and WebTarget – Using

RxCompletionStage
1 // New Client
2 RxClient<RxCompletionStageInvoker> newRxClient = RxCompletionStage.newClient();
3
4 // From existing Client
5 RxClient<RxCompletionStageInvoker> rxClient = RxCompletionStage.from(client);
6
7 // From existing WebTarget
8 RxTarget<RxCompletionStageInvoker> rxWebTarget = RxCompletionStage.from(target)

In addition to specifying the invoker type and client/web-target instances, when using the factory methods
in the entry points mentioned above, an ExecutorService instance could be specifies that should be
used to execute requests on a separate thread.

An example of obtaining CompletionStage with JAX-RS Response from a remote service can be
seen in Example 6.12, “Obtaining CompletionStage<Response> from Jersey/Java 8 Client”.

Example 6.12. Obtaining CompletionStage<Response> from Jersey/Java 8 Client

1 CompletionStage<Response> stage = RxCompletionStage.newClient()
2 .target("http://example.com/resource")
3 .request()
4 .rx()
5 .get();
6

Dependencies
Important
To use this module the application has to be compiled (with javac -target option
set to 1.8) and run in a Java 8 environment. If you want to use Reactive Jersey Client
with CompletableFuture in pre-Java 8 environment, see Section 6.3.4, “JSR-166e
(CompletableFuture)”.

The Reactive Jersey Client with Java 8 support is available as an extension module in Jersey. For Maven
users, simply add the following dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext.rx</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-rx-client-java8</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

After this step you can use the extended client right away. The dependency transitively adds the following
dependency to your class-path as well: org.glassfish.jersey.ext.rx:jersey-rx-client.

Note
If you're not using Maven (or other dependency management tool) make sure
to add also all the transitive dependencies of this extension module (see jersey-
rx-client-java8 [https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/project/jersey-rx-client-
java8/dependencies.html]) on the class-path.

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6.3.3. Guava – ListenableFuture and Futures

Guava [https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/], contributed by Google, also contains
a type, ListenableFuture [http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git-history/v18.0/javadoc/com/
google/common/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture.html], which can be decorated with listeners that
are notified when the future completes. The ListenableFuture can be combined with
Futures [http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git-history/v18.0/javadoc/com/google/common/util/
concurrent/Futures.html] to achieve asynchronous/event-based completion aware processing.
ListenableFuture is the parameter type in the Guava's extension of RxInvoker,
called RxListenableFutureInvoker [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
client/rx/guava/RxListenableFutureInvoker.html]. This means that the return type of HTTP method calls
is ListenableFuture in this case (accordingly parametrized).

Requests are by default invoked immediately. If not said otherwise

the Executors#newCachedThreadPool() [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/
Executors.html#newCachedThreadPool--] pool is used to obtain a thread which processed the request.
This behavior can be overridden by providing a ExecutorService [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/
api/java/util/concurrent/ExecutorService.html] when a reactive Client or WebTarget is created or
when a particular requests is about to be invoked.

Usage
A JAX-RS Client or WebTarget aware of reactive HTTP
calls, Jersey's RxClient [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/
RxClient.html] or RxWebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
rx/RxWebTarget.html] parametrized by RxListenableFutureInvoker, can be created either via
the generic Rx [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/Rx.html] entry
point or the customized RxListenableFuture [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/rx/guava/RxListenableFuture.html] one.

When using the generic entry point you need to specify the RxListenableFutureInvoker invoker
type to obtain an appropriate instance of the client or the web target.

Example 6.13. Creating Jersey/Guava Client and WebTarget – Using Rx

1 // New Client
2 RxClient<RxListenableFutureInvoker> newRxClient = Rx.newClient(RxListenableFutu
3
4 // From existing Client
5 RxClient<RxListenableFutureInvoker> rxClient = Rx.from(client, RxListenableFutu
6
7 // From existing WebTarget
8 RxTarget<RxListenableFutureInvoker> rxWebTarget = Rx.from(target, RxListenableF

You can skip specifying the invoker type when you use RxListenableFuture entry point.

Example 6.14. Creating Jersey/Guava Client and WebTarget – Using

RxListenableFuture
1 // New Client
2 RxClient<RxListenableFutureInvoker> newRxClient = RxListenableFuture.newClient(
3
4 // From existing Client

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5 RxClient<RxListenableFutureInvoker> rxClient = RxListenableFuture.from(client);

6
7 // From existing WebTarget
8 RxTarget<RxListenableFutureInvoker> rxWebTarget = RxListenableFuture.from(targe

In addition to specifying the invoker type and client/web-target instances, when using the factory methods
in the entry points mentioned above, an ExecutorService can be specified that will be used to execute
requests on a separate thread.

An example of obtaining ListenableFuture with JAX-RS Response from a remote service can be
seen in Example 6.15, “Obtaining ListenableFuture<Response> from Jersey/Guava Client”.

Example 6.15. Obtaining ListenableFuture<Response> from Jersey/Guava Client

1 ListenableFuture<Response> stage = RxListenableFuture.newClient()
2 .target("http://example.com/resource")
3 .request()
4 .rx()
5 .get();
6

Dependencies
The Reactive Jersey Client with Guava support is available as an extension module in Jersey. For Maven
users, simply add the following dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext.rx</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-rx-client-guava</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

After this step you can use the extended client right away. The dependency transitively adds the
following dependencies to your class-path as well: org.glassfish.jersey.ext.rx:jersey-
rx-client and com.google.guava:guava.

Note
If you're not using Maven (or other dependency management tool) make sure to
add also all the transitive dependencies of this extension module (see jersey-rx-client-
guava [https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/project/jersey-rx-client-guava/
dependencies.html]) on the class-path.

6.3.4. JSR-166e – CompletableFuture

When Java 8 is not an option but the functionality of CompletionStage [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/
docs/api/java/util/concurrent/CompletionStage.html] and CompletableFuture [http://docs.oracle.com/
javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/CompletableFuture.html] is required a JSR 166 [http://
g.oswego.edu/dl/concurrency-interest/] library can be used. It's a back-port of classes from
java.util.concurrent package added to Java 8. Contributed and maintained by Doug Lea.
CompletableFuture is the parameter type in the JSR-166e's extension of RxInvoker, called
RxCompletableFutureInvoker [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/
jsr166e/RxCompletableFutureInvoker.html]. This means that the return type of HTTP method calls is
CompletableFuture in this case (accordingly parametrized).

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Requests are by default invoked immediately. If not said otherwise the ForkJoinPool.html#commonPool()
[http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/jsr166/dist/jsr166edocs//jsr166e/ForkJoinPool.html#commonPool()] pool is
used to obtain a thread which processed the request. This behavior can be overridden by providing
an ExecutorService [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ExecutorService.html]
when a reactive Client or WebTarget is created or when a particular requests is about to be invoked.

Usage
A JAX-RS Client or WebTarget aware of reactive HTTP
calls, Jersey's RxClient [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/
RxClient.html] or RxWebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
rx/RxWebTarget.html] parametrized by RxCompletableFutureInvoker, can be created either via
the generic Rx [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/Rx.html] entry
point or the customized RxCompletableFuture [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/rx/jsr166e/RxCompletableFuture.html] one.

When using the generic entry point you need to specify the RxCompletableFutureInvoker invoker
type to obtain an appropriate instance of the client or the web target.

Example 6.16. Creating Jersey/JSR-166e Client and WebTarget – Using Rx

1 // New Client
2 RxClient<RxCompletableFutureInvoker> newRxClient = Rx.newClient(RxCompletableFu
3
4 // From existing Client
5 RxClient<RxCompletableFutureInvoker> rxClient = Rx.from(client, RxCompletableFu
6
7 // From existing WebTarget
8 RxTarget<RxCompletableFutureInvoker> rxWebTarget = Rx.from(target, RxCompletabl

You can skip specifying the invoker type when you use RxCompletableFuture entry point.

Example 6.17. Creating Jersey/JSR-166e Client and WebTarget – Using

RxCompletableFuture
1 // New Client
2 RxClient<RxCompletableFutureInvoker> newRxClient = RxCompletableFuture.newClien
3
4 // From existing Client
5 RxClient<RxCompletableFutureInvoker> rxClient = RxCompletableFuture.from(client
6
7 // From existing WebTarget
8 RxTarget<RxCompletableFutureInvoker> rxWebTarget = RxCompletableFuture.from(tar

In addition to specifying the invoker type and client/web-target instances, when using the factory methods
in the entry points mentioned above, an ExecutorService can be specified that is further used to
execute requests on a separate thread.

An example of obtaining CompletableFuture with JAX-RS Response from a remote service can
be seen in Example 6.18, “Obtaining CompletableFuture<Response> from Jersey/JSR-166e Client”.

Example 6.18. Obtaining CompletableFuture<Response> from Jersey/JSR-166e

Client
1 CompletableFuture<Response> stage = RxCompletableFuture.newClient()

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2 .target("http://example.com/resource")
3 .request()
4 .rx()
5 .get();
6

Dependencies
Important
If you're compiling and running your application in Java 8 environment consider using Reactive
Jersey Client with CompletableFuture with Section 6.3.2, “Java 8 (CompletionStage and
CompletableFuture)” instead.

The Reactive Jersey Client with JSR-166e support is available as an extension module in Jersey. For Maven
users, simply add the following dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext.rx</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-rx-client-jsr166e</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

After this step you can use the extended client right away. The dependency transitively adds the
following dependencies to your class-path as well: org.glassfish.jersey.ext.rx:jersey-
rx-client and org.glassfish.jersey.bundles.repackaged:jersey-jsr166e. The
later is the JSR-166e library repackaged by Jersey to make sure the OSGi headers are correct and the
library can be used in OSGi environment.

Note
If you're not using Maven (or other dependency management tool) make sure to
add also all the transitive dependencies of this extension module (see jersey-rx-
client-jsr166e [https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/project/jersey-rx-client-
jsr166e/dependencies.html]) on the class-path.

6.4. Implementing Support for Custom Reactive

Libraries (SPI)
In case you want to bring support for some other library providing Reactive Programming Model into
your application you can extend functionality of Reactive Jersey Client by implementing SPI available in
jersey-rx-client module. Steps to do such a thing are as follows.

Extend RxInvoker interface

Even though not entirely intuitive this step is required when a support for a custom reactive library
is needed. As mentioned above few JAX-RS Client interfaces had to be modified in order to make
possible to invoke HTTP calls in a reactive way. All of them except the RxInvoker [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/RxInvoker.html] extend the original interfaces from
JAX-RS (e.g. Client). RxInvoker is a brand new interface (very similar to SyncInvoker and
AsyncInvoker) that actually lets you to invoke HTTP methods in the reactive way.

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Example 6.19. RxInvoker snippet

1 public interface RxInvoker<T> {
2
3 public <T> get();
4
5 public <R> <T> get(Class<R> responseType);
6
7 // ...
8
9 }

As you can notice it's too generic as it's designed to support various reactive libraries without bringing
any additional abstractions and restrictions. The first type parameter, T, is the asynchronous/event-based
completion aware type (e.g. Observable). The given type should be parametrized with the actual
response type. And since it's not possible to parametrize type parameter it's an obligation of the extension
of RxInvoker to do that. That applies to simpler methods, such as get(), as well as to more advanced
methods, for example get(Class).

In the first case it's enough to parametrize the needed type with Response, e.g.
Observable<Response> get(). The second case uses the type parameter from the parameter of
the method. To accordingly extend the get(Class<R>) method you need to parametrize the needed
type with R type parameter, e.g. <T> Observable<T> get(Class<T> responseType).

To summarize the requirements above and illustrate them in one code snippet the Example 6.20,
“Extending RxInvoker - RxObservableInvoker” is an excerpt from RxObservableInvoker that works
with RxJava's Observable.

Example 6.20. Extending RxInvoker - RxObservableInvoker

1 public interface RxObservableInvoker extends RxInvoker<Observable> {
2
3 @Override
4 public Observable<Response> get();
5
6 @Override
7 public <T> Observable<T> get(Class<T> responseType);
8
9 // ...
10
11 }

Implement the extended interface

Either you can implement the extension of RxInvoker from scratch or it's possible to extend
from AbstractRxInvoker [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/spi/
AbstractRxInvoker.html] abstract class which serves as a default implementation of the interface. In the
later case only #method(...) methods are needed to be implemented as the default implementation of
other methods (HTTP calls) delegates to these methods.

Implement and register RxInvokerProvider

To create an instance of particular RxInvoker an implementation
of RxInvokerProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/rx/spi/

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RxInvokerProvider.html] SPI interface is needed. When a concrete RxInvoker is requested the runtime
goes through all available providers and finds one which supports the given invoker type. It is expected
that each provider supports mapping for distinct set of types and subtypes so that different providers do
not conflict with each other.

Example 6.21. Example of RxInvokerProvider - RxObservableInvokerProvider

1 public final class RxObservableInvokerProvider implements RxInvokerProvider {
2
3 @Override
4 public <T> T getInvoker(final Class<T> invokerType, final Invocation.Builde
5 if (RxObservableInvoker.class.isAssignableFrom(invokerType)) {
6 return invokerType.cast(new JerseyRxObservableInvoker(builder, exec
7 }
8 return null;
9 }
10 }

Reactive Jersey Client looks for all available RxInvokerProviders via

the standard META-INF/services mechanism. It's enough to bundle
org.glassfish.jersey.client.rx.spi.RxInvokerProvider file with your library and
reference your implementation (by fully qualified class name) from it.

Example 6.22. META-INF/services/

org.glassfish.jersey.client.rx.spi.RxInvokerProvider
org.glassfish.jersey.client.rx.rxjava.RxObservableInvokerProvider

6.5. Examples
To see a complete working examples of various approaches using JAX-RS Client API (Sync and Async)
and Reactive Jersey Client APIs feature refer to the:

• Travel Agency (Orchestration Layer) Example using Reactive Jersey Client API [https://github.com/
jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/rx-client-webapp]

• Travel Agency (Orchestration Layer) Example using Reactive Jersey Client API (Java 8) [https://
github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/rx-client-java8-webapp]

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Responses
7.1. Representations and Java Types
Previous sections on @Produces [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/Produces.html] and @Consumes [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
Consumes.html] annotations referred to media type of an entity representation. Examples above depicted
resource methods that could consume and/or produce String Java type for a number of different media
types. This approach is easy to understand and relatively straightforward when applied to simple use cases.

To cover also other cases, handling non-textual data for example or handling data stored in the file system,
etc., JAX-RS implementations are required to support also other kinds of media type conversions where
additional, non-String, Java types are being utilized. Following is a short listing of the Java types that are
supported out of the box with respect to supported media type:

• All media types (*/*)

• byte[]

• java.lang.String

• java.io.Reader (inbound only)

• java.io.File

• javax.activation.DataSource

• javax.ws.rs.core.StreamingOutput (outbound only)

• XML media types (text/xml, application/xml and application/...+xml)

• javax.xml.transform.Source

• javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement

• Application supplied JAXB classes (types annotated with @XmlRootElement [http://

docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlRootElement.html]
or@XmlType [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlType.html])

• Form content (application/x-www-form-urlencoded)

• MultivaluedMap<String,String>

• Plain text (text/plain)

• java.lang.Boolean

• java.lang.Character

• java.lang.Number

Unlike method parameters that are associated with the extraction of request parameters, the method
parameter associated with the representation being consumed does not require annotating. In other words

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the representation (entity) parameter does not require a specific 'entity' annotation. A method parameter
without a annotation is an entity. A maximum of one such unannotated method parameter may exist since
there may only be a maximum of one such representation sent in a request.

The representation being produced corresponds to what is returned by the resource method. For example
JAX-RS makes it simple to produce images that are instance of File as follows:

Example 7.1. Using File with a specific media type to produce a response
1 @GET
2 @Path("/images/{image}")
3 @Produces("image/*")
4 public Response getImage(@PathParam("image") String image) {
5 File f = new File(image);
6
7 if (!f.exists()) {
8 throw new WebApplicationException(404);
9 }
10
11 String mt = new MimetypesFileTypeMap().getContentType(f);
12 return Response.ok(f, mt).build();
13 }

The File type can also be used when consuming a representation (request entity). In that case a temporary
file will be created from the incoming request entity and passed as a parameter to the resource method.

The Content-Type response header (if not set programmatically as described in the next section)
will be automatically set based on the media types declared by @Produces [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Produces.html] annotation. Given the following method, the most
acceptable media type is used when multiple output media types are allowed:

1 @GET
2 @Produces({"application/xml", "application/json"})
3 public String doGetAsXmlOrJson() {
4 ...
5 }

If application/xml is the most acceptable media type defined by the request (e.g. by header
Accept: application/xml), then the Content-Type response header will be set to
application/xml.

7.2. Building Responses

Sometimes it is necessary to return additional information in response to a HTTP request. Such information
may be built and returned using Response [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/core/Response.html] and Response.ResponseBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/core/Response.ResponseBuilder.html]. For example, a common RESTful pattern for the
creation of a new resource is to support a POST request that returns a 201 (Created) status code and a
Location header whose value is the URI to the newly created resource. This may be achieved as follows:

Example 7.2. Returning 201 status code and adding Location header in response
to POST request
1 @POST

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2 @Consumes("application/xml")
3 public Response post(String content) {
4 URI createdUri = ...
5 create(content);
6 return Response.created(createdUri).build();
7 }

In the above no representation produced is returned, this can be achieved by building an entity as part of
the response as follows:

Example 7.3. Adding an entity body to a custom response

1 @POST
2 @Consumes("application/xml")
3 public Response post(String content) {
4 URI createdUri = ...
5 String createdContent = create(content);
6 return Response.created(createdUri).entity(Entity.text(createdContent)).build
7 }

Response building provides other functionality such as setting the entity tag and last modified date of the
representation.

7.3. WebApplicationException and Mapping

Exceptions to Responses
Previous section shows how to return HTTP responses, that are built up programmatically. It is possible
to use the very same mechanism to return HTTP errors directly, e.g. when handling exceptions in a try-
catch block. However, to better align with the Java programming model, JAX-RS allows to define direct
mapping of Java exceptions to HTTP error responses.

The following example shows throwing CustomNotFoundException from a resource method in

order to return an error HTTP response to the client:

Example 7.4. Throwing exceptions to control response

1 @Path("items/{itemid}/")
2 public Item getItem(@PathParam("itemid") String itemid) {
3 Item i = getItems().get(itemid);
4 if (i == null) {
5 throw new CustomNotFoundException("Item, " + itemid + ", is not found");
6 }
7
8 return i;
9 }

This exception is an application specific exception that extends WebApplicationException

[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/WebApplicationException.html] and builds
a HTTP response with the 404 status code and an optional message as the body of the response:

Example 7.5. Application specific exception implementation

1 public class CustomNotFoundException extends WebApplicationException {

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2
3 /**
4 * Create a HTTP 404 (Not Found) exception.
5 */
6 public CustomNotFoundException() {
7 super(Responses.notFound().build());
8 }
9
10 /**
11 * Create a HTTP 404 (Not Found) exception.
12 * @param message the String that is the entity of the 404 response.
13 */
14 public CustomNotFoundException(String message) {
15 super(Response.status(Responses.NOT_FOUND).
16 entity(message).type("text/plain").build());
17 }
18 }

In other cases it may not be appropriate to throw instances of WebApplicationException

[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/WebApplicationException.html], or classes
that extend WebApplicationException [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
WebApplicationException.html], and instead it may be preferable to map an existing exception
to a response. For such cases it is possible to use a custom exception mapping
provider. The provider must implement the ExceptionMapper<E extends Throwable> [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/ExceptionMapper.html] interface. For example,
the following maps the EntityNotFoundException [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/api/javax/persistence/
EntityNotFoundException.html] to a HTTP 404 (Not Found) response:

Example 7.6. Mapping generic exceptions to responses

1 @Provider
2 public class EntityNotFoundMapper implements ExceptionMapper<javax.persistence.
3 public Response toResponse(javax.persistence.EntityNotFoundException ex) {
4 return Response.status(404).
5 entity(ex.getMessage()).
6 type("text/plain").
7 build();
8 }
9 }

The above class is annotated with @Provider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/

ws/rs/ext/Provider.html], this declares that the class is of interest to the JAX-RS runtime.
Such a class may be added to the set of classes of the Application [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html] instance that is configured. When an
application throws an EntityNotFoundException [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/persistence/
EntityNotFoundException.html] the toResponse method of the EntityNotFoundMapper instance
will be invoked.

Jersey supports extension of the exception mappers. These extended mappers must implement
the org.glassfish.jersey.spi.ExtendedExceptionMapper interface. This interface
additionally defines method isMappable(Throwable) which will be invoked by the Jersey runtime
when exception is thrown and this provider is considered as mappable based on the exception type. Using
this method the provider can reject mapping of the exception before the method toResponse is invoked.
The provider can for example check the exception parameters and based on them return false and let other
provider to be chosen for the exception mapping.

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7.4. Conditional GETs and Returning 304 (Not

Modified) Responses
Conditional GETs are a great way to reduce bandwidth, and potentially improve on the server-side
performance, depending on how the information used to determine conditions is calculated. A well-
designed web site may for example return 304 (Not Modified) responses for many of static images it serves.

JAX-RS provides support for conditional GETs using the contextual interface Request [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Request.html].

The following example shows conditional GET support:

Example 7.7. Conditional GET support

1 public SparklinesResource(
2 @QueryParam("d") IntegerList data,
3 @DefaultValue("0,100") @QueryParam("limits") Interval limits,
4 @Context Request request,
5 @Context UriInfo ui) {
6 if (data == null) {
7 throw new WebApplicationException(400);
8 }
9
10 this.data = data;
11 this.limits = limits;
12
13 if (!limits.contains(data)) {
14 throw new WebApplicationException(400);
15 }
16
17 this.tag = computeEntityTag(ui.getRequestUri());
18
19 if (request.getMethod().equals("GET")) {
20 Response.ResponseBuilder rb = request.evaluatePreconditions(tag);
21 if (rb != null) {
22 throw new WebApplicationException(rb.build());
23 }
24 }
25 }

The constructor of the SparklinesResouce root resource class computes an entity tag from the request
URI and then calls the request.evaluatePreconditions [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/core/Request.html#evaluatePreconditions(javax.ws.rs.core.EntityTag)] with that entity tag.
If a client request contains an If-None-Match header with a value that contains the same
entity tag that was calculated then the evaluatePreconditions [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Request.html#evaluatePreconditions(javax.ws.rs.core.EntityTag)] returns a pre-
filled out response, with the 304 status code and entity tag set, that may be built and
returned. Otherwise, evaluatePreconditions [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/core/Request.html#evaluatePreconditions(javax.ws.rs.core.EntityTag)] returns null and the normal
response can be returned.

Notice that in this example the constructor of a resource class is used to perform actions that may otherwise
have to be duplicated to invoked for each resource method. The life cycle of resource classes is per-request

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which means that the resource instance is created for each request and therefore can work with request
parameters and for example make changes to the request processing by throwing an exception as it is
shown in this example.

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8.1. Introduction
Entity payload, if present in an received HTTP message, is passed to Jersey from an I/O container as
an input stream. The stream may, for example, contain data represented as a plain text, XML or JSON
document. However, in many JAX-RS components that process these inbound data, such as resource
methods or client responses, the JAX-RS API user can access the inbound entity as an arbitrary Java
object that is created from the content of the input stream based on the representation type information.
For example, an entity created from an input stream that contains data represented as a XML document,
can be converted to a custom JAXB bean. Similar concept is supported for the outbound entities. An entity
returned from the resource method in the form of an arbitrary Java object can be serialized by Jersey
into a container output stream as a specified representation. Of course, while JAX-RS implementations
do provide default support for most common combinations of Java type and it's respective on-the-wire
representation formats, JAX-RS implementations do not support the conversion described above for any
arbitrary Java type and any arbitrary representation format by default. Instead, a generic extension concept
is exposed in JAX-RS API to allow application-level customizations of this JAX-RS runtime to support
for entity conversions. The JAX-RS extension API components that provide the user-level extensibility
are typically referred to by several terms with the same meaning, such as entity providers, message body
providers, message body workers or message body readers and writers. You may find all these terms used
interchangeably throughout the user guide and they all refer to the same concept.

In JAX-RS extension API (or SPI - service provider interface, if you like) the concept
is captured in 2 interfaces. One for handling inbound entity representation-to-Java de-
serialization - MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
ext/MessageBodyReader.html] and the other one for handling the outbound entity Java-to-representation
serialization - MessageBodyWriter<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/
MessageBodyWriter.html]. A MessageBodyReader<T>, as the name suggests, is an extension that
supports reading the message body representation from an input stream and converting the data into an
instance of a specific Java type. A MessageBodyWriter<T> is then responsible for converting a
message payload from an instance of a specific Java type into a specific representation format that is sent
over the wire to the other party as part of an HTTP message exchange. Both of these providers can be used
to provide message payload serialization and de-serialization support on the server as well as the client
side. A message body reader or writer is always used whenever a HTTP request or response contains an
entity and the entity is either requested by the application code (e.g. injected as a parameter of JAX-RS
resource method or a response entity read on the client from a Response [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Response.html]) or has to be serialized and sent to the other party (e.g.
an instance returned from a JAX-RS resource method or a request entity sent by a JAX-RS client).

8.2. How to Write Custom Entity Providers

A best way how to learn about entity providers is to walk through an example
of writing one. Therefore we will describe here the process of implementing
a custom MessageBodyWriter<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/
MessageBodyWriter.html] and MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/MessageBodyReader.html] using a practical example. Let's first setup the stage
by defining a JAX-RS resource class for the server side story of our application.

Example 8.1. Example resource class

1 @Path("resource")

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2 public class MyResource {

3 @GET
4 @Produces("application/xml")
5 public MyBean getMyBean() {
6 return new MyBean("Hello World!", 42);
7 }
8
9 @POST
10 @Consumes("application/xml")
11 public String postMyBean(MyBean myBean) {
12 return myBean.anyString;
13 }
14 }

The resource class defines GET and POST resource methods. Both methods work with an entity that is
an instance of MyBean.

The MyBean class is defined in the next example:

Example 8.2. MyBean entity class

1 @XmlRootElement
2 public class MyBean {
3 @XmlElement
4 public String anyString;
5 @XmlElement
6 public int anyNumber;
7
8 public MyBean(String anyString, int anyNumber) {
9 this.anyString = anyString;
10 this.anyNumber = anyNumber;
11 }
12
13 // empty constructor needed for deserialization by JAXB
14 public MyBean() {
15 }
16
17 @Override
18 public String toString() {
19 return "MyBean{" +
20 "anyString='" + anyString + '\'' +
21 ", anyNumber=" + anyNumber +
22 '}';
23 }
24 }

8.2.1. MessageBodyWriter
The MyBean is a JAXB-annotated POJO. In GET resource method we return the instance of MyBean and
we would like Jersey runtime to serialize it into XML and write it as an entity body to the response output
stream. We design a custom MessageBodyWriter<T> that can serialize this POJO into XML. See
the following code sample:

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Note
Please note, that this is only a demonstration of how to write a custom entity provider. Jersey
already contains default support for entity providers that can serialize JAXB beans into XML.

Example 8.3. MessageBodyWriter example

1 @Produces("application/xml")
2 public class MyBeanMessageBodyWriter implements MessageBodyWriter<MyBean> {
3
4 @Override
5 public boolean isWriteable(Class<?> type, Type genericType,
6 Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType) {
7 return type == MyBean.class;
8 }
9
10 @Override
11 public long getSize(MyBean myBean, Class<?> type, Type genericType,
12 Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType) {
13 // deprecated by JAX-RS 2.0 and ignored by Jersey runtime
14 return 0;
15 }
16
17 @Override
18 public void writeTo(MyBean myBean,
19 Class<?> type,
20 Type genericType,
21 Annotation[] annotations,
22 MediaType mediaType,
23 MultivaluedMap<String, Object> httpHeaders,
24 OutputStream entityStream)
25 throws IOException, WebApplicationException {
26
27 try {
28 JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(MyBean.class);
29
30 // serialize the entity myBean to the entity output stream
31 jaxbContext.createMarshaller().marshal(myBean, entityStream);
32 } catch (JAXBException jaxbException) {
33 throw new ProcessingException(
34 "Error serializing a MyBean to the output stream", jaxbExceptio
35 }
36 }
37 }

The MyBeanMessageBodyWriter implements the MessageBodyWriter<T> interface that

contains three methods. In the next sections we'll explore these methods more closely.

8.2.1.1. MessageBodyWriter.isWriteable
A method isWriteable should return true if the MessageBodyWriter<T> is able to write the given
type. Method does not decide only based on the Java type of the entity but also on annotations attached
to the entity and the requested representation media type.

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Parameters type and genericType both define the entity, where type is a raw Java type (for example,
a java.util.List class) and genericType is a ParameterizedType [http://docs.oracle.com/
javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/ParameterizedType.html] including generic information (for example
List<String>).

Parameter annotations contains annotations that are either attached to the resource method and/or
annotations that are attached to the entity by building response like in the following piece of code:

Example 8.4. Example of assignment of annotations to a response entity

1 @Path("resource")
2 public static class AnnotatedResource {
3
4 @GET
5 public Response get() {
6 Annotation annotation = AnnotatedResource.class
7 .getAnnotation(Path.class);
8 return Response.ok()
9 .entity("Entity", new Annotation[] {annotation}).build();
10 }
11 }

In the example above, the MessageBodyWriter<T> would get annotations parameter containing
a JAX-RS @GET annotation as it annotates the resource method and also a @Path annotation as it is
passed in the response (but not because it annotates the resource; only resource method annotations
are included). In the case of MyResource and method getMyBean the annotations would contain
the @GET [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/GET.html] and the @Produces
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Produces.html] annotation.

The last parameter of the isWriteable method is the mediaType which is the media type attached
to the response entity by annotating the resource method with a @Produces annotation or the request
media type specified in the JAX-RS Client API. In our example, the media type passed to providers for
the resource MyResource and method getMyBean would be "application/xml".

In our implementation of the isWriteable method, we just check that the type is MyBean. Please note,
that this method might be executed multiple times by Jersey runtime as Jersey needs to check whether this
provider can be used for a particular combination of entity Java type, media type, and attached annotations,
which may be potentially a performance hog. You can limit the number of execution by properly defining
the @Produces annotation on the MessageBodyWriter<T>. In our case thanks to @Produces
annotation, the provider will be considered as writeable (and the method isWriteable might be
executed) only if the media type of the outbound message is "application/xml". Additionally, the
provider will only be considered as possible candidate and its isWriteable method will be executed,
if the generic type of the provider is either a sub class or super class of type parameter.

8.2.1.2. MessageBodyWriter.writeTo
Once a message body writer is selected as the most appropriate (see the Section 8.3, “Entity Provider
Selection” for more details on entity provider selection), its writeTo method is invoked. This method
receives parameters with the same meaning as in isWriteable as well as a few additional ones.

In addition to the parameters already introduced, the writeTo method defies also httpHeaders
parameter, that contains HTTP headers associated with the outbound message.

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Note
When a MessageBodyWriter<T> is invoked, the headers still can be modified in this
point and any modification will be reflected in the outbound HTTP message being sent. The
modification of headers must however happen before a first byte is written to the supplied output
stream.

Another new parameter, myBean, contains the entity instance to be serialized (the type of entity
corresponds to generic type of MessageBodyWriter<T>). Related parameter entityStream
contains the entity output stream to which the method should serialize the entity. In our case we use JAXB
to marshall the entity into the entityStream. Note, that the entityStream is not closed at the end
of method; the stream will be closed by Jersey.

Important
Do not close the entity output stream in the writeTo method of your
MessageBodyWriter<T> implementation.

8.2.1.3. MessageBodyWriter.getSize
The method is deprecated since JAX-RS 2.0 and Jersey 2 ignores the return value. In JAX-RS 1.0
the method could return the size of the entity that would be then used for "Content-Length" response
header. In Jersey 2.0 the "Content-Length" parameter is computed automatically using an internal
outbound entity buffering. For details about configuration options of outbound entity buffering see the
javadoc of MessageProperties [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/
MessageProperties.html], property OUTBOUND_CONTENT_LENGTH_BUFFER which configures the
size of the buffer.

Note
You can disable the Jersey outbound entity buffering by setting the buffer size to 0.

8.2.1.4. Testing a MessageBodyWriter<T>

Before testing the MyBeanMessageBodyWriter, the writer must be registered as a custom JAX-RS
extension provider. It should either be added to your application ResourceConfig [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ResourceConfig.html], or returned from your custom
Application [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html] sub-
class, or annotated with @Provider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/
Provider.html] annotation to leverage JAX-RS provider auto-discovery feature.

After registering the MyBeanMessageBodyWriter and MyResource class in our application, the
request can be initiated (in this example from Client API).

Example 8.5. Client code testing MyBeanMessageBodyWriter

1 WebTarget webTarget = // initialize web target to the context root
2 // of example application
3 Response response = webTarget.path("resource")
4 .request(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML).get();
5 System.out.println(response.getStatus());
6 String myBeanXml = response.readEntity(String.class);
7 System.out.println(myBeanXml);

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The client code initiates the GET which will be matched to the resource method
MyResource.getMyBean(). The response entity is de-serialized as a String.

The result of console output is:

Example 8.6. Result of MyBeanMessageBodyWriter test

200
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><myBean>
<anyString>Hello World!</anyString><anyNumber>42</anyNumber></myBean>

The returned status is 200 and the entity is stored in the response in a XML format. Next, we will look at
how the Jersey de-serializes this XML document into a MyBean consumed by our POST resource method.

8.2.2. MessageBodyReader
In order to de-serialize the entity of MyBean on the server or the client, we need to implement
a custom MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/
MessageBodyReader.html].

Note
Please note, that this is only a demonstration of how to write a custom entity provider. Jersey
already contains default support for entity providers that can serialize JAXB beans into XML.

Our MessageBodyReader<T> implementation is listed in Example 8.7, “MessageBodyReader

example”.

Example 8.7. MessageBodyReader example

1 public static class MyBeanMessageBodyReader
2 implements MessageBodyReader<MyBean> {
3
4 @Override
5 public boolean isReadable(Class<?> type, Type genericType,
6 Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType) {
7 return type == MyBean.class;
8 }
9
10 @Override
11 public MyBean readFrom(Class<MyBean> type,
12 Type genericType,
13 Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType,
14 MultivaluedMap<String, String> httpHeaders,
15 InputStream entityStream)
16 throws IOException, WebApplicationException {
17
18 try {
19 JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(MyBean.class);
20 MyBean myBean = (MyBean) jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller()
21 .unmarshal(entityStream);
22 return myBean;
23 } catch (JAXBException jaxbException) {
24 throw new ProcessingException("Error deserializing a MyBean.",
25 jaxbException);

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26 }
27 }
28 }

It is obvious that the MessageBodyReader<T> interface is similar to MessageBodyWriter<T>.

In the next couple of sections we will explore it's API methods.

8.2.2.1. MessageBodyReader.isReadable
It defines the method isReadable() which has a very simliar meaning as method isWriteable()
in MessageBodyWriter<T>. The method returns true if it is able to de-serialize the given type. The
annotations parameter contains annotations that are attached to the entity parameter in the resource
method. In our POST resource method postMyBean the entity parameter myBean is not annotated,
therefore no annotation will be passed to the isReadable. The mediaType parameter contains the entity
media type. The media type, in our case, must be consumable by the POST resource method, which
is specified by placing a JAX-RS @Consumes [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/
ws/rs/Consumes.html] annotation to the method. The resource method postMyBean() is annotated
with @Consumes("application/xml"), therefore for purpose of de-serialization of entity for the
postMyBean() method, only requests with entities represented as "application/xml" media type
will match the method. However, this method might be executed for for entity types that are sub classes
or super classes of the declared generic type on the MessageBodyReader<T> will be also considered.
It is a responsibility of the isReadable method to decide whether it is able to de-serialize the entity and
type comparison is one of the basic decision steps.

Tip
In order to reduce number of isReadable executions, always define correctly the consumable
media type(s) with the @Consumes annotation on your custom MessageBodyReader<T>.

8.2.2.2. MessageBodyReader.readFrom
The readForm() method gets the parameters with the same meaning as in isReadable(). The
additional entityStream parameter provides a handle to the entity input stream from which the entity
bytes should be read and de-serialized into a Java entity which is then returned from the method. Our
MyBeanMessageBodyReader de-serializes the incoming XML data into an instance of MyBean using
JAXB.

Important
Do not close the entity input stream in your MessageBodyReader<T> implementation. The
stream will be automatically closed by Jersey runtime.

8.2.2.3. Testing a MessageBodyWriter<T>

Now let's send a test request using the JAX-RS Client API.

Example 8.8. Testing MyBeanMessageBodyReader

1 final MyBean myBean = new MyBean("posted MyBean", 11);
2 Response response = webTarget.path("resource").request("application/xml")
3 .post(Entity.entity(myBean, "application/xml"));
4
5 System.out.println(response.getStatus());
6 final String responseEntity = response.readEntity(String.class);

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7 System.out.println(responseEntity);
8

The console output is:

Example 8.9. Result of testing MyBeanMessageBodyReader

200
posted MyBean

8.2.2.4. Using Entity Providers with JAX-RS Client API

Both, MessageBodyReader<T> and MessageBodyWriter<T> can be registered in a
configuration of JAX-RS Client API components typically without any need to change their code. The
example Example 8.10, “MessageBodyReader registered on a JAX-RS client” is a variation on the
Example 8.5, “Client code testing MyBeanMessageBodyWriter” listed in one of the previous sections.

Example 8.10. MessageBodyReader registered on a JAX-RS client

1 Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
2 .register(MyBeanMessageBodyReader.class).build();
3
4 Response response = client.target("http://example/comm/resource")
5 .request(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML).get();
6 System.out.println(response.getStatus());
7 MyBean myBean = response.readEntity(MyBean.class);
8 System.out.println(myBean);

The code above registers MyBeanMessageBodyReader to the Client [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Client.html] configuration using a ClientBuilder [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/ClientBuilder.html] which means that the
provider will be used for any WebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
client/WebTarget.html] produced by the client instance.

Note
You could also register the JAX-RS entity (and any other) providers to individual WebTarget
instances produced by the client.
Then, using the fluent chain of method invocations, a resource target pointing to our MyResource
is defined, a HTTP GET request is invoked. The response entity is then read as an instance of a
MyBean type by invoking the response.readEntity method, that internally locates the registered
MyBeanMessageBodyReader and uses it for entity de-serialization.

The console output for the example is:

Example 8.11. Result of client code execution

200
MyBean{anyString='Hello World!', anyNumber=42}

8.3. Entity Provider Selection

Usually there are many entity providers registered on the server or client side (be default there must
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array, JAXB beans, etc.). JAX-RS defines an algorithm for selecting the most suitable provider for entity
processing. This algorithm works with information such as entity Java type and on-the-wire media type
representation of entity, and searches for the most suitable entity provider from the list of available
providers based on the supported media type declared on each provider (defined by @Produces or
@Consumes on the provider class) as well as based on the generic type declaration of the available
providers. When a list of suitable candidate entity providers is selected and sorted based on the rules
defined in JAX-RS specification, a JAX-RS runtime then it invokes isReadable or isWriteable
method respectively on each provider in the list until a first provider is found that returns true. This
provider is then used to process the entity.

The following steps describe the algorithm for selecting a MessageBodyWriter<T> (extracted from
JAX-RS with little modifications). The steps refer to the previously discussed example application. The
MessageBodyWriter<T> is searched for purpose of deserialization of MyBean entity returned from
the method getMyBean. So, type is MyBean and media type "application/xml". Let's assume the
runtime contains also registered providers, namely:

A: @Produces("application/*") with generic type <Object>

B: @Produces("*/*") with generic type <MyBean>
C: @Produces("text/plain") with generic type <MyBean>
D: @Produces("application/xml") with generic type <Object>
MyBeanMessageBodyWriter: @Produces("application/xml") with generic type
<MyBean>

The algorithm executed by a JAX-RS runtime to select a proper MessageBodyWriter<T>

implementation is illustrated in Procedure 8.1, “MessageBodyWriter<T> Selection Algorithm”.

Procedure 8.1. MessageBodyWriter<T> Selection Algorithm

1. Obtain the object that will be mapped to the message entity body. For a return type of Response or
subclasses, the object is the value of the entity property, for other return types it is the returned object.

So in our case, for the resource method getMyBean the type will be MyBean.

2. Determine the media type of the response.

In our case. for resource method getMyBean annotated with @Produces("application/

xml"), the media type will be "application/xml".

3. Select the set of MessageBodyWriter providers that support the object and media type of the message
entity body.

In our case, for entity media type "application/xml" and type MyBean, the appropriate
MessageBodyWriter<T> will be the A, B, D and MyBeanMessageBodyWriter. The
provider C does not define the appropriate media type. A and B are fine as their type is more generic
and compatible with "application/xml".

4. Sort the selected MessageBodyWriter providers with a primary key of generic type where providers
whose generic type is the nearest superclass of the object class are sorted first and a secondary key of
media type. Additionally, JAX-RS specification mandates that custom, user registered providers have
to be sorted ahead of default providers provided by JAX-RS implementation. This is used as a tertiary
comparison key. User providers are places prior to Jersey internal providers in to the final ordered list.

The sorted providers will be: MyBeanMessageBodyWriter, B. D, A.

5. Iterate through the sorted MessageBodyWriter<T> providers and, utilizing the isWriteable
method of each until you find a MessageBodyWriter<T> that returns true.

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The first provider in the list - our MyBeanMessageBodyWriter returns true as it compares
types and the types matches. If it would return false, the next provider B would by check by
invoking its isWriteable method.

6. If step 5 locates a suitable MessageBodyWriter<T> then use its writeTo method to map the
object to the entity body.

MyBeanMessageBodyWriter.writeTo will be executed and it will serialize the entity.

• Otherwise, the server runtime MUST generate a generate an

InternalServerErrorException, a subclass of WebApplicationException
with its status set to 500, and no entity and the client runtime MUST generate a
ProcessingException.

We have successfully found a provider, thus no exception is generated.

Note
JAX-RS 2.0 is incompatible with JAX-RS 1.x in one step of the entity provider selection
algorithm. JAX-RS 1.x defines sorting keys priorities in the Step 4 in exactly opposite order.
So, in JAX-RS 1.x the keys are defined in the order: primary media type, secondary type
declaration distance where custom providers have always precedence to internal providers.
If you want to force Jersey to use the algorithm compatible with JAX-RS 1.x, setup
the property (to ResourceConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/server/ResourceConfig.html] or return from Application [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html] from its getProperties method):

jersey.config.workers.legacyOrdering=true

Documentation of this property can be found in the javadoc of MessageProperties [https://

jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/MessageProperties.html].

The algorithm for selection of MessageBodyReader<T> is similar, including the incompatibility

between JAX-RS 2.0 and JAX-RS 1.x and the property to workaround it. The algorithm is defined as
follows:

Procedure 8.2. MessageBodyReader<T> Selection Algorithm

1. Obtain the media type of the request. If the request does not contain a Content-Type header then
use application/octet-stream media type.

2. Identify the Java type of the parameter whose value will be mapped from the entity body. The Java
type on the server is the type of the entity parameter of the resource method. On the client it is the
Class passed to readFrom method.

3. Select the set of available MessageBodyReader<T> providers that support the media type of the
request.

4. Iterate through the selected MessageBodyReader<T> classes and, utilizing their isReadable
method, choose the first MessageBodyReader<T> provider that supports the desired combination
of Java type/media type/annotations parameters.

5. If Step 4 locates a suitable MessageBodyReader<T>, then use its readFrom method to map the
entity body to the desired Java type.

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• Otherwise, the server runtime MUST generate a NotSupportedException (HTTP

415 status code) and no entity and the client runtime MUST generate an instance of
ProcessingException.

8.4. Jersey MessageBodyWorkers API

In case you need to directly work with JAX-RS entity providers, for example to serialize an entity in
your resource method, filter or in a composite entity provider, you would need to perform quite a lot
of steps. You would need to choose the appropriate MessageBodyWriter<T> based on the type,
media type and other parameters. Then you would need to instantiate it, check it by isWriteable
method and basically perform all the steps that are normally performed by Jersey (see Procedure 8.2,
“MessageBodyReader<T> Selection Algorithm”).

To remove this burden from developers, Jersey exposes a proprietary public API that simplifies the
manipulation of entity providers. The API is defined by MessageBodyWorkers [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/MessageBodyWorkers.html] interface and Jersey
provides an implementation that can be injected using the @Context [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Context.html] injection annotation. The interface declares methods for
selection of most appropriate MessageBodyReader<T> and MessageBodyWriter<T> based on
the rules defined in JAX-RS spec, methods for writing and reading entity that ensure proper and timely
invocation of interceptors and other useful methods.

See the following example of usage of MessageBodyWorkers.

Example 8.12. Usage of MessageBodyWorkers interface

1 @Path("workers")
2 public static class WorkersResource {
3
4 @Context
5 private MessageBodyWorkers workers;
6
7 @GET
8 @Produces("application/xml")
9 public String getMyBeanAsString() {
10
11 final MyBean myBean = new MyBean("Hello World!", 42);
12
13 // buffer into which myBean will be serialized
14 ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
15
16 // get most appropriate MBW
17 final MessageBodyWriter<MyBean> messageBodyWriter =
18 workers.getMessageBodyWriter(MyBean.class, MyBean.class,
19 new Annotation[]{}, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_TYPE);
20
21 try {
22 // use the MBW to serialize myBean into baos
23 messageBodyWriter.writeTo(myBean,
24 MyBean.class, MyBean.class, new Annotation[] {},
25 MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_TYPE, new MultivaluedHashMap<String,
26 baos);
27 } catch (IOException e) {

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28 throw new RuntimeException(

29 "Error while serializing MyBean.", e);
30 }
31
32 final String stringXmlOutput = baos.toString();
33 // stringXmlOutput now contains XML representation:
34 // "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
35 // <myBean><anyString>Hello World!</anyString>
36 // <anyNumber>42</anyNumber></myBean>"
37
38 return stringXmlOutput;
39 }
40 }

In the example a resource injects MessageBodyWorkers and uses it for selection of the most
appropriate MessageBodyWriter<T>. Then the writer is utilized to serialize the entity into the buffer
as XML document. The String content of the buffer is then returned. This will cause that Jersey
will not use MyBeanMessageBodyWriter to serialize the entity as it is already in the String
type (MyBeanMessageBodyWriter does not support String). Instead, a simple String-based
MessageBodyWriter<T> will be chosen and it will only serialize the String with XML to the output
entity stream by writing out the bytes of the String.

Of course, the code in the example does not bring any benefit as the entity could have been serialized by
MyBeanMessageBodyWriter by Jersey as in previous examples; the purpose of the example was to
show how to use MessageBodyWorkers in a resource method.

8.5. Default Jersey Entity Providers

Jersey internally contains entity providers for these types with combination of media types (in brackets):

byte[] (*/*)
String [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/String.html] (*/*)
InputStream [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/InputStream.html] (*/*)
Reader [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/Reader.html] (*/*)
File [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html] (*/*)
DataSource [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/activation/DataSource.html] (*/*)
Source [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/transform/Source.html] (text/xml,
application/xml and media types of the form application/*+xml)
JAXBElement [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/JAXBElement.html] (text/
xml, application/xml and media types of the form application/*+xml)
MultivaluedMap<K,V> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
MultivaluedMap.html] (application/x-www-form-urlencoded)
Form [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Form.html] (application/
x-www-form-urlencoded)
StreamingOutput [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
StreamingOutput.html] ((*/*)) - this class can be used as an lightweight MessageBodyWriter<T>
that can be returned from a resource method
Boolean [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Boolean.html], Character [http://
docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Character.html] and Number [http://docs.oracle.com/
javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Number.html] (text/plain) - corresponding primitive types supported via
boxing/unboxing conversion

For other media type supported in jersey please see the Chapter 9, Support for Common Media Type
Representations which describes additional Jersey entity provider extensions for serialization to JSON,

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XML, serialization of collections, Multi Part [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/

jersey/media/multipart/package-summary.html] and others.

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9.1. JSON
Jersey JSON support comes as a set of extension modules where each of these modules contains
an implementation of a Feature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
Feature.html] that needs to be registered into your Configurable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Configurable.html] instance (client/server). There are multiple frameworks that
provide support for JSON processing and/or JSON-to-Java binding. The modules listed below provide
support for JSON representations by integrating the individual JSON frameworks into Jersey. At present,
Jersey integrates with the following modules to provide JSON support:

• MOXy - JSON binding support via MOXy is a default and preferred way of supporting JSON binding
in your Jersey applications since Jersey 2.0. When JSON MOXy module is on the class-path, Jersey
will automatically discover the module and seamlessly enable JSON binding support via MOXy in your
applications. (See Section 4.3, “Auto-Discoverable Features”.)

• Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P)

• Jackson

• Jettison

9.1.1. Approaches to JSON Support

Each of the aforementioned extension modules uses one or more of the three basic approaches available
when working with JSON representations:

• POJO based JSON binding support

• JAXB based JSON binding support

• Low-level JSON parsing & processing support

The first method is pretty generic and allows you to map any Java Object to JSON and vice versa. The
other two approaches limit you in Java types your resource methods could produce and/or consume. JAXB
based approach is useful if you plan to utilize certain JAXB features and support both XML and JSON
representations. The last, low-level, approach gives you the best fine-grained control over the out-coming
JSON data format.

9.1.1.1. POJO support

POJO support represents the easiest way to convert your Java Objects to JSON and back.

Media modules that support this approach are MOXy and Jackson

9.1.1.2. JAXB based JSON support

Taking this approach will save you a lot of time, if you want to easily produce/consume both JSON and
XML data format. With JAXB beans you will be able to use the same Java model to generate JSON as well

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as XML representations. Another advantage is simplicity of working with such a model and availability
of the API in Java SE Platform. JAXB leverages annotated POJOs and these could be handled as simple
Java beans.

A disadvantage of JAXB based approach could be if you need to work with a very specific JSON format.
Then it might be difficult to find a proper way to get such a format produced and consumed. This is a reason
why a lot of configuration options are provided, so that you can control how JAXB beans get serialized
and de-serialized. The extra configuration options however requires you to learn more details about the
framework you are using.

Following is a very simple example of how a JAXB bean could look like.

Example 9.1. Simple JAXB bean implementation

1 @XmlRootElement
2 public class MyJaxbBean {
3 public String name;
4 public int age;
5
6 public MyJaxbBean() {} // JAXB needs this
7
8 public MyJaxbBean(String name, int age) {
9 this.name = name;
10 this.age = age;
11 }
12 }

Using the above JAXB bean for producing JSON data format from you resource method, is then as simple
as:

Example 9.2. JAXB bean used to generate JSON representation

1 @GET
2 @Produces("application/json")
3 public MyJaxbBean getMyBean() {
4 return new MyJaxbBean("Agamemnon", 32);
5 }

Notice, that JSON specific mime type is specified in @Produces annotation, and the method returns an
instance of MyJaxbBean, which JAXB is able to process. Resulting JSON in this case would look like:

{"name":"Agamemnon", "age":"32"}

A proper use of JAXB annotations itself enables you to control output JSON format to certain extent.
Specifically, renaming and omitting items is easy to do directly just by using JAXB annotations. For
example, the following example depicts changes in the above mentioned MyJaxbBean that will result in
{"king":"Agamemnon"} JSON output.

Example 9.3. Tweaking JSON format using JAXB

1 @XmlRootElement
2 public class MyJaxbBean {
3
4 @XmlElement(name="king")
5 public String name;

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6
7 @XmlTransient
8 public int age;
9
10 // several lines removed
11 }

Media modules that support this approach are MOXy, Jackson, Jettison

9.1.1.3. Low-level based JSON support

JSON Processing API is a new standard API for parsing and processing JSON structures in similar way
to what SAX and StAX parsers provide for XML. The API is part of Java EE 7 and later. Another
such JSON parsing/processing API is provided by Jettison framework. Both APIs provide a low-level
access to producing and consuming JSON data structures. By adopting this low-level approach you would
be working with JsonObject (or JSONObject respectively) and/or JsonArray (or JSONArray
respectively) classes when processing your JSON data representations.

The biggest advantage of these low-level APIs is that you will gain full control over the JSON format
produced and consumed. You will also be able to produce and consume very large JSON structures using
streaming JSON parser/generator APIs. On the other hand, dealing with your data model objects will
probably be a lot more complex, compared to the POJO or JAXB based binding approach. Differences
are depicted at the following code snippets.

Let's start with JAXB-based approach.

Example 9.4. JAXB bean creation

1 MyJaxbBean myBean = new MyJaxbBean("Agamemnon", 32);

Above you construct a simple JAXB bean, which could be written in JSON as
{"name":"Agamemnon", "age":32}

Now to build an equivalent JsonObject/JSONObject (in terms of resulting JSON expression), you
would need several more lines of code. The following example illustrates how to construct the same JSON
data using the standard Java EE 7 JSON-Processing API.

Example 9.5. Constructing a JsonObject (JSON-Processing)

1 JsonObject myObject = Json.createObjectBuilder()
2 .add("name", "Agamemnon")
3 .add("age", 32)
4 .build();

And at last, here's how the same work can be done with Jettison API.

Example 9.6. Constructing a JSONObject (Jettison)

1 JSONObject myObject = new JSONObject();
2 try {
3 myObject.put("name", "Agamemnon");
4 myObject.put("age", 32);
5 } catch (JSONException ex) {
6 LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, "Error ...", ex);
7 }

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Media modules that support the low-level JSON parsing and generating approach are Java API for JSON
Processing (JSON-P) and Jettison. Unless you have a strong reason for using the non-standard Jettison
API, we recommend you to use the new standard Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P) API instead.

9.1.2. MOXy
9.1.2.1. Dependency
To use MOXy as your JSON provider you need to add jersey-media-moxy module to your pom.xml
file:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-media-moxy</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

If you're not using Maven make sure to have all needed dependencies (see jersey-media-moxy
[https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-media-moxy/dependencies.html]) on the
classpath.

9.1.2.2. Configure and register

As stated in the Section 4.3, “Auto-Discoverable Features” as well as earlier in this chapter, MOXy
media module is one of the modules where you don't need to explicitly register it's Features
(MoxyJsonFeature) in your client/server Configurable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Configurable.html] as this feature is automatically discovered and registered
when you add jersey-media-moxy module to your class-path.

The auto-discoverable jersey-media-moxy module defines a few properties that

can be used to control the automatic registration of MoxyJsonFeature (besides
the generic CommonProperties.FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
CommonProperties.html#FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE] an the its client/server
variants):

• CommonProperties.MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/CommonProperties.html#MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE]

• ServerProperties.MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/server/ServerProperties.html#MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE]

• ClientProperties.MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/client/ClientProperties.html#MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE]

Note
A manual registration of any other Jersey JSON provider feature (except for Java API
for JSON Processing (JSON-P)) disables the automated enabling and configuration of
MoxyJsonFeature.

To configure MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/

ext/MessageBodyReader.html]s / MessageBodyWriter<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/MessageBodyWriter.html]s provided by MOXy you can simply create an
instance of MoxyJsonConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/moxy/

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json/MoxyJsonConfig.html] and set values of needed properties. For most common properties you can use
a particular method to set the value of the property or you can use more generic methods to set the property:

• MoxyJsonConfig#property(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/

jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/moxy/json/MoxyJsonConfig.html#property(java.lang.String,
java.lang.Object)] - sets a property value for both Marshaller and Unmarshaller.

• MoxyJsonConfig#marshallerProperty(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object) [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/moxy/json/
MoxyJsonConfig.html#marshallerProperty(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object)] - sets a property value
for Marshaller.

• MoxyJsonConfig#unmarshallerProperty(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object) [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/moxy/json/
MoxyJsonConfig.html#unmarshallerProperty(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object)] - sets a property
value for Unmarshaller.

Example 9.7. MoxyJsonConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/

glassfish/jersey/moxy/json/MoxyJsonConfig.html] - Setting properties.
final Map<String, String> namespacePrefixMapper = new HashMap<String, String>();
namespacePrefixMapper.put("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", "xsi");

final MoxyJsonConfig configuration = new MoxyJsonConfig()

.setNamespacePrefixMapper(namespacePrefixMapper)
.setNamespaceSeparator(':');

In order to make MoxyJsonConfig visible for MOXy you need to create and register
ContextResolver<T> in your client/server code.

Example 9.8. Creating ContextResolver<MoxyJsonConfig>

final Map<String, String> namespacePrefixMapper = new HashMap<String, String>();
namespacePrefixMapper.put("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", "xsi");

final MoxyJsonConfig moxyJsonConfig = MoxyJsonConfig()

.setNamespacePrefixMapper(namespacePrefixMapper)
.setNamespaceSeparator(':');

final ContextResolver<MoxyJsonConfig> jsonConfigResolver = moxyJsonConfig.resolver(

Another way to pass configuration properties to the underlying MOXyJsonProvider is to set

them directly into your Configurable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
Configurable.html] instance (see an example below). These are overwritten by properties set
into the MoxyJsonConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/moxy/json/
MoxyJsonConfig.html].

Example 9.9. Setting properties for MOXy providers into Configurable [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Configurable.html]
new ResourceConfig()
.property(MarshallerProperties.JSON_NAMESPACE_SEPARATOR
// further configuration

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There are some properties for which Jersey sets the default value
when MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/
MessageBodyReader.html] / MessageBodyWriter<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/ext/MessageBodyWriter.html] from MOXy is used and they are:

Table 9.1. Default property values for MOXy MessageBodyReader<T> [https://

jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/
MessageBodyReader.html] / MessageBodyWriter<T> [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/MessageBodyWriter.html]
javax.xml.bind.Marshaller#JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT
false
org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextProperties#JSON_INCLUDE_ROOT
false
org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.MarshallerProperties#JSON_MARSHAL_EMPTY_COLLECTIONS
true
org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextProperties#JSON_NAMESPACE_SEPARATOR
org.eclipse.persistence.oxm.XMLConstants#DOT

Example 9.10. Building client with MOXy JSON feature enabled.

final Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
// The line below that registers MOXy feature can be
// omitted if FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE is
// not disabled.
.register(MoxyJsonFeature.class)
.register(jsonConfigResolver)
.build();

Example 9.11. Creating JAX-RS application with MOXy JSON feature enabled.
// Create JAX-RS application.
final Application application = new ResourceConfig()
.packages("org.glassfish.jersey.examples.jsonmoxy")
// The line below that registers MOXy feature can be
// omitted if FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE is
// not disabled.
.register(MoxyJsonFeature.class)
.register(jsonConfigResolver);

9.1.2.3. Examples
Jersey provides a JSON MOXy example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/json-
moxy] on how to use MOXy to consume/produce JSON.

9.1.3. Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P)

9.1.3.1. Dependency
To use JSON-P as your JSON provider you need to add jersey-media-json-processing module
to your pom.xml file:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-media-json-processing</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>

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</dependency>

If you're not using Maven make sure to have all needed dependencies (see jersey-media-
json-processing [https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-media-json-processing/
dependencies.html]) on the class-path.

9.1.3.2. Configure and register

As stated in Section 4.3, “Auto-Discoverable Features” JSON-Processing media module is one of the
modules where you don't need to explicitly register it's Features (JsonProcessingFeature)
in your client/server Configurable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
Configurable.html] as this feature is automatically discovered and registered when you add jersey-
media-json-processing module to your classpath.

As for the other modules, jersey-media-json-processing has also

few properties that can affect the registration of JsonProcessingFeature
(besides CommonProperties.FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
CommonProperties.html#FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE] and the like):

• CommonProperties.JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
CommonProperties.html#JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE]

• ServerProperties.JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE]

• ClientProperties.JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE]

To configure MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/

MessageBodyReader.html]s / MessageBodyWriter<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/ext/MessageBodyWriter.html]s provided by JSON-P you can simply add values for
supported properties into the Configuration [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
core/Configuration.html] instance (client/server). Currently supported are these properties:

• JsonGenerator.PRETTY_PRINTING
("javax.json.stream.JsonGenerator.prettyPrinting")

Example 9.12. Building client with JSON-Processing JSON feature enabled.

ClientBuilder.newClient(new ClientConfig()
// The line below that registers JSON-Processing feature can be
// omitted if FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE is not disabled.
.register(JsonProcessingFeature.class)
.property(JsonGenerator.PRETTY_PRINTING, true)
);

Example 9.13. Creating JAX-RS application with JSON-Processing JSON feature

enabled.
// Create JAX-RS application.
final Application application = new ResourceConfig()
// The line below that registers JSON-Processing feature can be

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// omitted if FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE is not disabled.

.register(JsonProcessingFeature.class)
.packages("org.glassfish.jersey.examples.jsonp")
.property(JsonGenerator.PRETTY_PRINTING, true);

9.1.3.3. Examples
Jersey provides a JSON Processing example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/json-
processing-webapp] on how to use JSON-Processing to consume/produce JSON.

9.1.4. Jackson (1.x and 2.x)

9.1.4.1. Dependency
To use Jackson 2.x as your JSON provider you need to add jersey-media-json-jackson module
to your pom.xml file:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

To use Jackson 1.x it'll look like:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson1</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

If you're not using Maven make sure to have all needed dependencies (see jersey-
media-json-jackson [https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-media-json-jackson/
dependencies.html] or jersey-media-json-jackson1 [https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/
project/jersey-media-json-jackson1/dependencies.html]) on the classpath.

9.1.4.2. Configure and register

Note
Note that there is a difference in namespaces between Jackson 1.x
(org.codehaus.jackson) and Jackson 2.x (com.fasterxml.jackson).

Jackson JSON processor could be controlled via providing a custom Jackson

2 ObjectMapper [http://fasterxml.github.io/jackson-databind/javadoc/2.3.0/com/fasterxml/jackson/
databind/ObjectMapper.html] (or ObjectMapper [http://jackson.codehaus.org/1.9.9/javadoc/org/
codehaus/jackson/map/ObjectMapper.html] for Jackson 1) instance. This could be handy if you need to
redefine the default Jackson behaviour and to fine-tune how your JSON data structures look like. Detailed
description of all Jackson features is out of scope of this guide. The example below gives you a hint on how
to wire your ObjectMapper (ObjectMapper [http://jackson.codehaus.org/1.9.9/javadoc/org/codehaus/
jackson/map/ObjectMapper.html]) instance into your Jersey application.

In order to use Jackson as your JSON (JAXB/POJO) provider you need to register JacksonFeature [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/jackson/JacksonFeature.html] (Jackson1Feature
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/jackson1/Jackson1Feature.html]) and a

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ContextResolver<T> for ObjectMapper, if needed, in your Configurable [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Configurable.html] (client/server).

Example 9.14. ContextResolver<ObjectMapper>

1 @Provider
2 public class MyObjectMapperProvider implements ContextResolver<ObjectMapper> {
3
4 final ObjectMapper defaultObjectMapper;
5
6 public MyObjectMapperProvider() {
7 defaultObjectMapper = createDefaultMapper();
8 }
9
10 @Override
11 public ObjectMapper getContext(Class<?> type) {
12 return defaultObjectMapper;
13 }
14 }
15
16 private static ObjectMapper createDefaultMapper() {
17 final ObjectMapper result = new ObjectMapper();
18 result.configure(Feature.INDENT_OUTPUT, true);
19
20 return result;
21 }
22
23 // ...
24 }

To view the complete example source code, see MyObjectMapperProvider [https://github.com/jersey/

jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/json-jackson/src/main/java/org/glassfish/jersey/examples/jackson/
MyObjectMapperProvider.java] class from the JSON-Jackson [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/
tree/2.25.1/examples/json-jackson] example.

Example 9.15. Building client with Jackson JSON feature enabled.

1 final Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
2 .register(MyObjectMapperProvider.class) // No need to register this pr
3 .register(JacksonFeature.class)
4 .build();

Example 9.16. Creating JAX-RS application with Jackson JSON feature enabled.
1 // Create JAX-RS application.
2 final Application application = new ResourceConfig()
3 .packages("org.glassfish.jersey.examples.jackson")
4 .register(MyObjectMapperProvider.class) // No need to register this pr
5 .register(JacksonFeature.class);

9.1.4.3. Examples
Jersey provides JSON Jackson (2.x) example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/json-
jackson] and JSON Jackson (1.x) example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/json-
jackson1] showing how to use Jackson to consume/produce JSON.

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9.1.5. Jettison
JAXB approach for (de)serializing JSON in Jettison module provides, in addition to using pure JAXB,
configuration options that could be set on an JettisonConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/jettison/JettisonConfig.html] instance. The instance could be then further
used to create a JettisonJaxbContext [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
jettison/JettisonJaxbContext.html], which serves as a main configuration point in this area. To
pass your specialized JettisonJaxbContext to Jersey, you will finally need to implement
a JAXBContext ContextResolver<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/
ContextResolver.html] (see below).

9.1.5.1. Dependency
To use Jettison as your JSON provider you need to add jersey-media-json-jettison module
to your pom.xml file:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-media-json-jettison</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

If you're not using Maven make sure to have all needed dependencies (see jersey-
media-json-jettison [https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-media-json-jettison/
dependencies.html]) on the classpath.

9.1.5.2. JSON Notations

JettisonConfig allows you to use two JSON notations. Each of these notations serializes JSON in a
different way. Following is a list of supported notations:

• JETTISON_MAPPED (default notation)

• BADGERFISH

You might want to use one of these notations, when working with more complex XML documents. Namely
when you deal with multiple XML namespaces in your JAXB beans.

Individual notations and their further configuration options are described below. Rather then explaining
rules for mapping XML constructs into JSON, the notations will be described using a simple example.
Following are JAXB beans, which will be used.

Example 9.17. JAXB beans for JSON supported notations description, simple
address bean
1 @XmlRootElement
2 public class Address {
3 public String street;
4 public String town;
5
6 public Address(){}
7
8 public Address(String street, String town) {

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9 this.street = street;
10 this.town = town;
11 }
12 }

Example 9.18. JAXB beans for JSON supported notations description, contact bean
1 @XmlRootElement
2 public class Contact {
3
4 public int id;
5 public String name;
6 public List<Address> addresses;
7
8 public Contact() {};
9
10 public Contact(int id, String name, List<Address> addresses) {
11 this.name = name;
12 this.id = id;
13 this.addresses =
14 (addresses != null) ? new LinkedList<Address>(addresses) : null;
15 }
16 }

Following text will be mainly working with a contact bean initialized with:

Example 9.19. JAXB beans for JSON supported notations description, initialization
1 Address[] addresses = {new Address("Long Street 1", "Short Village")};
2 Contact contact = new Contact(2, "Bob", Arrays.asList(addresses));

I.e. contact bean with id=2, name="Bob" containing a single address (street="Long Street 1",
town="Short Village").

All below described configuration options are documented also in api-docs at JettisonConfig [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/jettison/JettisonConfig.html].

9.1.5.2.1. Jettison mapped notation

If you need to deal with various XML namespaces, you will find Jettison mapped notation pretty useful.
Lets define a particular namespace for id item:

1 ...
2 @XmlElement(namespace="http://example.com")
3 public int id;
4 ...

Then you simply configure a mapping from XML namespace into JSON prefix as follows:

Example 9.20. XML namespace to JSON mapping configuration for Jettison based
mapped notation
1 Map<String,String> ns2json = new HashMap<String, String>();
2 ns2json.put("http://example.com", "example");

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3 context = new JettisonJaxbContext(

4 JettisonConfig.mappedJettison().xml2JsonNs(ns2json).build(),
5 types);

Resulting JSON will look like in the example below.

Example 9.21. JSON expression with XML namespaces mapped into JSON
1 {
2 "contact":{
3 "example.id":2,
4 "name":"Bob",
5 "addresses":{
6 "street":"Long Street 1",
7 "town":"Short Village"
8 }
9 }
10 }

Please note, that id item became example.id based on the XML namespace mapping. If you have
more XML namespaces in your XML, you will need to configure appropriate mapping for all of them.

Another configurable option introduced in Jersey version 2.2 is related to serialization of JSON arrays
with Jettison's mapped notation. When serializing elements representing single item lists/arrays, you might
want to utilise the following Jersey configuration method to explicitly name which elements to treat as
arrays no matter what the actual content is.

Example 9.22. JSON Array configuration for Jettison based mapped notation
1 context = new JettisonJaxbContext(
2 JettisonConfig.mappedJettison().serializeAsArray("name").build(),
3 types);

Resulting JSON will look like in the example below, unimportant lines removed for sanity.

Example 9.23. JSON expression with JSON arrays explicitly configured via Jersey
1 {
2 "contact":{
3 ...
4 "name":["Bob"],
5 ...
6 }
7 }

9.1.5.2.2. Badgerfish notation

From JSON and JavaScript perspective, this notation is definitely the worst readable one. You will
probably not want to use it, unless you need to make sure your JAXB beans could be flawlessly written
and read back to and from JSON, without bothering with any formatting configuration, namespaces, etc.

JettisonConfig instance using badgerfish notation could be built with

JettisonConfig.badgerFish().build()

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and the JSON output JSON will be as follows.

Example 9.24. JSON expression produced using badgerfish notation

1 {
2 "contact":{
3 "id":{
4 "$":"2"
5 },
6 "name":{
7 "$":"Bob"
8 },
9 "addresses":{
10 "street":{
11 "$":"Long Street 1"
12 },
13 "town":{
14 "$":"Short Village"
15 }
16 }
17 }
18 }

9.1.5.3. Configure and register

In order to use Jettison as your JSON (JAXB/POJO) provider you need to register JettisonFeature
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/jettison/JettisonFeature.html] and a
ContextResolver<T> for JAXBContext (if needed) in your Configurable [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Configurable.html] (client/server).

Example 9.25. ContextResolver<ObjectMapper>

@Provider
public class JaxbContextResolver implements ContextResolver<JAXBContext> {

private final JAXBContext context;

private final Set<Class<?>> types;
private final Class<?>[] cTypes = {Flights.class, FlightType.class, AircraftTyp

public JaxbContextResolver() throws Exception {

this.types = new HashSet<Class<?>>(Arrays.asList(cTypes));
this.context = new JettisonJaxbContext(JettisonConfig.DEFAULT, cTypes);
}

@Override
public JAXBContext getContext(Class<?> objectType) {
return (types.contains(objectType)) ? context : null;
}
}

Example 9.26. Building client with Jettison JSON feature enabled.

final Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
.register(JaxbContextResolver.class) // No need to register this provider

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.register(JettisonFeature.class)
.build();

Example 9.27. Creating JAX-RS application with Jettison JSON feature enabled.
// Create JAX-RS application.
final Application application = new ResourceConfig()
.packages("org.glassfish.jersey.examples.jettison")
.register(JaxbContextResolver.class) // No need to register this provider
.register(JettisonFeature.class);

9.1.5.4. Examples
Jersey provides an JSON Jettison example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/json-
jettison] on how to use Jettison to consume/produce JSON.

9.1.6. @JSONP - JSON with Padding Support

Jersey provides out-of-the-box support for JSONP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP] - JSON with
padding. The following conditions has to be met to take advantage of this capability:

• Resource method, which should return wrapped JSON, needs to be annotated with @JSONP [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/JSONP.html] annotation.

• MessageBodyWriter<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/
MessageBodyWriter.html] for application/json media type, which also accepts the return type
of the resource method, needs to be registered (see JSON section of this chapter).

• User's request has to contain Accept header with one of the JavaScript media types defined (see below).

Acceptable media types compatible with @JSONP are: application/javascript,

application/x-javascript, application/ecmascript, text/javascript, text/
x-javascript, text/ecmascript, text/jscript.

Example 9.28. Simplest case of using @JSONP

@GET
@JSONP
@Produces({"application/json", "application/javascript"})
public JaxbBean getSimpleJSONP() {
return new JaxbBean("jsonp");
}

Assume that we have registered a JSON providers and that the JaxbBean looks like:

Example 9.29. JaxbBean for @JSONP example

@XmlRootElement
public class JaxbBean {

private String value;

public JaxbBean() {}

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public JaxbBean(final String value) {

this.value = value;
}

public String getValue() {

return value;
}

public void setValue(final String value) {

this.value = value;
}
}

When you send a GET request with Accept header set to application/javascript you'll get a
result entity that look like:

callback({
"value" : "jsonp",
})

There are, of course, ways to configure wrapping method of the returned entity which defaults to
callback as you can see in the previous example. @JSONP has two parameters that can be configured:
callback and queryParam. callback stands for the name of the JavaScript callback function
defined by the application. The second parameter, queryParam, defines the name of the query parameter
holding the name of the callback function to be used (if present in the request). Value of queryParam
defaults to __callback so even if you do not set the name of the query parameter yourself, client can
always affect the result name of the wrapping JavaScript callback method.

Note
queryParam value (if set) always takes precedence over callback value.

Lets modify our example a little bit:

Example 9.30. Example of @JSONP with configured parameters.

@GET
@Produces({"application/json", "application/javascript"})
@JSONP(callback = "eval", queryParam = "jsonpCallback")
public JaxbBean getSimpleJSONP() {
return new JaxbBean("jsonp");
}

And make two requests:

curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/jsonp

will return

eval({
"value" : "jsonp",
})

and the

curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/jsonp?jsonpCallback=alert

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will return

alert({
"value" : "jsonp",
})

Example. You can take a look at a provided JSON with Padding example [https://github.com/jersey/
jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/json-with-padding].

9.2. XML
As you probably already know, Jersey uses MessageBodyWriter<T>s and
MessageBodyReader<T>s to parse incoming requests and create outgoing responses. Every user can
create its own representation but... this is not recommended way how to do things. XML is proven standard
for interchanging information, especially in web services. Jerseys supports low level data types used for
direct manipulation and JAXB XML entities.

9.2.1. Low level XML support

Jersey currently support several low level data types: StreamSource [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/
docs/api/javax/xml/transform/stream/StreamSource.html], SAXSource [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/
docs/api/javax/xml/transform/sax/SAXSource.html], DOMSource [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/
api/javax/xml/transform/dom/DOMSource.html] and Document [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/
api/org/w3c/dom/Document.html]. You can use these types as the return type or as a method (resource)
parameter. Lets say we want to test this feature and we have helloworld example [https://github.com/jersey/
jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/helloworld] as a starting point. All we need to do is add methods (resources)
which consumes and produces XML and types mentioned above will be used.

Example 9.31. Low level XML test - methods added to

HelloWorldResource.java
1 @POST
2 @Path("StreamSource")
3 public StreamSource getStreamSource(StreamSource streamSource) {
4 return streamSource;
5 }
6
7 @POST
8 @Path("SAXSource")
9 public SAXSource getSAXSource(SAXSource saxSource) {
10 return saxSource;
11 }
12
13 @POST
14 @Path("DOMSource")
15 public DOMSource getDOMSource(DOMSource domSource) {
16 return domSource;
17 }
18
19 @POST
20 @Path("Document")
21 public Document getDocument(Document document) {
22 return document;

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23 }

Both MessageBodyWriter<T> and MessageBodyReader<T> are used in this case, all we need
is a POST request with some XML document as a request entity. To keep this as simple as possible only
root element with no content will be sent: "<test />". You can create JAX-RS client to do that or use
some other tool, for example curl:

curl -v http://localhost:8080/base/helloworld/StreamSource -d "<test/>"

You should get exactly the same XML from our service as is present in the request; in this case, XML
headers are added to response but content stays. Feel free to iterate through all resources.

9.2.2. Getting started with JAXB

Good start for people which already have some experience with JAXB annotations is JAXB example
[https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/jaxb]. You can see various use-cases there. This
text is mainly meant for those who don't have prior experience with JAXB. Don't expect that all possible
annotations and their combinations will be covered in this chapter, JAXB (JSR 222 implementation) [http://
jaxb.java.net] is pretty complex and comprehensive. But if you just want to know how you can interchange
XML messages with your REST service, you are looking at the right chapter.

Lets start with simple example. Lets say we have class Planet and service which produces "Planets".

Example 9.32. Planet class

1 @XmlRootElement
2 public class Planet {
3 public int id;
4 public String name;
5 public double radius;
6 }

Example 9.33. Resource class

1 @Path("planet")
2 public class Resource {
3
4 @GET
5 @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
6 public Planet getPlanet() {
7 final Planet planet = new Planet();
8
9 planet.id = 1;
10 planet.name = "Earth";
11 planet.radius = 1.0;
12
13 return planet;
14 }
15 }

You can see there is some extra annotation declared on Planet class, particularly @XmlRootElement
[http://jaxb.java.net/nonav/2.2.7/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlRootElement.html]. This is an
JAXB annotation which maps java classes to XML elements. We don't need to specify
anything else, because Planet is very simple class and all fields are public. In this case,

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XML element name will be derived from the class name or you can set the name property:
@XmlRootElement(name="yourName").

Our resource class will respond to GET /planet with

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<planet>
<id>1</id>
<name>Earth</name>
<radius>1.0</radius>
</planet>

which might be exactly what we want... or not. Or we might not really care, because we can use JAX-RS
client for making requests to this resource and this is easy as:

Planet planet = webTarget.path("planet").request(MediaType.APPL

There is pre-created WebTarget object which points to our applications context root and we simply add
path (in our case its planet), accept header (not mandatory, but service could provide different content
based on this header; for example text/html can be served for web browsers) and at the end we specify
that we are expecting Planet class via GET request.

There may be need for not just producing XML, we might want to consume it as well.

Example 9.34. Method for consuming Planet

1 @POST
2 @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
3 public void setPlanet(Planet planet) {
4 System.out.println("setPlanet " + planet);
5 }

After valid request is made, service will print out string representation of Planet, which can look like
Planet{id=2, name='Mars', radius=1.51}. With JAX-RS client you can do:

webTarget.path("planet").post(planet);

If there is a need for some other (non default) XML representation, other JAXB annotations would need
to be used. This process is usually simplified by generating java source from XML Schema which is done
by xjc which is XML to java compiler and it is part of JAXB.

9.2.3. POJOs
Sometimes you can't / don't want to add JAXB annotations to source code and you still want to have
resources consuming and producing XML representation of your classes. In this case, JAXBElement
[http://jaxb.java.net/nonav/2.2.7/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/JAXBElement.html] class should help you.
Let's redo planet resource but this time we won't have an @XmlRootElement [http://jaxb.java.net/
nonav/2.2.7/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlRootElement.html] annotation on Planet class.

Example 9.35. Resource class - JAXBElement

1 @Path("planet")

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2 public class Resource {

3
4 @GET
5 @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
6 public JAXBElement<Planet> getPlanet() {
7 Planet planet = new Planet();
8
9 planet.id = 1;
10 planet.name = "Earth";
11 planet.radius = 1.0;
12
13 return new JAXBElement<Planet>(new QName("planet"), Planet.class, plane
14 }
15
16 @POST
17 @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
18 public void setPlanet(JAXBElement<Planet> planet) {
19 System.out.println("setPlanet " + planet.getValue());
20 }
21 }

As you can see, everything is little more complicated with JAXBElement. This is because now you need
to explicitly set element name for Planet class XML representation. Client side is even more complicated
than server side because you can't do JAXBElement<Planet> so JAX-RS client API provides way
how to workaround it by declaring subclass of GenericType<T>.

Example 9.36. Client side - JAXBElement

1 // GET
2 GenericType<JAXBElement<Planet>> planetType = new GenericType<JAXBElement<Plane
3
4 Planet planet = (Planet) webTarget.path("planet").request(MediaType.APPLICATION
5 System.out.println("### " + planet);
6
7 // POST
8 planet = new Planet();
9
10 // ...
11
12 webTarget.path("planet").post(new JAXBElement<Planet>(new QName("planet"), Plan

9.2.4. Using custom JAXBContext

In some scenarios you can take advantage of using custom JAXBContext [http://jaxb.java.net/nonav/2.2.7/
docs/api/javax/xml/bind/JAXBContext.html]. Creating JAXBContext is an expensive operation and if
you already have one created, same instance can be used by Jersey. Other possible use-case for this is
when you need to set some specific things to JAXBContext, for example to set a different class loader.

Example 9.37. PlanetJAXBContextProvider

1 @Provider
2 public class PlanetJAXBContextProvider implements ContextResolver<JAXBContext>
3 private JAXBContext context = null;
4

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5 public JAXBContext getContext(Class<?> type) {

6 if (type != Planet.class) {
7 return null; // we don't support nothing else than Planet
8 }
9
10 if (context == null) {
11 try {
12 context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Planet.class);
13 } catch (JAXBException e) {
14 // log warning/error; null will be returned which indicates tha
15 // provider won't/can't be used.
16 }
17 }
18
19 return context;
20 }
21 }

Sample above shows simple JAXBContext creation, all you need to do is put this @Provider annotated
class somewhere where Jersey can find it. Users sometimes have problems with using provider classes on
client side, so just to reminder - you have to declare them in the client config (client does not do anything
like package scanning done by server).

Example 9.38. Using Provider with JAX-RS client

1
2 ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig();
3 config.register(PlanetJAXBContextProvider.class);
4
5 Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient(config);
6

9.2.5. MOXy
If you want to use MOXy [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/moxy.php] as your JAXB implementation
instead of JAXB RI you have two options. You can either use the standard JAXB mechanisms to
define the JAXBContextFactory from which a JAXBContext instance would be obtained (for
more on this topic, read JavaDoc on JAXBContext [http://jaxb.java.net/nonav/2.2.7/docs/api/javax/xml/
bind/JAXBContext.html]) or you can add jersey-media-moxy module to your project and register/
configure MoxyXmlFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/moxy/xml/
MoxyXmlFeature.html] class/instance in the Configurable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Configurable.html].

Example 9.39. Add jersey-media-moxy dependency.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-media-moxy</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

Example 9.40. Register the MoxyXmlFeature class.

1 final ResourceConfig config = new ResourceConfig()

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2 .packages("org.glassfish.jersey.examples.xmlmoxy")
3 .register(MoxyXmlFeature.class);

Example 9.41. Configure and register an MoxyXmlFeature instance.

1 // Configure Properties.
2 final Map<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<String, Object>();
3 // ...
4
5 // Obtain a ClassLoader you want to use.
6 final ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
7
8 final ResourceConfig config = new ResourceConfig()
9 .packages("org.glassfish.jersey.examples.xmlmoxy")
10 .register(new MoxyXmlFeature(
11 properties,
12 classLoader,
13 true, // Flag to determine whether eclipselink-oxm.xml file should be u
14 CustomClassA.class, CustomClassB.class // Classes to be bound.
15 ));

9.3. Multipart
9.3.1. Overview
The classes in this module provide an integration of multipart/* request and response bodies in a
JAX-RS runtime environment. The set of registered providers is leveraged, in that the content type for a
body part of such a message reuses the same MessageBodyReader<T>/MessageBodyWriter<T>
implementations as would be used for that content type as a standalone entity.

The following list of general MIME MultiPart features is currently supported:

• The MIME-Version: 1.0 HTTP header is included on generated responses. It is accepted, but not
required, on processed requests.

• A MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/
MessageBodyReader.html] implementation for consuming MIME MultiPart entities.

• A MessageBodyWriter<T> implementation for producing MIME MultiPart entities. The

appropriate @Provider is used to serialize each body part, based on its media type.

• Optional creation of an appropriate boundary parameter on a generated Content-Type header, if

not already present.

For more information refer to Multi Part [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/

media/multipart/package-summary.html].

9.3.1.1. Dependency
To use multipart features you need to add jersey-media-multipart module to your pom.xml file:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-media-multipart</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>

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</dependency>

If you're not using Maven make sure to have all needed dependencies (see jersey-media-multipart
[https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-media-multipart/dependencies.html]) on
the class-path.

9.3.1.2. Registration
Before you can use capabilities of the jersey-media-multipart module in your client/server code,
you need to register MultiPartFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
media/multipart/MultiPartFeature.html].

Example 9.42. Building client with MultiPart feature enabled.

final Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
.register(MultiPartFeature.class)
.build();

Example 9.43. Creating JAX-RS application with MultiPart feature enabled.

// Create JAX-RS application.
final Application application = new ResourceConfig()
.packages("org.glassfish.jersey.examples.multipart")
.register(MultiPartFeature.class)

9.3.1.3. Examples
Jersey provides a Multipart Web Application Example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/
examples/multipart-webapp] on how to use multipart features.

9.3.2. Client
MultiPart [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/multipart/
MultiPart.html] class (or it's subclasses) can be used as an entry point to using jersey-
media-multipart module on the client side. This class represents a MIME multipart
message [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Multipart_messages] and is able to hold an arbitrary
number of BodyPart [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/multipart/
BodyPart.html]s. Default media type is multipart/mixed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Mixed] for
MultiPart entity and text/plain for BodyPart.

Example 9.44. MultiPart entity

final MultiPart multiPartEntity = new MultiPart()
.bodyPart(new BodyPart().entity("hello"))
.bodyPart(new BodyPart(new JaxbBean("xml"), MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_TYPE)
.bodyPart(new BodyPart(new JaxbBean("json"), MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYP

final WebTarget target = // Create WebTarget.

final Response response = target
.request()
.post(Entity.entity(multiPartEntity, multiPartEntity.getMediaType()));

If you send a multiPartEntity to the server the entity with Content-Type header in HTTP
message would look like (don't forget to register a JSON provider):

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Example 9.45. MultiPart entity in HTTP message.

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=Boundary_1_829077776_1369128119878

--Boundary_1_829077776_1369128119878
Content-Type: text/plain

hello
--Boundary_1_829077776_1369128119878
Content-Type: application/xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><jaxbBean><value>xml</value>

--Boundary_1_829077776_1369128119878
Content-Type: application/json

{"value":"json"}
--Boundary_1_829077776_1369128119878--

When working with forms (e.g. media type multipart/form-data) and various fields in them, there
is a more convenient class to be used - FormDataMultiPart [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/media/multipart/FormDataMultiPart.html]. It automatically sets the media type for the
FormDataMultiPart entity to multipart/form-data and Content-Disposition header
to FormDataBodyPart body parts.

Example 9.46. FormDataMultiPart entity

final FormDataMultiPart multipart = new FormDataMultiPart()
.field("hello", "hello")
.field("xml", new JaxbBean("xml"))
.field("json", new JaxbBean("json"), MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE);

final WebTarget target = // Create WebTarget.

final Response response = target.request().post(Entity.entity(multipart, multipart.

To illustrate the difference when using FormDataMultiPart instead of FormDataBodyPart you

can take a look at the FormDataMultiPart entity from HTML message:

Example 9.47. FormDataMultiPart entity in HTTP message.

Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=Boundary_1_511262261_1369143433608

--Boundary_1_511262261_1369143433608
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="hello"

hello
--Boundary_1_511262261_1369143433608
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="xml"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><jaxbBean><value>xml</value>

--Boundary_1_511262261_1369143433608
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="json"

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{"value":"json"}
--Boundary_1_511262261_1369143433608--

A common use-case for many users is sending files from client to server. For this purpose you
can use classes from org.glassfish.jersey.jersey.media.multipart package, such
as FileDataBodyPart [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/multipart/
file/FileDataBodyPart.html] or StreamDataBodyPart [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/media/multipart/file/StreamDataBodyPart.html].

Example 9.48. Multipart - sending files.

// MediaType of the body part will be derived from the file.
final FileDataBodyPart filePart = new FileDataBodyPart("my_pom", new File("pom.xml"

final FormDataMultiPart multipart = new FormDataMultiPart()

.field("foo", "bar")
.bodyPart(filePart);

final WebTarget target = // Create WebTarget.

final Response response = target.request()
.post(Entity.entity(multipart, multipart.getMediaType()));

Warning
Do not use ApacheConnectorProvider nor GrizzlyConnectorProvider neither
JettyConnectorProvider connector implementations with Jersey Multipart features. See
Header modification issue warning for more details.

9.3.3. Server
Returning a multipart response from server to client is not much different from the parts described in the
client section above. To obtain a multipart entity, sent by a client, in the application you can use two
approaches:

• Injecting the whole MultiPart [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/

multipart/MultiPart.html] entity.

• Injecting particular parts of a form-data multipart request via

@FormDataParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/multipart/
FormDataParam.html] annotation.

9.3.3.1. Injecting and returning the MultiPart entity

Working with MultiPart types is no different from injecting/returning other entity types. Jersey
provides MessageBodyReader<T> for reading the request entity and injecting this entity into a method
parameter of a resource method and MessageBodyWriter<T> for writing output entities. You can
expect that either MultiPart or FormDataMultiPart (multipart/form-data media type)
object to be injected into a resource method.

Example 9.49. Resource method using MultiPart as input parameter / return

value.
@POST

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@Produces("multipart/mixed")
public MultiPart post(final FormDataMultiPart multiPart) {
return multiPart;
}

9.3.3.2. Injecting with @FormDataParam

If you just need to bin the named body part(s) of a multipart/form-data request entity body to a
resource method parameter you can use @FormDataParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/media/multipart/FormDataParam.html] annotation.

This annotation in conjunction with the media type multipart/form-data should be used for
submitting and consuming forms that contain files, non-ASCII data, and binary data.

The type of the annotated parameter can be one of the following (for more detailed description see javadoc
to @FormDataParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/multipart/
FormDataParam.html]):

• FormDataBodyPart - The value of the parameter will be the first named body part or null if such
a named body part is not present.

• A List or Collection of FormDataBodyPart. The value of the parameter will one or more
named body parts with the same name or null if such a named body part is not present.

• FormDataContentDisposition - The value of the parameter will be the content disposition of

the first named body part part or null if such a named body part is not present.

• A List or Collection of FormDataContentDisposition. The value of the parameter will

one or more content dispositions of the named body parts with the same name or null if such a named
body part is not present.

• A type for which a message body reader is available given the media type of the first named body part.
The value of the parameter will be the result of reading using the message body reader given the type
T, the media type of the named part, and the bytes of the named body part as input.

If there is no named part present and there is a default value present as declared by @DefaultValue
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/DefaultValue.html] then the media type
will be set to text/plain. The value of the parameter will be the result of reading using the message
body reader given the type T, the media type text/plain, and the UTF-8 encoded bytes of the default
value as input.

If there is no message body reader available and the type T conforms to a type specified
by @FormParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/FormParam.html] then
processing is performed as specified by @FormParam, where the values of the form parameter are
String instances produced by reading the bytes of the named body parts utilizing a message body
reader for the String type and the media type text/plain.

If there is no named part present then processing is performed as specified by @FormParam.

Example 9.50. Use of @FormDataParam annotation

@POST
@Consumes(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA)
public String postForm(
@DefaultValue("true") @FormDataParam("enabled") boolean enabled,
@FormDataParam("data") FileData bean,

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@FormDataParam("file") InputStream file,

@FormDataParam("file") FormDataContentDisposition fileDisposition) {

// ...
}

In the example above the server consumes a multipart/form-data request entity body that contains
one optional named body part enabled and two required named body parts data and file.

The optional part enabled is processed as a boolean value, if the part is absent then the value will
be true.

The part data is processed as a JAXB bean and contains some meta-data about the following part.

The part file is a file that is uploaded, this is processed as an InputStream. Additional
information about the file from the Content-Disposition header can be accessed by the parameter
fileDisposition.

Tip
@FormDataParam annotation can be also used on fields.

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Chapter 10. Filters and Interceptors
10.1. Introduction
This chapter describes filters, interceptors and their configuration. Filters and interceptors can be used
on both sides, on the client and the server side. Filters can modify inbound and outbound requests and
responses including modification of headers, entity and other request/response parameters. Interceptors are
used primarily for modification of entity input and output streams. You can use interceptors for example
to zip and unzip output and input entity streams.

10.2. Filters
Filters can be used when you want to modify any request or response parameters like headers. For example
you would like to add a response header "X-Powered-By" to each generated response. Instead of adding
this header in each resource method you would use a response filter to add this header.

There are filters on the server side and the client side.

Server filters:

ContainerRequestFilter [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/
ContainerRequestFilter.html]
ContainerResponseFilter [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/
ContainerResponseFilter.html]
Client filters:

ClientRequestFilter [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/
ClientRequestFilter.html]
ClientResponseFilter [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/
ClientResponseFilter.html]

10.2.1. Server filters

The following example shows a simple container response filter adding a header to each response.

Example 10.1. Container response filter

1 import java.io.IOException;
2 import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerRequestContext;
3 import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerResponseContext;
4 import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerResponseFilter;
5 import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
6
7 public class PoweredByResponseFilter implements ContainerResponseFilter {
8
9 @Override
10 public void filter(ContainerRequestContext requestContext, ContainerRespons
11 throws IOException {
12
13 responseContext.getHeaders().add("X-Powered-By", "Jersey :-)");
14 }

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15 }

In the example above the PoweredByResponseFilter always adds a header "X-Powered-By"

to the response. The filter must inherit from the ContainerResponseFilter [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/ContainerResponseFilter.html] and must be registered as
a provider. The filter will be executed for every response which is in most cases after the resource method
is executed. Response filters are executed even if the resource method is not run, for example when the
resource method is not found and 404 "Not found" response code is returned by the Jersey runtime. In this
case the filter will be executed and will process the 404 response.

The filter() method has two arguments, the container request and container response.
The ContainerRequestContext [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/
ContainerRequestContext.html] is accessible only for read only purposes as the filter is executed already in
response phase. The modifications can be done in the ContainerResponseContext [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/ContainerResponseContext.html].

The following example shows the usage of a request filter.

Example 10.2. Container request filter

1 import java.io.IOException;
2 import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerRequestContext;
3 import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerRequestFilter;
4 import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
5 import javax.ws.rs.core.SecurityContext;
6
7 public class AuthorizationRequestFilter implements ContainerRequestFilter {
8
9 @Override
10 public void filter(ContainerRequestContext requestContext)
11 throws IOException {
12
13 final SecurityContext securityContext =
14 requestContext.getSecurityContext();
15 if (securityContext == null ||
16 !securityContext.isUserInRole("privileged")) {
17
18 requestContext.abortWith(Response
19 .status(Response.Status.UNAUTHORIZED)
20 .entity("User cannot access the resource.")
21 .build());
22 }
23 }
24 }

The request filter is similar to the response filter but does not have access to the ContainerResponseContext
as no response is accessible yet. Response filter inherits from ContainerResponseFilter [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/ContainerResponseFilter.html]. Request
filter is executed before the resource method is run and before the response is created. The filter has
possibility to manipulate the request parameters including request headers or entity.

The AuthorizationRequestFilter in the example checks whether the authenticated

user is in the privileged role. If it is not then the request is aborted by calling
ContainerRequestContext.abortWith(Response response) method. The method is
intended to be called from the request filter in situation when the request should not be processed further in

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the standard processing chain. When the filter method is finished the response passed as a parameter
to the abortWith method is used to respond to the request. Response filters, if any are registered, will
be executed and will have possibility to process the aborted response.

10.2.1.1. Pre-matching and post-matching filters

All the request filters shown above was implemented as post-matching filters. It means that the filters
would be applied only after a suitable resource method has been selected to process the actual request i.e.
after request matching happens. Request matching is the process of finding a resource method that should
be executed based on the request path and other request parameters. Since post-matching request filters
are invoked when a particular resource method has already been selected, such filters can not influence
the resource method matching process.

To overcome the above described limitation, there is a possibility to mark a server request filter as a pre-
matching filter, i.e. to annotate the filter class with the @PreMatching [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/PreMatching.html] annotation. Pre-matching filters are request
filters that are executed before the request matching is started. Thanks to this, pre-matching request filters
have the possibility to influence which method will be matched. Such a pre-matching request filter example
is shown here:

Example 10.3. Pre-matching request filter

1 ...
2 import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerRequestContext;
3 import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerRequestFilter;
4 import javax.ws.rs.container.PreMatching;
5 ...
6
7 @PreMatching
8 public class PreMatchingFilter implements ContainerRequestFilter {
9
10 @Override
11 public void filter(ContainerRequestContext requestContext)
12 throws IOException {
13 // change all PUT methods to POST
14 if (requestContext.getMethod().equals("PUT")) {
15 requestContext.setMethod("POST");
16 }
17 }
18 }

The PreMatchingFilter is a simple pre-matching filter which changes all PUT HTTP methods to
POST. This might be useful when you want to always handle these PUT and POST HTTP methods
with the same Java code. After the PreMatchingFilter has been invoked, the rest of the request
processing will behave as if the POST HTTP method was originally used. You cannot do this in post-
matching filters (standard filters without @PreMatching annotation) as the resource method is already
matched (selected). An attempt to tweak the original HTTP method in a post-matching filter would cause
an IllegalArgumentException.

As written above, pre-matching filters can fully influence the request matching process, which means you
can even modify request URI in a pre-matching filter by invoking the setRequestUri(URI) method
of ContainerRequestFilter so that a different resource would be matched.

Like in post-matching filters you can abort a response in pre-matching filters too.

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10.2.2. Client filters

Client filters are similar to container filters. The response can also be
aborted in the ClientRequestFilter [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/
ClientRequestFilter.html] which would cause that no request will actually be sent to the server at all. A
new response is passed to the abort method. This response will be used and delivered as a result of the
request invocation. Such a response goes through the client response filters. This is similar to what happens
on the server side. The process is shown in the following example:

Example 10.4. Client request filter

1 public class CheckRequestFilter implements ClientRequestFilter {
2
3 @Override
4 public void filter(ClientRequestContext requestContext)
5 throws IOException {
6 if (requestContext.getHeaders(
7 ).get("Client-Name") == null) {
8 requestContext.abortWith(
9 Response.status(Response.Status.BAD_REQUEST)
10 .entity("Client-Name header must be defined.")
11 .build());
12 }
13 }
14 }

The CheckRequestFilter validates the outgoing request. It is checked for presence of a Client-
Name header. If the header is not present the request will be aborted with a made up response with an
appropriate code and message in the entity body. This will cause that the original request will not be
effectively sent to the server but the actual invocation will still end up with a response as if it would be
generated by the server side. If there would be any client response filter it would be executed on this
response.

To summarize the workflow, for any client request invoked from the client API the client
request filters (ClientRequestFilter [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/
ClientRequestFilter.html]) are executed that could manipulate the request. If not aborted, the outcoming
request is then physically sent over to the server side and once a response is received back from the server
the client response filters (ClientResponseFilter [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/
ws/rs/client/ClientResponseFilter.html]) are executed that might again manipulate the returned response.
Finally the response is passed back to the code that invoked the request. If the request was aborted in any
client request filter then the client/server communication is skipped and the aborted response is used in
the response filters.

10.3. Interceptors
Interceptors share a common API for the server and the client side. Whereas filters are primarily intended to
manipulate request and response parameters like HTTP headers, URIs and/or HTTP methods, interceptors
are intended to manipulate entities, via manipulating entity input/output streams. If you for example need
to encode entity body of a client request then you could implement an interceptor to do the work for you.

There are two kinds of interceptors, ReaderInterceptor [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/

javax/ws/rs/ext/ReaderInterceptor.html] and WriterInterceptor [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/WriterInterceptor.html]. Reader interceptors are used to manipulate inbound entity

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streams. These are the streams coming from the "wire". So, using a reader interceptor you can manipulate
request entity stream on the server side (where an entity is read from the client request) and response entity
stream on the client side (where an entity is read from the server response). Writer interceptors are used for
cases where entity is written to the "wire" which on the server means when writing out a response entity
and on the client side when writing request entity for a request to be sent out to the server. Writer and
reader interceptors are executed before message body readers or writers are executed and their primary
intention is to wrap the entity streams that will be used in message body reader and writers.

The following example shows a writer interceptor that enables GZIP compression of the whole entity body.

Example 10.5. GZIP writer interceptor

1 public class GZIPWriterInterceptor implements WriterInterceptor {
2
3 @Override
4 public void aroundWriteTo(WriterInterceptorContext context)
5 throws IOException, WebApplicationException {
6 final OutputStream outputStream = context.getOutputStream();
7 context.setOutputStream(new GZIPOutputStream(outputStream));
8 context.proceed();
9 }
10 }

The interceptor gets a output stream from the WriterInterceptorContext [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-

javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/WriterInterceptorContext.html] and sets a new one which is a GZIP
wrapper of the original output stream. After all interceptors are executed the output stream lastly set to the
WriterInterceptorContext will be used for serialization of the entity. In the example above the
entity bytes will be written to the GZIPOutputStream which will compress the stream data and write them
to the original output stream. The original stream is always the stream which writes the data to the "wire".
When the interceptor is used on the server, the original output stream is the stream into which writes data
to the underlying server container stream that sends the response to the client.

The interceptors wrap the streams and they itself work as wrappers. This means that each interceptor
is a wrapper of another interceptor and it is responsibility of each interceptor implementation
to call the wrapped interceptor. This is achieved by calling the proceed() method on the
WriterInterceptorContext. This method will call the next registered interceptor in the chain,
so effectivelly this will call all remaining registered interceptors. Calling proceed() from the last
interceptor in the chain will call the appropriate message body reader. Therefore every interceptor must call
the proceed() method otherwise the entity would not be written. The wrapping principle is reflected
also in the method name, aroundWriteTo, which says that the method is wrapping the writing of the entity.

The method aroundWriteTo() gets WriterInterceptorContext as a parameter. This context

contains getters and setters for header parameters, request properties, entity, entity stream and other
properties. These are the properties which will be passed to the final MessageBodyWriter<T>.
Interceptors are allowed to modify all these properties. This could influence writing of an entity
by MessageBodyWriter<T> and even selection of such a writer. By changing media type
(WriterInterceptorContext.setMediaType()) the interceptor can cause that different message
body writer will be chosen. The interceptor can also completely replace the entity if it is needed. However,
for modification of headers, request properties and such, the filters are usually more preferable choice.
Interceptors are executed only when there is any entity and when the entity is to be written. So, when you
always want to add a new header to a response no matter what, use filters as interceptors might not be
executed when no entity is present. Interceptors should modify properties only for entity serialization and
deserialization purposes.

Let's now look at an example of a ReaderInterceptor

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Example 10.6. GZIP reader interceptor

1 public class GZIPReaderInterceptor implements ReaderInterceptor {
2
3 @Override
4 public Object aroundReadFrom(ReaderInterceptorContext context)
5 throws IOException, WebApplicationException {
6 final InputStream originalInputStream = context.getInputStream();
7 context.setInputStream(new GZIPInputStream(originalInputStream));
8 return context.proceed();
9 }
10 }

The GZIPReaderInterceptor wraps the original input stream with the GZIPInputStream.
All further reads from the entity stream will cause that data will be decompressed by this stream.
The interceptor method aroundReadFrom() must return an entity. The entity is returned from
the proceed method of the ReaderInterceptorContext [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/ext/ReaderInterceptorContext.html]. The proceed method internally calls the wrapped
interceptor which must also return an entity. The proceed method invoked from the last interceptor in
the chain calls message body reader which deserializes the entity end returns it. Every interceptor can
change this entity if there is a need but in the most cases interceptors will just return the entity as returned
from the proceed method.

As already mentioned above, interceptors should be primarily used to manipulate entity body. Similar
to methods exposed by WriterInterceptorContext the ReaderInterceptorContext
introduces a set of methods for modification of request/response properties like HTTP headers, URIs and/
or HTTP methods (excluding getters and setters for entity as entity has not been read yet). Again the
same rules as for WriterInterceptor applies for changing these properties (change only properties
in order to influence reading of an entity).

10.4. Filter and interceptor execution order

Let's look closer at the context of execution of filters and interceptors. The following steps describes
scenario where a JAX-RS client makes a POST request to the server. The server receives an entity and
sends a response back with the same entity. GZIP reader and writer interceptors are registered on the client
and the server. Also filters are registered on client and server which change the headers of request and
response.

1. Client request invoked: The POST request with attached entity is built on the client and invoked.

2. ClientRequestFilters: client request filters are executed on the client and they manipulate the request
headers.

3. Client WriterInterceptor: As the request contains an entity, writer interceptor registered on the
client is executed before a MessageBodyWriter is executed. It wraps the entity output stream with the
GZipOutputStream.

4. Client MessageBodyWriter: message body writer is executed on the client which serializes the entity
into the new GZipOutput stream. This stream zips the data and sends it to the "wire".

5. Server: server receives a request. Data of entity is compressed which means that pure read from the
entity input stream would return compressed data.

6. Server pre-matching ContainerRequestFilters: ContainerRequestFilters are executed that can

manipulate resource method matching process.

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7. Server: matching: resource method matching is done.

8. Server: post-matching ContainerRequestFilters: ContainerRequestFilters post matching filters are

executed. This include execution of all global filters (without name binding) and filters name-bound
to the matched method.

9. Server ReaderInterceptor: reader interceptors are executed on the server. The

GZIPReaderInterceptor wraps the input stream (the stream from the "wire") into the GZipInputStream
and set it to context.

10.Server MessageBodyReader: server message body reader is executed and it deserializes the entity from
new GZipInputStream (get from the context). This means the reader will read unzipped data and not
the compressed data from the "wire".

11.Server resource method is executed: the deserialized entity object is passed to the matched resource
method as a parameter. The method returns this entity as a response entity.

12.Server ContainerResponseFilters are executed: response filters are executed on the server and they
manipulate the response headers. This include all global bound filters (without name binding) and all
filters name-bound to the resource method.

13.Server WriterInterceptor: is executed on the server. It wraps the original output stream with a
new GZIPOuptutStream. The original stream is the stream that "goes to the wire" (output stream for
response from the underlying server container).

14.Server MessageBodyWriter: message body writer is executed on the server which serializes the entity
into the GZIPOutputStream. This stream compresses the data and writes it to the original stream which
sends this compressed data back to the client.

15.Client receives the response: the response contains compressed entity data.

16.Client ClientResponseFilters: client response filters are executed and they manipulate the response
headers.

17.Client response is returned: the javax.ws.rs.core.Response is returned from the request invocation.

18.Client code calls response.readEntity(): read entity is executed on the client to extract the entity from
the response.

19.Client ReaderInterceptor: the client reader interceptor is executed when readEntity(Class) is

called. The interceptor wraps the entity input stream with GZIPInputStream. This will decompress the
data from the original input stream.

20.Client MessageBodyReaders: client message body reader is invoked which reads decompressed data
from GZIPInputStream and deserializes the entity.

21.Client: The entity is returned from the readEntity().

It is worth to mention that in the scenario above the reader and writer interceptors are invoked only if the
entity is present (it does not make sense to wrap entity stream when no entity will be written). The same
behaviour is there for message body readers and writers. As mentioned above, interceptors are executed
before the message body reader/writer as a part of their execution and they can wrap the input/output
stream before the entity is read/written. There are exceptions when interceptors are not run before message
body reader/writers but this is not the case of simple scenario above. This happens for example when the
entity is read many times from client response using internal buffering. Then the data are intercepted only
once and kept 'decoded' in the buffer.

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10.5. Name binding

Filters and interceptors can be name-bound. Name binding is a concept that allows to say to a JAX-RS
runtime that a specific filter or interceptor will be executed only for a specific resource method. When a
filter or an interceptor is limited only to a specific resource method we say that it is name-bound. Filters
and interceptors that do not have such a limitation are called global.

Filter or interceptor can be assigned to a resource method using the @NameBinding [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/NameBinding.html] annotation. The annotation is used as meta
annotation for other user implemented annotations that are applied to a providers and resource methods.
See the following example:

Example 10.7. @NameBinding example

1 ...
2 import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
3 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
4 import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
5
6 import javax.ws.rs.GET;
7 import javax.ws.rs.NameBinding;
8 import javax.ws.rs.Path;
9 import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
10 ...
11
12
13 // @Compress annotation is the name binding annotation
14 @NameBinding
15 @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
16 public @interface Compress {}
17
18
19 @Path("helloworld")
20 public class HelloWorldResource {
21
22 @GET
23 @Produces("text/plain")
24 public String getHello() {
25 return "Hello World!";
26 }
27
28 @GET
29 @Path("too-much-data")
30 @Compress
31 public String getVeryLongString() {
32 String str = ... // very long string
33 return str;
34 }
35 }
36
37 // interceptor will be executed only when resource methods
38 // annotated with @Compress annotation will be executed
39 @Compress

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40 public class GZIPWriterInterceptor implements WriterInterceptor {

41 @Override
42 public void aroundWriteTo(WriterInterceptorContext context)
43 throws IOException, WebApplicationException {
44 final OutputStream outputStream = context.getOutputStream();
45 context.setOutputStream(new GZIPOutputStream(outputStream));
46 context.proceed();
47 }
48 }

The example above defines a new @Compress annotation which is a name binding annotation
as it is annotated with @NameBinding. The @Compress is applied on the resource method
getVeryLongString() and on the interceptor GZIPWriterInterceptor. The interceptor will
be executed only if any resource method with such a annotation will be executed. In our example case
the interceptor will be executed only for the getVeryLongString() method. The interceptor will not
be executed for method getHello(). In this example the reason is probably clear. We would like to
compress only long data and we do not need to compress the short response of "Hello World!".

Name binding can be applied on a resource class. In the example HelloWorldResource would be
annotated with @Compress. This would mean that all resource methods will use compression in this case.

There might be many name binding annotations defined in an application. When any provider (filter or
interceptor) is annotated with more than one name binding annotation, then it will be executed for resource
methods which contain ALL these annotations. So, for example if our interceptor would be annotated with
another name binding annotation @GZIP then the resource method would need to have both annotations
attached, @Compress and @GZIP, otherwise the interceptor would not be executed. Based on the previous
paragraph we can even use the combination when the resource method getVeryLongString() would
be annotated with @Compress and resource class HelloWorldResource would be annotated from
with @GZIP. This would also trigger the interceptor as annotations of resource methods are aggregated
from resource method and from resource class. But this is probably just an edge case which will not be
used so often.

Note that global filters are executed always, so even for resource methods which have any name binding
annotations.

10.6. Dynamic binding

Dynamic binding is a way how to assign filters and interceptors to the resource methods in a dynamic
manner. Name binding from the previous chapter uses a static approach and changes to binding require
source code change and recompilation. With dynamic binding you can implement code which defines
bindings during the application initialization time. The following example shows how to implement
dynamic binding.

Example 10.8. Dynamic binding example

1 ...
2 import javax.ws.rs.core.FeatureContext;
3 import javax.ws.rs.container.DynamicFeature;
4 ...
5
6 @Path("helloworld")
7 public class HelloWorldResource {
8
9 @GET

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10 @Produces("text/plain")
11 public String getHello() {
12 return "Hello World!";
13 }
14
15 @GET
16 @Path("too-much-data")
17 public String getVeryLongString() {
18 String str = ... // very long string
19 return str;
20 }
21 }
22
23 // This dynamic binding provider registers GZIPWriterInterceptor
24 // only for HelloWorldResource and methods that contain
25 // "VeryLongString" in their name. It will be executed during
26 // application initialization phase.
27 public class CompressionDynamicBinding implements DynamicFeature {
28
29 @Override
30 public void configure(ResourceInfo resourceInfo, FeatureContext context) {
31 if (HelloWorldResource.class.equals(resourceInfo.getResourceClass())
32 && resourceInfo.getResourceMethod()
33 .getName().contains("VeryLongString")) {
34 context.register(GZIPWriterInterceptor.class);
35 }
36 }
37 }

The example contains one HelloWorldResource which is known from the previous
name binding example. The difference is in the getVeryLongString method, which now
does not define the @Compress name binding annotations. The binding is done using the
provider which implements DynamicFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/container/DynamicFeature.html] interface. The interface defines one configure method with two
arguments, ResourceInfo and FeatureContext. ResourceInfo contains information about
the resource and method to which the binding can be done. The configure method will be executed
once for each resource method that is defined in the application. In the example above the provider
will be executed twice, once for the getHello() method and once for getVeryLongString()
( once the resourceInfo will contain information about getHello() method and once it will point to
getVeryLongString()). If a dynamic binding provider wants to register any provider for the actual resource
method it will do that using provided FeatureContext which extends JAX-RS Configurable API.
All methods for registration of filter or interceptor classes or instances can be used. Such dynamically
registered filters or interceptors will be bound only to the actual resource method. In the example above
the GZIPWriterInterceptor will be bound only to the method getVeryLongString() which
will cause that data will be compressed only for this method and not for the method getHello(). The
code of GZIPWriterInterceptor is in the examples above.

Note that filters and interceptors registered using dynamic binding are only additional filters run for the
resource method. If there are any name bound providers or global providers they will still be executed.

10.7. Priorities
In case you register more filters and interceptors you might want to define an exact order in which
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javax.annotation.Priority class. The annotation accepts an integer parameter of priority.

Providers used in request processing (ContainerRequestFilter, ClientRequestFilter) as
well as entity interceptors (ReaderInterceptor, WriterInterceptor) are sorted based on the
priority in an ascending manner. So, a request filter with priority defined with @Priority(1000)
will be executed before another request filter with priority defined as @Priority(2000). Providers
used during response processing (ContainerResponseFilter, ClientResponseFilter) are
executed in the reverse order (using descending manner), so a provider with the priority defined
with @Priority(2000) will be executed before another provider with priority defined with
@Priority(1000).

It's a good practice to assign a priority to filters and interceptors. Use Priorities [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Priorities.html] class which defines standardized
priorities in JAX-RS for different usages, rather than inventing your own priorities. So, when you
for example write an authentication filter you would assign a priority 1000 which is the value of
Priorities.AUTHENTICATION. The following example shows the filter from the beginning of this
chapter with a priority assigned.

Example 10.9. Priorities example

1 ...
2 import javax.annotation.Priority;
3 import javax.ws.rs.Priorities;
4 ...
5
6 @Priority(Priorities.HEADER_DECORATOR)
7 public class ResponseFilter implements ContainerResponseFilter {
8
9 @Override
10 public void filter(ContainerRequestContext requestContext,
11 ContainerResponseContext responseContext)
12 throws IOException {
13
14 responseContext.getHeaders().add("X-Powered-By", "Jersey :-)");
15 }
16 }

As this is a response filter and response filters are executed in the reverse order, any other filter with priority
lower than 3000 (Priorities.HEADER_DECORATOR is 3000) will be executed after this filter. So,
for example AUTHENTICATION filter (priority 1000) would be run after this filter.

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and Clients
This chapter describes the usage of asynchronous API on the client and server side. The term async will
be sometimes used interchangeably with the term asynchronous in this chapter.

11.1. Asynchronous Server API

Request processing on the server works by default in a synchronous processing mode, which means that
a client connection of a request is processed in a single I/O container thread. Once the thread processing
the request returns to the I/O container, the container can safely assume that the request processing is
finished and that the client connection can be safely released including all the resources associated with the
connection. This model is typically sufficient for processing of requests for which the processing resource
method execution takes a relatively short time. However, in cases where a resource method execution is
known to take a long time to compute the result, server-side asynchronous processing model should be
used. In this model, the association between a request processing thread and client connection is broken.
I/O container that handles incoming request may no longer assume that a client connection can be safely
closed when a request processing thread returns. Instead a facility for explicitly suspending, resuming and
closing client connections needs to be exposed. Note that the use of server-side asynchronous processing
model will not improve the request processing time perceived by the client. It will however increase the
throughput of the server, by releasing the initial request processing thread back to the I/O container while
the request may still be waiting in a queue for processing or the processing may still be running on another
dedicated thread. The released I/O container thread can be used to accept and process new incoming request
connections.

The following example shows a simple asynchronous resource method defined using the new JAX-RS
async API:

Example 11.1. Simple async resource

1 @Path("/resource")
2 public class AsyncResource {
3 @GET
4 public void asyncGet(@Suspended final AsyncResponse asyncResponse) {
5
6 new Thread(new Runnable() {
7 @Override
8 public void run() {
9 String result = veryExpensiveOperation();
10 asyncResponse.resume(result);
11 }
12
13 private String veryExpensiveOperation() {
14 // ... very expensive operation
15 }
16 }).start();
17 }
18 }

In the example above, a resource AsyncResource with one GET method asyncGet is defined.
The asyncGet method injects a JAX-RS AsyncResponse [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-

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rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/AsyncResponse.html] instance using a JAX-RS @Suspended [https://

jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/Suspended.html] annotation. Please note
that AsyncResponse must be injected by the @Suspended annotation and not by @Context
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Context.html] as @Suspended does
not only inject response but also says that the method is executed in the asynchronous mode. By the
AsyncResponse parameter into a resource method we tell the Jersey runtime that the method is
supposed to be invoked using the asynchronous processing mode, that is the client connection should not
be automatically closed by the underlying I/O container when the method returns. Instead, the injected
AsyncResponse instance (that represents the suspended client request connection) will be used to
explicitly send the response back to the client using some other thread. In other words, Jersey runtime
knows that when the asyncGet method completes, the response to the client may not be ready yet and
the processing must be suspended and wait to be explictly resumed with a response once it becomes
available. Note that the method asyncGet returns void in our example. This is perfectly valid in case of
an asynchronous JAX-RS resource method, even for a @GET [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/GET.html] method, as the response is never returned directly from the resource
method as its return value. Instead, the response is later returned using AsyncResponse instance as it
is demonstrated in the example. The asyncGet resource method starts a new thread and exits from the
method. In that state the request processing is suspended and the container thread (the one which entered
the resource method) is returned back to the container's thread pool and it can process other requests. New
thread started in the resource method may execute an expensive operation which might take a long time
to finish. Once a result is ready it is resumed using the resume() method on the AsyncResponse
instance. The resumed response is then processed in the new thread by Jersey in a same way as any
other synchronous response, including execution of filters and interceptors, use of exception mappers as
necessary and sending the response back to the client.

It is important to note that the asynchronous response (asyncResponse in the example) does not need to
be resumed from the thread started from the resource method. The asynchronous response can be resumed
even from different request processing thread as it is shown in the the example of the AsyncResponse
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/AsyncResponse.html] javadoc. In
the javadoc example the async response suspended from the GET method is resumed later on from the
POST method. The suspended async response is passed between requests using a static field and is resumed
from the other resource method running on a different request processing thread.

Imagine now a situation when there is a long delay between two requests and you would not like to let the
client wait for the response "forever" or at least for an unacceptable long time. In asynchronous processing
model, occurrences of such situations should be carefully considered with client connections not being
automatically closed when the processing method returns and the response needs to be resumed explicitly
based on an event that may actually even never happen. To tackle these situations asynchronous timeouts
can be used.

The following example shows the usage of timeouts:

Example 11.2. Simple async method with timeout

1 @GET
2 public void asyncGetWithTimeout(@Suspended final AsyncResponse asyncResponse) {
3 asyncResponse.setTimeoutHandler(new TimeoutHandler() {
4
5 @Override
6 public void handleTimeout(AsyncResponse asyncResponse) {
7 asyncResponse.resume(Response.status(Response.Status.SERVICE_UNAVAI
8 .entity("Operation time out.").build());
9 }
10 });
11 asyncResponse.setTimeout(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

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12
13 new Thread(new Runnable() {
14
15 @Override
16 public void run() {
17 String result = veryExpensiveOperation();
18 asyncResponse.resume(result);
19 }
20
21 private String veryExpensiveOperation() {
22 // ... very expensive operation that typically finishes within 20 s
23 }
24 }).start();
25 }

By default, there is no timeout defined on the suspended AsyncResponse instance. A custom timeout
and timeout event handler may be defined using setTimeoutHandler(TimeoutHandler) and
setTimeout(long, TimeUnit) methods. The setTimeoutHandler(TimeoutHandler)
method defines the handler that will be invoked when timeout is reached. The handler resumes
the response with the response code 503 (from Response.Status.SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE). A
timeout interval can be also defined without specifying a custom timeout handler (using just the
setTimeout(long, TimeUnit) method). In such case the default behaviour of Jersey runtime is to
throw a ServiceUnavailableException that gets mapped into 503, "Service Unavailable" HTTP
error response, as defined by the JAX-RS specification.

11.1.1. Asynchronous Server-side Callbacks

As operations in asynchronous cases might take long time and they are not always finished within a single
resource method invocation, JAX-RS offers facility to register callbacks to be invoked based on suspended
async response state changes. In Jersey you can register two JAX-RS callbacks:

• CompletionCallback [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/
CompletionCallback.html] that is executed when request finishes or fails, and

• ConnectionCallback [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/
ConnectionCallback.html] executed when a connection to a client is closed or lost.

Example 11.3. CompletionCallback example

1 @Path("/resource")
2 public class AsyncResource {
3 private static int numberOfSuccessResponses = 0;
4 private static int numberOfFailures = 0;
5 private static Throwable lastException = null;
6
7 @GET
8 public void asyncGetWithTimeout(@Suspended final AsyncResponse asyncRespons
9 asyncResponse.register(new CompletionCallback() {
10 @Override
11 public void onComplete(Throwable throwable) {
12 if (throwable == null) {
13 // no throwable - the processing ended successfully
14 // (response already written to the client)
15 numberOfSuccessResponses++;
16 } else {

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17 numberOfFailures++;
18 lastException = throwable;
19 }
20 }
21 });
22
23 new Thread(new Runnable() {
24 @Override
25 public void run() {
26 String result = veryExpensiveOperation();
27 asyncResponse.resume(result);
28 }
29
30 private String veryExpensiveOperation() {
31 // ... very expensive operation
32 }
33 }).start();
34 }
35 }

A completion callback is registered using register(...) method on the AsyncResponse instance.

A registered completion callback is bound only to the response(s) to which it has been registered. In the
example the CompletionCallback is used to calculate successfully processed responses, failures and
to store last exception. This is only a simple case demonstrating the usage of the callback. You can use
completion callback to release the resources, change state of internal resources or representations or handle
failures. The method has an argument Throwable which is set only in case of an error. Otherwise the
parameter will be null, which means that the response was successfully written. The callback is executed
only after the response is written to the client (not immediately after the response is resumed).

The AsyncResponse register(...) method is overloaded and offers options to register a single
callback as an Object (in the example), as a Class or multiple callbacks using varags.

As some async requests may take long time to process the client may decide to terminate it's connection
to the server before the response has been resumed or before it has been fully written to the client. To deal
with these use cases a ConnectionCallback can be used. This callback will be executed only if the
connection was prematurely terminated or lost while the response is being written to the back client. Note
that this callback will not be invoked when a response is written successfully and the client connection is
closed as expected. See javadoc of ConnectionCallback [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/container/ConnectionCallback.html] for more information.

11.1.2. Chunked Output

Jersey offers a facility for sending response to the client in multiple more-or-less independent chunks
using a chunked output. Each response chunk usually takes some (longer) time to prepare before sending
it to the client. The most important fact about response chunks is that you want to send them to the client
immediately as they become available without waiting for the remaining chunks to become available too.
The first bytes of each chunked response consists of the HTTP headers that are sent to the client. As noted
above, the entity of the response is then sent in chunks as they become available. Client knows that the
response is going to be chunked, so it reads each chunk of the response separately, processes it, and waits
for more chunks to arrive on the same connection. After some time, the server generates another response
chunk and send it again to the client. Server keeps on sending response chunks until it closes the connection
after sending the last chunk when the response processing is finished.

In Jersey you can use ChunkedOutput [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/

server/ChunkedOutput.html] to send response to a client in chunks. Chunks are strictly defined pieces of

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a response body can be marshalled as a separate entities using Jersey/JAX-RS MessageBodyWriter<T>

[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/MessageBodyWriter.html] providers. A
chunk can be String, Long or JAXB bean serialized to XML or JSON or any other dacustom type for
which a MessageBodyWriter<T> is available.
The resource method that returns ChunkedOutput informs the Jersey runtime that the response
will be chunked and that the processing works asynchronously as such. You do not need to inject
AsyncResponse to start the asynchronous processing mode in this case. Returning a ChunkedOutput
instance from the method is enough to indicate the asynchronous processing. Response headers will be
sent to a client when the resource method returns and the client will wait for the stream of chunked data
which you will be able to write from different thread using the same ChunkedOutput instance returned
from the resource method earlier. The following example demonstrates this use case:

Example 11.4. ChunkedOutput example

1 @Path("/resource")
2 public class AsyncResource {
3 @GET
4 public ChunkedOutput<String> getChunkedResponse() {
5 final ChunkedOutput<String> output = new ChunkedOutput<String>(String.c
6
7 new Thread() {
8 public void run() {
9 try {
10 String chunk;
11
12 while ((chunk = getNextString()) != null) {
13 output.write(chunk);
14 }
15 } catch (IOException e) {
16 // IOException thrown when writing the
17 // chunks of response: should be handled
18 } finally {
19 output.close();
20 // simplified: IOException thrown from
21 // this close() should be handled here...
22 }
23 }
24 }.start();
25
26 // the output will be probably returned even before
27 // a first chunk is written by the new thread
28 return output;
29 }
30
31 private String getNextString() {
32 // ... long running operation that returns
33 // next string or null if no other string is accessible
34 }
35 }
The example above defines a GET method that returns a ChunkedOutput instance. The generic type
of ChunkedOutput defines the chunk types (in this case chunks are Strings). Before the instance is
returned a new thread is started that writes individual chunks into the chunked output instance named
output. Once the original thread returns from the resource method, Jersey runtime writes headers to the

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container response but does not close the client connection yet and waits for the response data to be written
to the chunked output. New thread in a loop calls the method getNextString() which returns a next
String or null if no other String exists (the method could for example load latest data from the database).
Returned Strings are written to the chunked output. Such a written chunks are internally written to the
container response and client can read them. At the end the chunked output is closed which determines
the end of the chunked response. Please note that you must close the output explicitly in order to close the
client connection as Jersey does not implicitly know when you are finished with writing the chunks.

A chunked output can be processed also from threads created from another request as it is explained in the
sections above. This means that one resource method may e.g. only return a ChunkedOutput instance
and other resource method(s) invoked from another request thread(s) can write data into the chunked output
and/or close the chunked response.

11.2. Client API

The client API supports asynchronous processing too. Simple usage of asynchronous client API is shown
in the following example:

Example 11.5. Simple client async invocation

1 final AsyncInvoker asyncInvoker = target().path("http://example.com/resource/")
2 .request().async();
3 final Future<Response> responseFuture = asyncInvoker.get();
4 System.out.println("Request is being processed asynchronously.");
5 final Response response = responseFuture.get();
6 // get() waits for the response to be ready
7 System.out.println("Response received.");

The difference against synchronous invocation is that the http method call get()
is not called on SyncInvoker [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/
SyncInvoker.html] but on AsyncInvoker [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/client/AsyncInvoker.html]. The AsyncInvoker is returned from the call of method
Invocation.Builder.async() as shown above. AsyncInvoker offers methods similar to
SyncInvoker only these methods do not return a response synchronously. Instead a Future<...>
representing response data is returned. These method calls also return immediately without waiting
for the actual request to complete. In order to get the response of the invoked get() method, the
responseFuture.get() is invoked which waits for the response to be finished (this call is blocking
as defined by the Java SE Future contract).

Asynchronous Client API in JAX-RS is fully integrated in the fluent JAX-RS Client API flow, so that the
async client-side invocations can be written fluently just like in the following example:

Example 11.6. Simple client fluent async invocation

1 final Future<Response> responseFuture = target().path("http://example.com/resou
2 .request().async().get();

To work with asynchronous results on the client-side, all standard Future API facilities can be used. For
example, you can use the isDone() method to determine whether a response has finished to avoid the
use of a blocking call to Future.get().

11.2.1. Asynchronous Client Callbacks

Similarly to the server side, in the client API you can register asynchronous callbacks too. You can use these
callbacks to be notified when a response arrives instead of waiting for the response on Future.get()

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or checking the status by Future.isDone() in a loop. A client-side asynchronous invocation callback

can be registered as shown in the following example:

Example 11.7. Client async callback

1 final Future<Response> responseFuture = target().path("http://example.com/resou
2 .request().async().get(new InvocationCallback<Response>() {
3 @Override
4 public void completed(Response response) {
5 System.out.println("Response status code "
6 + response.getStatus() + " received.");
7 }
8
9 @Override
10 public void failed(Throwable throwable) {
11 System.out.println("Invocation failed.");
12 throwable.printStackTrace();
13 }
14 });

The registered callback is expected to implement the InvocationCallback [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-

javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/InvocationCallback.html] interface that defines two methods. First
method completed(Response) gets invoked when an invocation successfully finishes. The result
response is passed as a parameter to the callback method. The second method failed(Throwable) is
invoked in case the invocation fails and the exception describing the failure is passed to the method as a
parameter. In this case since the callback generic type is Response, the failed(Throwable) method
would only invoked in case the invocation fails because of an internal client-side processing error. It would
not be invoked in case a server responds with an HTTP error code, for example if the requested resource is
not found on the server and HTTP 404 response code is returned. In such case completed(Response)
callback method would be invoked and the response passed to the method would contain the returned error
response with HTTP 404 error code. This is a special behavior in case the generic callback return type
is Response. In the next example an exception is thrown (or failed(Throwable) method on the
invocation callback is invoked) even in case a non-2xx HTTP error code is returned.

As with the synchronous client API, you can retrieve the response entity as a Java type directly without
requesting a Response first. In case of an InvocationCallback, you need to set its generic type
to the expected response entity type instead of using the Response type as demonstrated in the example
below:

Example 11.8. Client async callback for specific entity

1 final Future<String> entityFuture = target().path("http://example.com/resource/
2 .request().async().get(new InvocationCallback<String>() {
3 @Override
4 public void completed(String response) {
5 System.out.println("Response entity '" + response + "' received
6 }
7
8 @Override
9 public void failed(Throwable throwable) {
10 System.out.println("Invocation failed.");
11 throwable.printStackTrace();
12 }
13 });

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14 System.out.println(entityFuture.get());

Here, the generic type of the invocation callback information is used to unmarshall the HTTP response
content into a desired Java type.

Important
Please note that in this case the method failed(Throwable throwable) would be
invoked even for cases when a server responds with a non HTTP-2xx HTTP error code. This is
because in this case the user does not have any other means of finding out that the server returned
an error response.

11.2.2. Chunked input

In an earlier section the ChunkedOutput was described. It was shown how to use a chunked output on
the server. In order to read chunks on the client the ChunkedInput [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/ChunkedInput.html] can be used to complete the story.

You can, of course, process input on the client as a standard input stream but if you would like to
leverage Jersey infrastructure to provide support of translating message chunk data into Java types using a
ChunkedInput is much more straightforward. See the usage of the ChunkedInput in the following
example:

Example 11.9. ChunkedInput example

1 final Response response = target().path("http://example.com/resource/")
2 .request().get();
3 final ChunkedInput<String> chunkedInput =
4 response.readEntity(new GenericType<ChunkedInput<String>>() {});
5 String chunk;
6 while ((chunk = chunkedInput.read()) != null) {
7 System.out.println("Next chunk received: " + chunk);
8 }
9

The response is retrieved in a standard way from the server. The entity is read as a ChunkedInput
entity. In order to do that the GenericEntity<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/
ws/rs/core/GenericEntity.html] is used to preserve a generic information at run time. If you would not
use GenericEntity<T>, Java language generic type erasure would cause that the generic information
would get lost at compile time and an exception would be thrown at run time complaining about the missing
chunk type definition.

In the next lines in the example, individual chunks are being read from the response. Chunks can come
with some delay, so they will be written to the console as they come from the server. After receiving last
chunk the null will be returned from the read() method. This will mean that the server has sent the last
chunk and closed the connection. Note that the read() is a blocking operation and the invoking thread
is blocked until a new chunk comes.

Writing chunks with ChunkedOutput is simple, you only call method write() which writes exactly
one chunk to the output. With the input reading it is slightly more complicated. The ChunkedInput does
not know how to distinguish chunks in the byte stream unless being told by the developer. In order to define
custom chunks boundaries, the ChunkedInput offers possibility to register a ChunkParser [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/ChunkParser.html] which reads chunks
from the input stream and separates them. Jersey provides several chunk parser implementation and you

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can implement your own parser to separate your chunks if you need. In our example above the default
parser provided by Jersey is used that separates chunks based on presence of a \r\n delimiting character
sequence.

Each incoming input stream is firstly parsed by the ChunkParser, then each chunk is processed
by the proper MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/
MessageBodyReader.html]. You can define the media type of chunks to aid the selection of a proper
MessageBodyReader<T> in order to read chunks correctly into the requested entity types (in our case
into Strings).

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12.1. Building URIs
A very important aspect of REST is hyperlinks, URIs, in representations that clients can use to transition the
Web service to new application states (this is otherwise known as "hypermedia as the engine of application
state"). HTML forms present a good example of this in practice.

Building URIs and building them safely is not easy with URI [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/
java/net/URI.html], which is why JAX-RS has the UriBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/UriBuilder.html] class that makes it simple and easy to build URIs safely.
UriBuilder can be used to build new URIs or build from existing URIs. For resource classes it is more
than likely that URIs will be built from the base URI the web service is deployed at or from the request
URI. The class UriInfo [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/UriInfo.html]
provides such information (in addition to further information, see next section).

The following example shows URI building with UriInfo and UriBuilder from the bookmark
example:

Example 12.1. URI building

1 @Path("/users/")
2 public class UsersResource {
3
4 @Context
5 UriInfo uriInfo;
6
7 ...
8
9 @GET
10 @Produces("application/json")
11 public JSONArray getUsersAsJsonArray() {
12 JSONArray uriArray = new JSONArray();
13 for (UserEntity userEntity : getUsers()) {
14 UriBuilder ub = uriInfo.getAbsolutePathBuilder();
15 URI userUri = ub.
16 path(userEntity.getUserId()).
17 build();
18 uriArray.put(userUri.toASCIIString());
19 }
20 return uriArray;
21 }
22 }

UriInfo is obtained using the @Context annotation, and in this particular example injection onto the
field of the root resource class is performed, previous examples showed the use of @Context on resource
method parameters.

UriInfo can be used to obtain URIs and associated UriBuilder instances for the following URIs: the
base URI the application is deployed at; the request URI; and the absolute path URI, which is the request
URI minus any query components.

The getUsersAsJsonArray method constructs a JSONArrray, where each element is a URI

identifying a specific user resource. The URI is built from the absolute path of the request URI

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by calling UriInfo.getAbsolutePathBuilder() [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/

rs/core/UriInfo.html#getAbsolutePathBuilder()]. A new path segment is added, which is the user ID, and
then the URI is built. Notice that it is not necessary to worry about the inclusion of '/' characters or
that the user ID may contain characters that need to be percent encoded. UriBuilder takes care of such
details.

UriBuilder can be used to build/replace query or matrix parameters. URI templates can also
be declared, for example the following will build the URI "http://localhost/segment?
name=value":

Example 12.2. Building URIs using query parameters

1 UriBuilder.fromUri("http://localhost/")
2 .path("{a}")
3 .queryParam("name", "{value}")
4 .build("segment", "value");

12.2. Resolve and Relativize

JAX-RS 2.0 introduced additional URI resolution and relativization methods in the UriBuilder:

• UriInfo.resolve(java.net.URI) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
UriInfo.html#resolve(java.net.URI)]

• UriInfo.relativize(java.net.URI) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
UriInfo.html#relativize(java.net.URI)]

• UriBuilder.resolveTemplate(...) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
UriBuilder.html#resolveTemplate(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object)] (various arguments)

Resolve and relativize methods in UriInfo [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/

javax/ws/rs/core/UriInfo.html] are essentially counterparts to the methods listed above
- UriInfo.resolve(java.net.URI) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
UriInfo.html#resolve(java.net.URI)] resolves given relative URI to an absolute URI using application
context URI as the base URI; UriInfo.relativize(java.net.URI) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/UriInfo.html#relativize(java.net.URI)] then transforms an absolute URI to a
relative one, using again the applications context URI as the base URI.

UriBuilder also introduces a set of methods that provide ways of resolving URI templates by replacing
individual templates with a provided value(s). A short example:

1 final URI uri = UriBuilder.fromUri("http://{host}/{path}?q={param}")

2 .resolveTemplate("host", "localhost")
3 .resolveTemplate("path", "myApp")
4 .resolveTemplate("param", "value").build();
5
6 uri.toString(); // returns "http://localhost/myApp?q=value"

See the UriBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/UriBuilder.html]

javadoc for more details.

12.3. Link
JAX-RS 2.0 introduces Link [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
Link.html] class, which serves as a representation of Web Link defined in RFC 5988 [http://tools.ietf.org/

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html/rfc5988]. The JAX-RS Link class adds API support for providing additional metadata in HTTP
messages, for example, if you are consuming a REST interface of a public library, you might have a
resource returning description of a single book. Then you can include links to related resources, such as a
book category, author, etc. to make the produced response concise but complete at the same time. Clients
are then able to query all the additional information they are interested in and are not forced to consume
details they are not interested in. At the same time, this approach relieves the server resources as only the
information that is truly requested is being served to the clients.

A Link can be serialized to an HTTP message (tyically a response) as additional HTTP header (there
might be multiple Link headers provided, thus multiple links can be served in a single message). Such
HTTP header may look like:

Link: <http://example.com/TheBook/chapter2>; rel="prev"; title="previous chapter"

Producing and consuming Links with JAX-RS API is demonstrated in the following example:

// server side - adding links to a response:

Response r = Response.ok().
link("http://oracle.com", "parent").
link(new URI("http://jersey.java.net"), "framework").
build();

...

// client-side processing:
final Response response = target.request().get();

URI u = response.getLink("parent").getUri();
URI u = response.getLink("framework").getUri();

Instances of Link can be also created directly by invoking one of the factory methods on the Link [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Link.html] API that returns a Link.Builder
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Link.Builder.html] that can be used to
configure and produce new links.

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RESTful APIs must be hypertext-driven [http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-
hypertext-driven]. JAX-RS currently offers UriBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/core/UriBuilder.html] to simplify URI creation but Jersey adds an additional annotation-based
alternative that is described here.

Important
This API is currently under development and experimental so it is subject to change at any time.

13.1. Dependency
To use Declarative Linking you need to add jersey-declarative-linking module to your
pom.xml file:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-declarative-linking</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

Additionaly you will need to add the following dependencies, if you are not deploying into a container
that is already including them:

<dependency>
<groupId>javax.el</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.el-api</artifactId>
<version>2.2.4</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
<version>2.2.4</version>
</dependency>

If you're not using Maven make sure to have all needed dependencies (see jersey-
declarative-linking [https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-declarative-linking/
dependencies.html]) on the classpath.

13.2. Links in Representations

Links are added to representations using the @InjectLink annotation on entity class fields. The Jersey
runtime is responsible for injecting the appropriate URI into the field prior to serialization by a message
body writer. E.g. consider the following resource and entity classes:

@Path("widgets")
public class WidgetsResource {
@GET
public Widgets get() {
return new Widgets();
}
}

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public class Widgets {

@InjectLink(resource=WidgetsResource.class)
URI u;
}

After a call toWidgetsResource#get, the Jersey runtime will inject the value "/context/
widgets" 1 into the returned Widgets instance. If an absolute URI is desired instead of an absolute path
then the annotation can be changed to @InjectLink(resource=WidgetsResource.class,
style=ABSOLUTE).

The above usage works nicely when there's already a URI template on a class that you want to reuse. If
there's no such template available then you can use a literal value instead of a reference. E.g. the following
is equivalent to the earlier example: @InjectLink(value="widgets", style=ABSOLUTE).

13.3. Binding Template Parameters

Referenced or literal templates may contain parameters. Two forms of parameters are supported:

• URI template parameters, e.g. widgets/{id} where {id} represents a variable part of the URI.

• EL expressions, e.g. widgets/${instance.id} where ${instance.id} is an EL expression.

Parameter values can be extracted from three implicit beans:

instance Represents the instance of the class that contains the annotated field.

entity Represents the entity class instance returned by the resource

method.

resource Represents the resource class instance that returned the entity.

By default URI template parameter values are extracted from the implicit instance bean, i.e. the
following two annotations are equivalent:

@InjectLink("widgets/{id}")

@InjectLink("widgets/${instance.id}")

The source for URI template parameter values can be changed using the @Binding annotation, E.g. the
following three annotations are equivalent:

@InjectLink(value="widgets/{id}", bindings={
@Binding(name="id" value="${resource.id}"}
)

@InjectLink(value="widgets/{value}", bindings={
@Binding("${resource.id}")})
@InjectLink("widgets/${resource.id}")

13.4. Conditional Link Injection

Link value injection can be made conditional by use of the condition property. The value of this
property is a boolean EL expression and a link will only be injected if the condition expression evaluates
to true. E.g.:
1
Where /context is the application deployment context.

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@InjectLink(value="widgets/${instance.id}/offers",
condition="${instance.offers}")
URI offers;

In the above, a URI will only be injected into the offers field if the offers property of the instance
is true.

13.5. List of Link Injection

You can inject multiple links into an array of a List collection type. E.g.:

@InjectLinks({@InjectLink(resource=WidgetsResource.class, rel = "self")})

List<Link> links

13.6. Link Headers

HTTP Link headers [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#section-5] can also be added to responses using
annotations. Instead of annotating the fields of an entity class with @InjectLink, you instead annotate
the entity class itself with @InjectLinks. E.g.:

@InjectLinks(
@InjectLink(value="widgets/${resource.nextId}", rel="next")
)

The above would insert a HTTP Link header into any response whose entity was thus annotated. The
@InjectLink annotation contains properties that map to the parameters of the HTTP Link header. The
above specifies the link relation as next. All properties of the @InjectLink annotation may be used
as described above.

Multiple link headers can be added by use of the @InjectLinks annotation which can contain multiple
@InjectLink annotations.

13.7. Prevent Recursive Injection

By default, Jersey will try to recursively find all @InjectionLink annotations in the members of
your object unless this member is annotated with @XmlTransient. But in some cases, you might want
to control which member will be introspected regardless of the @XmlTransient annotation. You can
prevent Jersey to look into an object by adding @InjectLinkNoFollow to a field.

@InjectLinkNoFollow
Context context;

13.8. Configure and register

In order to add the Declarative Linking feature register DeclarativeLinkingFeature [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/linking/DeclarativeLinkingFeature.html]

Example 13.1. Creating JAX-RS application with Declarative Linking feature

enabled.
// Create JAX-RS application.

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final Application application = new ResourceConfig()

.packages("org.glassfish.jersey.examples.linking")
.register(DeclarativeLinkingFeature.class);

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Building Resources
14.1. Introduction
A standard approach of developing JAX-RS application is to implement resource classes annotated with
@Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] with resource methods
annotated with HTTP method annotations like @GET [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/GET.html] or @POST [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
POST.html] and implement needed functionality. This approach is described in the chapter JAX-
RS Application, Resources and Sub-Resources [jaxrs-resources.html]. Besides this standard JAX-RS
approach, Jersey offers an API for constructing resources programmatically.

Imagine a situation where a deployed JAX-RS application consists of many resource classes. These
resources implement standard HTTP methods like @GET [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/GET.html], @POST [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
POST.html], @DELETE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/DELETE.html].
In some situations it would be useful to add an @OPTIONS [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/OPTIONS.html] method which would return some kind of meta data about the
deployed resource. Ideally, you would want to expose the functionality as an additional feature and you
want to decide at the deploy time whether you want to add your custom OPTIONS method. However,
when custom OPTIONS method are not enabled you would like to be OPTIONS requests handled in the
standard way by JAX-RS runtime. To achieve this you would need to modify the code to add or remove
custom OPTIONS methods before deployment. Another way would be to use programmatic API to build
resource according to your needs.

Another use case of programmatic resource builder API is when you build any generic RESTful interface
which depends on lot of configuration parameters or for example database structure. Your resource classes
would need to have different methods, different structure for every new application deploy. You could
use more solutions including approaches where your resource classes would be built using Java byte
code manipulation. However, this is exactly the case when you can solve the problem cleanly with the
programmatic resource builder API. Let's have a closer look at how the API can be utilized.

14.2. Programmatic Hello World example

Jersey Programmatic API was designed to fully support JAX-RS resource model. In other words, every
resource that can be designed using standard JAX-RS approach via annotated resource classes can be also
modelled using Jersey programmatic API. Let's try to build simple hello world resource using standard
approach first and then using the Jersey programmatic resource builder API.

The following example shows standard JAX-RS "Hello world!" resource class.

Example 14.1. A standard resource class

1
2 @Path("helloworld")
3 public class HelloWorldResource {
4
5 @GET
6 @Produces("text/plain")

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7 public String getHello() {

8 return "Hello World!";
9 }
10 }
11

This is just a simple resource class with one GET method returning "Hello World!" string that will be
serialized as text/plain media type.

Now we will design this simple resource using programmatic API.

Example 14.2. A programmatic resource

1
2 package org.glassfish.jersey.examples.helloworld;
3
4 import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerRequestContext;
5 import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;
6 import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
7 import org.glassfish.jersey.process.Inflector;
8 import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig;
9 import org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.Resource;
10 import org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethod;
11
12
13 public static class MyResourceConfig extends ResourceConfig
14
15 public MyResourceConfig() {
16 final Resource.Builder resourceBuilder = Resource.b
17 resourceBuilder.path("helloworld");
18
19 final ResourceMethod.Builder methodBuilder = resour
20 methodBuilder.produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_TYPE)
21 .handledBy(new Inflector<ContainerRequestCo
22
23 @Override
24 public String apply(ContainerRequestContext con
25 return "Hello World!";
26 }
27 });
28
29 final Resource resource = resourceBuilder.build();
30 registerResources(resource);
31 }
32 }
33

First, focus on the content of the MyResourceConfig constructor in the example. The Jersey
programmatic resource model is constructed from Resources that contain ResourceMethods. In the
example, a single resource would be constructed from a Resource containing one GET resource method
that returns "Hello World!". The main entry point for building programmatic resources in Jersey is the
Resource.Builder class. Resource.Builder contains just a few methods like the path method
used in the example, which sets the name of the path. Another useful method is a addMethod(String
path) which adds a new method to the resource builder and returns a resource method builder for the

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new method. Resource method builder contains methods which set consumed and produced media type,
define name bindings, timeout for asynchronous executions, etc. It is always necessary to define a resource
method handler (i.e. the code of the resource method that will return "Hello World!"). There are more
options how a resource method can be handled. In the example the implementation of Inflector is used.
The Jersey Inflector interface defines a simple contract for transformation of a request into a response.
An inflector can either return a Response [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
core/Response.html] or directly an entity object, the way it is shown in the example. Another option is to
setup a Java method handler using handledBy(Class<?> handlerClass, Method method)
and pass it the chosen java.lang.reflect.Method instance together with the enclosing class.

A resource method model construction can be explicitly completed by invoking build() on the resource
method builder. It is however not necessary to do so as the new resource method model will be built
automatically once the parent resource is built. Once a resource model is built, it is registered into the
resource config at the last line of the MyResourceConfig constructor in the example.

14.2.1. Deployment of programmatic resources

Let's now look at how a programmatic resources are deployed. The easiest way to setup your application
as well as register any programmatic resources in Jersey is to use a Jersey ResourceConfig
utility class, an extension of Application [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
core/Application.html] class. If you deploy your Jersey application into a Servlet container you
will need to provide a Application [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
Application.html] subclass that will be used for configuration. You may use a web.xml where you
would define a org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer Servlet entry there
and specify initial parameter javax.ws.rs.Application with the class name of your JAX-RS
Application that you wish to deploy. In the example above, this application will be MyResourceConfig
class. This is the reason why MyResourceConfig extends the ResourceConfig (which, if you
remember extends the javax.ws.rs.Application).

The following example shows a fragment of web.xml that can be used to deploy the ResourceConfig
JAX-RS application.

Example 14.3. A programmatic resource

1
2 ...
3 <servlet>
4 <servlet-name>org.glassfish.jersey.examples.hellowo
5 <servlet-class>org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.Servlet
6 <init-param>
7 <param-name>javax.ws.rs.Application</param-name
8 <param-value>org.glassfish.jersey.examples.hell
9 </init-param>
10 <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
11 </servlet>
12 <servlet-mapping>
13 <servlet-name>org.glassfish.jersey.examples.hellowo
14 <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
15 </servlet-mapping>
16 ...
17

If you use another deployment options and you have accessible instance of ResourceConfig which you
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method called on the ResourceConfig. Please note that the method registerResources() replaces all the
previously registered resources.

Because Jersey programmatic API is not a standard JAX-RS feature the ResourceConfig must be used
to register programmatic resources as shown above. See deployment chapter for more information.

14.3. Additional examples

Example 14.4. A programmatic resource
1
2 final Resource.Builder resourceBuilder = Resource.builder(H
3 resourceBuilder.addMethod("OPTIONS")
4 .handledBy(new Inflector<ContainerRequestContext, Respo
5 @Override
6 public Response apply(ContainerRequestContext conta
7 return Response.ok("This is a response to an OP
8 }
9 });
10 final Resource resource = resourceBuilder.build();
11

In the example above the Resource is built from a HelloWorldResource resource class. The
resource model built this way contains a GET method producing 'text/plain' responses with "Hello
World!" entity. This is quite important as it allows you to whatever Resource objects based on introspecting
existing JAX-RS resources and use builder API to enhance such these standard resources. In the example
we used already implemented HelloWorldResource resource class and enhanced it by OPTIONS
method. The OPTIONS method is handled by an Inflector which returns Response [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Response.html].

The following sample shows how to define sub-resource methods (methods that contains sub-path).

Example 14.5. A programmatic resource

1
2 final Resource.Builder resourceBuilder = Resource.builder("
3
4 final Resource.Builder childResource = resourceBuilder.addC
5 childResource.addMethod("GET").handledBy(new GetInflector()
6
7 final Resource resource = resourceBuilder.build();
8

Sub-resource methods are defined using so called child resource models. Child resource models (or child
resources) are programmatic resources build in the same way as any other programmatic resource but
they are registered as a child resource of a parent resource. The child resource in the example is build
directly from the parent builder using method addChildResource(String path). However, there
is also an option to build a child resource model separately as a standard resource and then add it as a
child resource to a selected parent resource. This means that child resource objects can be reused to define
child resources in different parent resources (you just build a single child resource and then register it in
multiple parent resources). Each child resource groups methods with the same sub-resource path. Note that
a child resource cannot have any child resources as there is nothing like sub-sub-resource method concept
in JAX-RS. For example if a sub resource method contains more path segments in its path (e.g. "/root/sub/
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method path) then parent resource will have path "root" and child resource will have path "sub/resource/
method" (so, there will not be any separate nested sub-resources for "sub", "resource" and "method").

See the javadocs of the resource builder API for more information.

14.4. Model processors

Jersey gives you an option to register so called model processor providers. These providers are able to
modify or enhance the application resource model during application deployment. This is an advanced
feature and will not be needed in most use cases. However, imagine you would like to add OPTIONS
resource method to each deployed resource as it is described at the top of this chapter. You would want to
do it for every programmatic resource that is registered as well as for all standard JAX-RS resources.

To do that, you first need to register a model processor provider in your application, which implements
org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ModelProcessor extension contract. An example
of a model processor implementation is shown here:

Example 14.6. A programmatic resource

1
2 import javax.ws.rs.GET;
3 import javax.ws.rs.Path;
4 import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
5 import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerRequestContext;
6 import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;
7 import javax.ws.rs.core.Configuration;
8 import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
9 import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
10 import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
11
12 import org.glassfish.jersey.process.Inflector;
13 import org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ModelProcessor;
14 import org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.Resource;
15 import org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethod;
16 import org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceModel;
17
18 @Provider
19 public static class MyOptionsModelProcessor implements Mode
20
21 @Override
22 public ResourceModel processResourceModel(ResourceModel
23 // we get the resource model and we want to enhance
24 ResourceModel.Builder newResourceModelBuilder = new
25 for (final Resource resource : resourceModel.getRes
26 // for each resource in the resource model we c
27 final Resource.Builder resourceBuilder = Resour
28
29 // we add a new OPTIONS method to each resource
30 // note that we should check whether the method
31 resourceBuilder.addMethod("OPTIONS")
32 .handledBy(new Inflector<ContainerRequestCo
33 @Override
34 public String apply(ContainerRequestCon
35 return "On this path the resource w

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36 + " methods is deployed.";

37 }
38 }).produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
39 .extended(true); // extended means: n
40
41 // we add to the model new resource which is a
42 // by the OPTIONS method
43 newResourceModelBuilder.addResource(resourceBui
44 }
45
46 final ResourceModel newResourceModel = newResourceM
47 // and we return new model
48 return newResourceModel;
49 };
50
51 @Override
52 public ResourceModel processSubResource(ResourceModel s
53 // we just return the original subResourceModel whi
54 return subResourceModel;
55 }
56 }
57

The MyOptionsModelProcessor from the example is a relatively simple model processor which
iterates over all registered resources and for all of them builds a new resource that is equal to the old
resource except it is enhanced with a new OPTIONS method.

Note that you only need to register such a ModelProcessor as your custom extension provider in the same
way as you would register any standard JAX-RS extension provider. During an application deployment,
Jersey will look for any registered model processor and execute them. As you can seem, model processors
are very powerful as they can do whatever manipulation with the resource model they like. A model
processor can even, for example, completely ignore the old resource model and return a new custom
resource model with a single "Hello world!" resource, which would result in only the "Hello world!"
resource being deployed in your application. Of course, it would not not make much sense to implement
such model processor, but the scenario demonstrates how powerful the model processor concept is. A
better, real-life use case scenario would, for example, be to always add some custom new resource to each
application that might return additional metadata about the deployed application. Or, you might want to
filter out particular resources or resource methods, which is another situation where a model processor
could be used successfully.

Also note that processSubResource(ResourceModel subResourceModel,

Configuration configuration) method is executed for each sub resource returned from the sub
resource locator. The example is simplified and does not do any manipulation but probably in such a case
you would want to enhance all sub resources with a new OPTIONS method handlers too.

It is important to remember that any model processor must always return valid resource model. As you
might have already noticed, in the example above this important rule is not followed. If any of the resources
in the original resource model would already have an OPTIONS method handler defined, adding another
handler would cause the application fail during the deployment in the resource model validation phase.
In order to retain the consistency of the final model, a model processor implementation would have to be
more robust than what is shown in the example.

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Support
15.1. What are Server-Sent Events
In a standard HTTP request-response scenario a client opens a connection, sends a HTTP request to the
server (for example a HTTP GET request), then receives a HTTP response back and the server closes the
connection once the response is fully sent/received. The initiative always comes from a client when the
client requests all the data. In contrast, Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a mechanism that allows server to
asynchronously push the data from the server to the client once the client-server connection is established
by the client. Once the connection is established by the client, it is the server who provides the data and
decides to send it to the client whenever new "chunk" of data is available. When a new data event occurs
on the server, the data event is sent by the server to the client. Thus the name Server-Sent Events. Note that
at high level there are more technologies working on this principle, a short overview of the technologies
supporting server-to-client communication is in this list:

Polling With polling a client repeatedly sends new requests to a server. If the
server has no new data, then it send appropriate indication and closes the
connection. The client then waits a bit and sends another request after some
time (after one second, for example).

Long-polling With long-polling a client sends a request to a server. If the server has no
new data, it just holds the connection open and waits until data is available.
Once the server has data (message) for the client, it uses the connection and
sends it back to the client. Then the connection is closed.

Server-Sent events SSE is similar to the long-polling mechanism, except it does not send only
one message per connection. The client sends a request and server holds a
connection until a new message is ready, then it sends the message back
to the client while still keeping the connection open so that it can be used
for another message once it becomes available. Once a new message is
ready, it is sent back to the client on the same initial connection. Client
processes the messages sent back from the server individually without
closing the connection after processing each message. So, SSE typically
reuses one connection for more messages (called events). SSE also defines
a dedicated media type that describes a simple format of individual events
sent from the server to the client. SSE also offers standard javascript
client API implemented most modern browsers. For more information
about SSE, see the SSE API specification [http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/
WD-eventsource-20091029/].

WebSocket WebSocket technology is different from previous technologies as it provides

a real full duplex connection. The initiator is again a client which sends a
request to a server with a special HTTP header that informs the server that the
HTTP connection may be "upgraded" to a full duplex TCP/IP WebSocket
connection. If server supports WebSocket, it may choose to do so. Once
a WebSocket connection is established, it can be used for bi-directional
communication between the client and the server. Both client and server
can then send data to the other party at will whenever it is needed. The
communication on the new WebSocket connection is no longer based on
HTTP protocol and can be used for example for for online gaming or any

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other applications that require fast exchange of small chunks of data in

flowing in both directions.

15.2. When to use Server-Sent Events

As explained above, SSE is a technology that allows clients to subscribe to event notifications that originate
on a server. Server generates new events and sends these events back to the clients subscribed to receive
the notifications. In other words, SSE offers a solution for a one-way publish-subscribe model.

A good example of the use case where SSE can be used is a simple message exchange RESTful service.
Clients POST new messages to the service and subscribe to receive messages from other clients. Let's
call the resource messages. While POSTing a new message to this resource involves a typical HTTP
request-response communication between a client and the messages resource, subscribing to receive all
new message notifications would be hard and impractical to model with a sequence of standard request-
response message exchanges. Using Server-sent events provides a much more practical approach here.
You can use SSE to let clients subscribe to the messages resource via standard GET request (use a
SSE client API, for example javascript API or Jersey Client SSE API) and let the server broadcast new
messages to all connected clients in the form of individual events (in our case using Jersey Server SSE
API). Note that with Jersey a SSE support is implemented as an usual JAX-RS resource method. There's
no need to do anything special to provide a SSE support in your Jersey/JAX-RS applications, your SSE-
enabled resources are a standard part of your RESTful Web application that defines the REST API of your
application. The following chapters describes SSE support in Jersey in more details.

Important
Note, that while SSE in Jersey is supported with standard JAX-RS resources, Jersey SSE APIs are
not part of the JAX-RS specification. SSE support and related APIs are a Jersey specific feature
that extends JAX-RS.

15.3. Jersey Server-Sent Events API

This chapter briefly describes the Jersey support for SSE. Details and examples will be covered in chapters
below.

Jersey contains support for SSE for both - server and client. SSE in Jersey is implemented as an extension
supporting a new media type, which means that SSE really treated as just another media type that can be
returned from a resource method and processed by the client. There is only a minimal additional support
for "chunked" messages added to Jersey which could not be implemented as standard JAX-RS media type
extension.

Before you start working with Jersey SSE, in order to add support for SSE you need to include the
dependency to the SSE media type module:

Example 15.1. Add jersey-media-sse dependency.

1 <dependency>
2 <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
3 <artifactId>jersey-media-sse</artifactId>
4 </dependency>

Note
Prior to Jersey 2.8, you had to manually register SseFeature [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/SseFeature.html] in your application. (The

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SseFeature is a feature that can be registered for both, the client and the server.)
Since Jersey 2.8, the feature gets automatically discovered and registered when Jersey SSE
module is put on the application's classpath. The automatic discovery and registration of SSE
feature can be suppressed by setting DISABLE_SSE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/SseFeature.html#DISABLE_SSE] property to true. The
behavior can also be selectively suppressed in either client or server runtime by setting
DISABLE_SSE_CLIENT [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
media/sse/SseFeature.html#DISABLE_SSE_CLIENT] or DISABLE_SSE_SERVER [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/
SseFeature.html#DISABLE_SSE_SERVER] property respectively.

SseFeature adds new supported entity (representation) Java types, namely OutboundEvent
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/OutboundEvent.html] for the
outbound server events and InboundEvent [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/media/sse/InboundEvent.html] for inbound client events. These types are serialized by
OutboundEventWriter and de-serialized by InboundEventReader. There is no restriction for
a media type used in individual event messages; however the media type used for a SSE stream as
whole is "text/event-stream" and this media type should be set on messages that are used to serve
SSE events (for example on the server side using @Produces [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Produces.html] on the method that returns an EventOutput - see below). The
InboundEvent and OutboundEvent contain all the fields needed for composing and processing
individual SSE events. These entities represent the chunks sent or received over an open server-
to-client connection that is represented by an ChunkedOutput [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ChunkedOutput.html] on the servers side and ChunkedInput [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/ChunkedInput.html] on the client side (if
you are not familiar with ChunkedOutput and ChunkedInput, see the Async chapter first for more
details). In other words, our resource method that is used to open a SSE connection to a client does
not return individual OutboundEvents. Instead, a new instance of EventOutput [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/EventOutput.html] is returned. EventOutput is a
typed extension of ChunkedOutput<OutboundEvent>. Similarly, to receive InboundEvents
on a client side, Jersey SSE API provides a EventInput that represents a typed extension of
ChunkedInput<InboundEvent>.

The Jersey server SSE API also contains a SseBroadcaster [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/

jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/SseBroadcaster.html] utility, that provides a convenient way of
grouping multiple EventOutput instances that represent individual client connections into a
group, and exposes methods for broadcasting new events to all the client connections grouped
in the broadcaster. The SseBroadcaster inherits from Broadcaster [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/Broadcaster.html] which is the generic broadcaster
implementation of the Jersey chunked message processing facility. On the client side, the Jersey
SSE API contains additional EventSource [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/media/sse/EventSource.html] and EventListener [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/media/sse/EventListener.html] classes that further improve convenience of processing
new inbound SSE events.

15.4. Implementing SSE support in a JAX-RS

resource
15.4.1. Simple SSE resource method
Firstly you need to add a Jersey SSE module dependency to your project as shown in the earlier section
and register the SseFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/

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SseFeature.html] from this module in your Application [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/

javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html] or ResourceConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/ResourceConfig.html]. Once done, you are ready to add SSE support to your
resource:

Example 15.2. Simple SSE resource method

1 ...
2 import org.glassfish.jersey.media.sse.EventOutput;
3 import org.glassfish.jersey.media.sse.OutboundEvent;
4 import org.glassfish.jersey.media.sse.SseFeature;
5 ...
6
7 @Path("events")
8 public static class SseResource {
9
10 @GET
11 @Produces(SseFeature.SERVER_SENT_EVENTS)
12 public EventOutput getServerSentEvents() {
13 final EventOutput eventOutput = new EventOutput();
14 new Thread(new Runnable() {
15 @Override
16 public void run() {
17 try {
18 for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
19 // ... code that waits 1 second
20 final OutboundEvent.Builder eventBuilder
21 = new OutboundEvent.Builder();
22 eventBuilder.name("message-to-client");
23 eventBuilder.data(String.class,
24 "Hello world " + i + "!");
25 final OutboundEvent event = eventBuilder.build();
26 eventOutput.write(event);
27 }
28 } catch (IOException e) {
29 throw new RuntimeException(
30 "Error when writing the event.", e);
31 } finally {
32 try {
33 eventOutput.close();
34 } catch (IOException ioClose) {
35 throw new RuntimeException(
36 "Error when closing the event output.", ioClose);
37 }
38 }
39 }
40 }).start();
41 return eventOutput;
42 }
43 }

The code above defines the resource deployed on URI "/events". This resource has a single @GET
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/GET.html] resource method which returns
as an entity EventOutput [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/

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EventOutput.html] - an extension of generic Jersey ChunkedOutput [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/

jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ChunkedOutput.html] API for output chunked message processing.

Note
If you are not familiar with ChunkedOutput and ChunkedInput, see the Async chapter
first for more details.
After the eventOutput is returned from the method, the Jersey runtime recognizes that this is a
ChunkedOutput extension and does not close the client connection immediately. Instead, it writes the
HTTP headers to the response stream and waits for more chunks (SSE events) to be sent. At this point the
client can read headers and starts listening for individual events.

Note
Since Jersey runtime does not implicitly close the connection to the client (similarly to
asynchronous processing), closing the connection is a responsibility of the resource method or
the client listening on the open connection for new events (see following example).

In the Example 15.2, “Simple SSE resource method”, the resource method creates a new thread that
sends a sequence of 10 events. There is a 1 second delay between two subsequent events as indicated
in a comment. Each event is represented by OutboundEvent type and is built with a helpf of an
outbound event Builder. The OutboundEvent reflects the standardized format of SSE messages
and contains properties that represent name (for named events), comment, data or id. The code also
sets the event data media type using the mediaType(MediaType) method on the eventBuilder.
The media type, together with the data type set by the data(Class, Object> method (in our
case String.class), is used for serialization of the event data. Note that the event data media type
will not be written to any headers as the response Content-type header is already defined by the
@Produces and set to "text/event-stream" using constant from the SseFeature. The event
media type is used for serialization of event data. Event data media type and Java type are used
to select the proper MessageBodyWriter<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/ext/MessageBodyWriter.html] for event data serialization and are passed to the selected writer that
serializes the event data content. In our case the string "Hello world " + i + "!" is serialized
as "text/plain". In event data you can send any Java entity and associate it with any media type
that you would be able to serialize with an available MessageBodyWriter<T>. Typically, you may
want to send e.g. JSON data, so you would fill the data with a JAXB annotated bean instance and define
media type to JSON.

Note
If the event media type is not set explicitly, the "text/plain" media type is used by default.

Once an outbound event is ready, it can be written to the eventOutput. At that point
the event is serialized by internal OutboundEventWriter which uses an appropriate
MessageBodyWriter<T> to serialize the "Hello world " + i + "!" string. You can send as
many messages as you like. At the end of the thread execution the response is closed which also closes the
connection to the client. After that, no more messages can be sent to the client on this connection. If the
client would like to receive more messages, it would have to send a new request to the server to initiate
a new SSE streaming connection.

A client connecting to our SSE-enabled resource will receive the following data from the entity stream:

event: message-to-client
data: Hello world 0!

event: message-to-client

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data: Hello world 1!

event: message-to-client
data: Hello world 2!

event: message-to-client
data: Hello world 3!

event: message-to-client
data: Hello world 4!

event: message-to-client
data: Hello world 5!

event: message-to-client
data: Hello world 6!

event: message-to-client
data: Hello world 7!

event: message-to-client
data: Hello world 8!

event: message-to-client
data: Hello world 9!

Each message is received with a delay of one second.

Note
If you have worked with streams in JAX-RS, you may wonder what is the
difference between ChunkedOutput [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/server/ChunkedOutput.html] and StreamingOutput [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/StreamingOutput.html].

ChunkedOutput is Jersey-specific API. It lets you send "chunks" of data without closing
the client connection using series of convenient calls to ChunkedOutput.write methods
that take POJO + chunk media type as an input and then use the configured JAX-RS
MessageBodyWriter<T> providers to figure out the proper way of serializing each chunk
POJO to bytes. Additionally, ChunkedOutput writes can be invoked multiple times on the
same outbound response connection, i.e. individual chunks are written in each write, not the full
response entity.

StreamingOutput is, on the other hand, a low level JAX-RS API that works with
bytes directly. You have to implement StreamingOutput interface yourself. Also, its
write(OutputStream) method will be invoked by JAX-RS runtime only once per response
and the call to this method is blocking, i.e. the method is expected to write the entire entity body
before returning.

15.4.2. Broadcasting with Jersey SSE

Jersey SSE server API defines SseBroadcaster [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/media/sse/SseBroadcaster.html] which allows to broadcast individual events to multiple clients. A
simple broadcasting implementation is shown in the following example:

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Example 15.3. Broadcasting SSE messages

1 ...
2 import org.glassfish.jersey.media.sse.SseBroadcaster;
3 ...
4
5 @Singleton
6 @Path("broadcast")
7 public static class BroadcasterResource {
8
9 private SseBroadcaster broadcaster = new SseBroadcaster();
10
11 @POST
12 @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
13 @Consumes(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
14 public String broadcastMessage(String message) {
15 OutboundEvent.Builder eventBuilder = new OutboundEvent.Builder();
16 OutboundEvent event = eventBuilder.name("message")
17 .mediaType(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_TYPE)
18 .data(String.class, message)
19 .build();
20
21 broadcaster.broadcast(event);
22
23 return "Message '" + message + "' has been broadcast.";
24 }
25
26 @GET
27 @Produces(SseFeature.SERVER_SENT_EVENTS)
28 public EventOutput listenToBroadcast() {
29 final EventOutput eventOutput = new EventOutput();
30 this.broadcaster.add(eventOutput);
31 return eventOutput;
32 }
33 }

Let's explore the example together. The BroadcasterResource resource class is annotated
with @Singleton [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/inject/Singleton.html] annotation which tells
Jersey runtime that only a single instance of the resource class should be used to serve all the incoming
requests to /broadcast path. This is needed as we want to keep an application-wide single reference to
the private broadcaster field so that we can use the same instance for all requests. Clients that want
to listen to SSE events first send a GET request to the BroadcasterResource, that is handled by the
listenToBroadcast() resource method. The method creates a new EventOutput representing
the connection to the requesting client and registers this eventOutput instance with the singleton
broadcaster, using its add(EventOutput) method. The method then returns the eventOutput
which causes Jersey to bind the eventOutput instance with the requesting client and send the response
HTTP headers to the client. The client connection remains open and the client is now waiting ready to
receive new SSE events. All the events are written to the eventOutput by broadcaster later on.
This way developers can conveniently handle sending new events to all the clients that subscribe to them.

When a client wants to broadcast new message to all the clients listening on their SSE connections,
it sends a POST request to BroadcasterResource resource with the message content. The
method broadcastMessage(String) is invoked on BroadcasterResource resource with
the message content as an input parameter. A new SSE outbound event is built in the standard

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way and passed to the broadcaster. The broadcaster internally invokes write(OutboundEvent)
on all registered EventOutputs. After that the method just return a standard text response to the
POSTing client to inform the client that the message was successfully broadcast. As you can see, the
broadcastMessage(String) resource method is just a simple JAX-RS resource method.

In order to implement such a scenario, you may have noticed, that the Jersey SseBroadcaster is not
mandatory to complete the use case. individual EventOutput [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/EventOutput.html]s can be just stored in a collection and iterated over in
the broadcastMessage method. However, the SseBroadcaster internally identifies and handles
also client disconnects. When a client closes the connection the broadcaster detects this and removes
the stale connection from the internal collection of the registered EventOutput [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/EventOutput.html]s as well as it frees all the server-
side resources associated with the stale connection. Additionally, the SseBroadcaster is implemented
to be thread-safe, so that clients can connect and disconnect in any time and SseBroadcaster will
always broadcast messages to the most recent collection of registered and active set of clients.

15.5. Consuming SSE events with Jersey

clients
On the client side, Jersey exposes APIs that support receiving and processing SSE events using two
programming models:

Pull model - pulling events from a EventInput [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/

jersey/media/sse/EventInput.html], or
Push model - listening for asynchronous notifications of EventSource
Both models will be described.

15.5.1. Reading SSE events with EventInput

The events can be read on the client side from a EventInput [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/EventInput.html]. See the following code:

1 Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()

2 .register(SseFeature.class).build();
3 WebTarget target = client.target("http://localhost:9998/events");
4
5 EventInput eventInput = target.request().get(EventInput.class);
6 while (!eventInput.isClosed()) {
7 final InboundEvent inboundEvent = eventInput.read();
8 if (inboundEvent == null) {
9 // connection has been closed
10 break;
11 }
12 System.out.println(inboundEvent.getName() + "; "
13 + inboundEvent.readData(String.class));
14 }

In this example, a client connects to the server where the SseResource from the Example 15.2,
“Simple SSE resource method” is deployed. At first, a new JAX-RS/Jersey client instance is created
with a SseFeature registered. Then a WebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/client/WebTarget.html] instance is retrieved from the client and is used to invoke a
HTTP request. The returned response entity is directly read as a EventInput Java type, which is an
extension of Jersey ChunkedInput that provides generic support for consuming chunked message

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payloads. The code in the example then process starts a loop to process the inbound SSE events read
from the eventInput response stream. Each chunk read from the input is a InboundEvent. The
method InboundEvent.readData(Class) provides a way for the client to indicate what Java type
should be used for the event data de-serialization. In our example, individual events are de-serialized as
String Java type instances. This method internally finds and executes a proper MessageBodyReader<T>
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/MessageBodyReader.html] which is the
used to do the actual de-serialization. This is similar to reading an entity from the Response [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Response.html] by readEntity(Class).
The method readData can also throw a ProcessingException [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ProcessingException.html].

The null check on inboundEvent is necessary to make sure that the chunk was properly read and
connection has not been closed by the server. Once the connection is closed, the loop terminates and the
program completes execution. The client code produces the following console output:

message-to-client; Hello world 0!

message-to-client; Hello world 1!
message-to-client; Hello world 2!
message-to-client; Hello world 3!
message-to-client; Hello world 4!
message-to-client; Hello world 5!
message-to-client; Hello world 6!
message-to-client; Hello world 7!
message-to-client; Hello world 8!
message-to-client; Hello world 9!

15.5.2. Asynchronous SSE processing with

EventSource
The main Jersey SSE client API component used to read SSE events
asynchronously is EventSource [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/
sse/EventSource.html]. The usage of the EventSource is shown on the following example.

Example 15.4. Registering EventListener with EventSource

1 Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
2 .register(SseFeature.class).build();
3 WebTarget target = client.target("http://example.com/events");
4 EventSource eventSource = EventSource.target(target).build();
5 EventListener listener = new EventListener() {
6 @Override
7 public void onEvent(InboundEvent inboundEvent) {
8 System.out.println(inboundEvent.getName() + "; "
9 + inboundEvent.readData(String.class));
10 }
11 };
12 eventSource.register(listener, "message-to-client");
13 eventSource.open();
14 ...
15 eventSource.close();

In this example, the client code again connects to the server where the SseResource from the
Example 15.2, “Simple SSE resource method” is deployed. The Client [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-

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javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Client.html] instance is again created and initialized with SseFeature

[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/SseFeature.html]. Then the
WebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/WebTarget.html] is built.
In this case a request to the web target is not made directly in the code, instead, the web target instance
is used to initialize a new EventSource.Builder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/media/sse/EventSource.Builder.html] instance that is used to build a new EventSource. The
choice of build() method is important, as it tells the EventSource.Builder to create a new
EventSource that is not automatically connected to the target. The connection is established only
later by manually invoking the eventSource.open() method. A custom EventListener [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/EventListener.html] implementation
is used to listen to and process incoming SSE events. The method readData(Class) says that the event
data should be de-serialized from a received InboundEvent [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/InboundEvent.html] instance into a String Java type. This method call
internally executes MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/ext/MessageBodyReader.html] which de-serializes the event data. This is similar to reading an entity
from the Response [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Response.html]
by readEntity(Class). The method readData can throw a ProcessingException [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ProcessingException.html].

The custom event source listener is registered in the event source via
EventSource.register(EventListener, String) method. The next method arguments
define the names of the events to receive and can be omitted. If names are defined, the listener will be
associated with the named events and will only invoked for events with a name from the set of defined
event names. It will not be invoked for events with any other name or for events without a name.

Important
It is a common mistake to think that unnamed events will be processed by listeners that are
registered to process events from a particular name set. That is NOT the case! Unnamed events
are only processed by listeners that are not name-bound. The same limitation applied to HTML5
Javascript SSE Client API supported by modern browsers.
After a connection to the server is opened by calling the open() method on the event source, the
eventSource starts listening to events. When an event named "message-to-client" comes,
the listener will be executed by the event source. If any other event comes (with a name different from
"message-to-client"), the registered listener is not invoked. Once the client is done with processing
and does not want to receive events anymore, it closes the connection by calling the close() method
on the event source.

The listener from the example above will print the following output:

message-to-client; Hello world 0!

message-to-client; Hello world 1!
message-to-client; Hello world 2!
message-to-client; Hello world 3!
message-to-client; Hello world 4!
message-to-client; Hello world 5!
message-to-client; Hello world 6!
message-to-client; Hello world 7!
message-to-client; Hello world 8!
message-to-client; Hello world 9!

When browsing through the Jersey SSE API documentation, you may have
noticed that the EventSource [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/
sse/EventSource.html] implements EventListener [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/media/sse/EventListener.html] and provides an empty implementation for the

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onEvent(InboundEvent inboundEvent) listener method. This adds more flexibility to the

Jersey client-side SSE API. Instead of defining and registering a separate event listener, in simple scenarios
you can also choose to derive directly from the EventSource and override the empty listener method
to handle the incoming events. This programming model is shown in the following example:

Example 15.5. Overriding EventSource.onEvent(InboundEvent) method

1 Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
2 .register(SseFeature.class).build();
3 WebTarget target = client.target("http://example.com/events");
4 EventSource eventSource = new EventSource(target) {
5 @Override
6 public void onEvent(InboundEvent inboundEvent) {
7 if ("message-to-client".equals(inboundEvent.getName())) {
8 System.out.println(inboundEvent.getName() + "; "
9 + inboundEvent.readData(String.class));
10 }
11 }
12 };
13 ...
14 eventSource.close();

The code above is very similar to the code in Example 15.4, “Registering EventListener with
EventSource”. In this example however, the EventSource is constructed directly using a single-
parameter constructor. This way, the connection to the SSE endpoint is by default automatically opened
at the event source creation. The implementation of the EventListener has been moved into the
overridden EventSource.onEvent(...) method. However, this time, the listener method will be
executed for all events - unnamed as well as with any name. Therefore the code checks the name whether
it is an event with the name "message-to-client" that we want to handle. Note that you can still register
additional EventListeners later on. The overridden method on the event source allows you to handle
messages even when no additional listeners are registered yet.

15.5.2.1. EventSource reconnect support

Starting in Jersey 2.3, the EventSource implementation supports automated recuperation from a
connection loss, including negotiation of delivery of any missed events based on the last received SSE
event id field value, provided this field is set by the server and the negotiation facility is supported by
the server. In case of a connection loss, the last received SSE event id field value is send in the Last-
Event-ID HTTP request header as part of a new connection request sent to the SSE endpoint. Upon a
receipt of such reconnect request, the SSE endpoint that supports this negotiation facility is expected to
replay all missed events.

Note
Note, that SSE lost event negotiation facility is a best-effort mechanism which does not provide
any guaranty that all events would be delivered without a loss. You should therefore not rely on
receiving every single event and design your client application code accordingly.

By default, when a connection the the SSE endpoint is lost, the event source will use a default delay before
attempting to reconnect to the SSE endpoint. The SSE endpoint can however control the client-side retry
delay by including a special retry field value in any event sent to the client. Jersey EventSource
implementation automatically tracks any received SSE event retry field values set by the endpoint and
adjusts the reconnect delay accordingly, using the last received retry field value as the new reconnect
delay.

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In addition to handling the standard connection losses, Jersey EventSource automatically deals with
any HTTP 503 Service Unavailable responses received from the SSE endpoint, that include a
Retry-After HTTP header with a valid value. The HTTP 503 + Retry-After technique is often
used by HTTP endpoints as a means of connection and traffic throttling. In case a HTTP 503 + Retry-
After response is received in return to a connection request from SSE endpoint, Jersey EventSource
will automatically schedule a reconnect attempt and use the received Retry-After HTTP header value
as a one-time override of the reconnect delay.

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16.1. Securing server
16.1.1. SecurityContext
Security information of a request is available by injecting a JAX-RS SecurityContext
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/SecurityContext.html] instance using
@Context [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Context.html] annotation.
The injected security context instance provides the equivalent of the functionality available
on HttpServletRequest [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html]
API. The injected security context depends on the actual Jersey application deployment. For example, for
a Jersey application deployed in a Servlet container, the Jersey SecurityContext will encapsulate
information from a security context retrieved from the Servlet request. In case of a Jersey application
deployed on a Grizzly server, the SecurityContext will return information retrieved from the Grizzly
request.

SecurityContext can be used in conjunction with sub-resource locators to return different resources
based on the specific roles a user principal is included in. For example, a sub-resource locator could return
a different resource if a user is a preferred customer:

Example 16.1. Using SecurityContext for a Resource Selection

1 @Path("basket")
2 public ShoppingBasketResource get(@Context SecurityContext sc) {
3 if (sc.isUserInRole("PreferredCustomer") {
4 return new PreferredCustomerShoppingBasketResource();
5 } else {
6 return new ShoppingBasketResource();
7 }
8 }

SecurityContext is inherently request-scoped, yet can be also injected into fields of singleton
resources and JAX-RS providers. In such case the proxy of the request-scoped SecurityContext will
be injected.

Example 16.2. Injecting SecurityContext into a singleton resource

1 @Path("resource")
2 @Singleton
3 public static class MyResource {
4 // Jersey will inject proxy of Security Context
5 @Context
6 SecurityContext securityContext;
7
8 @GET
9 public String getUserPrincipal() {
10 return securityContext.getUserPrincipal().getName();
11 }
12 }

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16.1.1.1. Initializing Security Context with Servlets

As described above, the SecurityContext by default (if not overwritten by a request filter) only
exposes security information from the underlying container. In the case you deploy a Jersey application
in a Servlet container, you need to configure the Servlet container security aspects (<security-
constraint>, <auth-constraint> and user to roles mappings) in order to be able to secure
requests via calls to to the JAX-RS SecurityContext.

16.1.1.2. Using Security Context in Container Request Filters

The SecurityContext can be directly retrieved from ContainerRequestContext [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/ContainerRequestContext.html] via
getSecurityContext() method. You can also replace the default SecurityContext in a request
context with a custom one using the setSecurityContext(SecurityContext) method. If
you set a custom SecurityContext instance in your ContainerRequestFilter [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/container/ContainerRequestFilter.html], this security context
instance will be used for injection into JAX-RS resource class fields. This way you can implement a
custom authentication filter that may setup your own SecurityContext to be used. To ensure the early
execution of your custom authentication request filter, set the filter priority to AUTHENTICATION using
constants from Priorities [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Priorities.html].
An early execution of you authentication filter will ensure that all other filters, resources, resource methods
and sub-resource locators will execute with your custom SecurityContext instance.

16.1.2. Authorization - securing resources

16.1.2.1. Security resources with web.xml
In cases where a Jersey application is deployed in a Servlet container you can rely only on the standard
Java EE Web application security mechanisms offered by the Servlet container and configurable via
application's web.xml descriptor. You need to define the <security-constraint> elements in the
web.xml and assign roles which are able to access these resources. You can also define HTTP methods
that are allowed to be executed. See the following example.

Example 16.3. Securing resources using web.xml

1 <security-constraint>
2 <web-resource-collection>
3 <url-pattern>/rest/admin/*</url-pattern>
4 </web-resource-collection>
5 <auth-constraint>
6 <role-name>admin</role-name>
7 </auth-constraint>
8 </security-constraint>
9 <security-constraint>
10 <web-resource-collection>
11 <url-pattern>/rest/orders/*</url-pattern>
12 </web-resource-collection>
13 <auth-constraint>
14 <role-name>customer</role-name>
15 </auth-constraint>
16 </security-constraint>
17 <login-config>

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18 <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
19 <realm-name>my-default-realm</realm-name>
20 </login-config>

The example secures two kinds of URI namespaces using the HTTP Basic Authentication. rest/
admin/* will be accessible only for user group "admin" and rest/orders/* will be accessible for
"customer" user group. This security configuration does not use JAX-RS or Jersey features at all as it
is enforced by the Servlet container even before a request reaches the Jersey application. Keeping these
security constrains up to date with your JAX-RS application might not be easy as whenever you change
the @Path [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Path.html] annotations on your
resource classes you may need to update also the web.xml security configurations to reflect the changed
JAX-RS resource paths. Therefore Jersey offers a more flexible solution based on placing standard Java
EE security annotations directly on JAX-RS resource classes and methods.

16.1.2.2. Securing JAX-RS resources with standard

javax.annotation.security annotations
With Jersey you can define the access to resources based on the user group using annotations. You can,
for example, define that only a user group "admin" can execute specific resource method. To do that you
firstly need to register RolesAllowedDynamicFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/filter/RolesAllowedDynamicFeature.html] as a provider. The following example
shows how to register the feature if your deployment is based on a ResourceConfig [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ResourceConfig.html].

Example 16.4. Registering RolesAllowedDynamicFeature using ResourceConfig

1 final ResourceConfig resourceConfig = new ResourceConfig(MyResource.class);

2 resourceConfig.register(RolesAllowedDynamicFeature.class);
3

Alternatively, typically when deploying your application to a Servlet container, you can
implement your JAX-RS Application [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/
Application.html] subclass by extending from the Jersey ResourceConfig and registering the
RolesAllowedDynamicFeature in the constructor:

Example 16.5. Registering RolesAllowedDynamicFeature by extending

ResourceConfig

1 public class MyApplication extends ResourceConfig {

2 public MyApplication() {
3 super(MyResource.class);
4 register(RolesAllowedDynamicFeature.class);
5 }
6 }

Once the feature is registered, you can use annotations from package javax.annotation.security
defined by JSR-250. See the following example.

Example 16.6. Applying javax.annotation.security to JAX-RS resource

methods.

1 @Path("/")

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2 @PermitAll
3 public class Resource {
4 @RolesAllowed("user")
5 @GET
6 public String get() { return "GET"; }
7
8 @RolesAllowed("admin")
9 @POST
10 public String post(String content) { return content; }
11
12 @Path("sub")
13 public SubResource getSubResource() {
14 return new SubResource();
15 }
16 }

The resource class Resource defined in the example is annotated with a @PermitAll [http://
docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/annotation/security/PermitAll.html] annotation. This means that all
methods in the class which do not override this annotation will be permitted for all user groups (no
restrictions are defined). In our example, the annotation will only apply to the getSubResource()
method as it is the only method that does not override the annotation by defining custom role-
based security settings using the @RolesAllowed [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/annotation/
security/RolesAllowed.html] annotation. @RolesAllowed annotations present on the other methods
define a role or a set of roles that are allowed to execute a particular method.

These Java EE security annotations are processed internally in the request filter registered using the Jersey
RolesAllowedDynamicFeature. The roles defined in the annotations are tested against current roles
set in the SecurityContext using the SecurityContext.isUserInRole(String role)
method. In case the caller is not in the role specified by the annotation, the HTTP 403 (Forbidden)
error response is returned.

16.2. Client Security

For details about client security please see the Client chapter. Jersey client allows to define parameters
of SSL communication using HTTPS protocol. You can also use jersey built-in authentication filters
which perform HTTP Basic Authentication or HTTP Digest Authentication. See the client chapter for more
details.

16.3. OAuth Support

OAuth is a specification that defines secure authentication model on behalf of another user. Two versions
of OAuth exists at the moment - OAuth 1 defined by OAuth 1.0 specification [http://tools.ietf.org/html/
rfc5849] and OAuth 2 defined by OAuth 2.0 specification [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749]. OAuth 2 is
the latest version and it is not backward compatible with OAuth 1 specification. OAuth in general is widely
used in popular social Web sites in order to grant access to a user account and associated resources for a
third party consumer (application). The consumer then usually uses RESTful Web Services to access the
user data. The following example describes a use case of the OAuth (similar for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2).
The example is simple and probably obvious for many developers but introduces terms that are used in
this documentation as well as in Jersey OAuth API documentation.

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The first party represents a user, in our case Adam, who is called in the OAuth terminology a Resource
Owner. Adam has an account on Twitter. Twitter represents the second party. This party is called a Service
Provider. Twitter offers a web interface that Adam uses to create new tweets, read tweets of others etc.
Now, Adam uses our new web site, HelloWorldWeb, which is a very simple web site that says Hello
World but it additionally displays the last tweet of the logged in user. To do so, our web site needs to
have access to the Twitter account of Adam. Our web site is a 3rd party application that wants to connect
to Twitter and get Adam's tweets. In OAuth, such party is called Consumer. Our Consumer would like to
use Twitter's RESTful APIs to get some data associated with Adam's Twitter account. In order to solve
this situation Adam could directly give his Twitter password to the HelloWorldWeb. This would however
be rather unsafe, especially if we do not know much about the authors of the application. If Adam would
give his password to HelloWorldWeb, he would have to deal with the associated security risks. First of
all, Adam would have to fully trust HelloWorldWeb that it will not misuse the full access to his Twitter
account. Next, if Adam would change his password, he would need to remember to give the new password
also to the HelloWorldWeb application. And at last, if Adam would like to revoke the HelloWorldWeb's
access to his Twitter account, he would need to change his password again. The OAuth protocol has been
devised to address all these challenges.

With OAuth, a resource owner (Adam) grants an access to a consumer (HelloWorldWeb) without giving
it his password. This access grant is achieved by a procedure called authorization flow. Authorization flow
is out of the scope of this documentation and its description can be found in the OAuth specification linked
above. The result of the authorization flow is an Access Token which is later used by the consumer to
authenticate against the service provider. While this brief description applies to both OAuth 1 and 2, note
that there are some differences in details between these two specifications.

Jersey OAuth is currently supported for the following use cases and OAuth versions:

• OAuth 1: Client (consumer) and server (service provider)

• OAuth 2: Client (consumer)

With client and server support there are two supported scenarios:

• Authorization flow

• Authentication with Access Token (support for authenticated requests)

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16.3.1. OAuth 1
OAuth 1 protocol is based on message signatures that are calculated using specific signature methods.
Signatures are quite complex and therefore are implemented in a separate module. The OAuth 1 Jersey
modules are (groupId:artifactId:description):

• org.glassfish.jersey.security:oauth1-client: provides client OAuth 1 support for

authorization flow and authentication

• org.glassfish.jersey.security:oauth1-server: provides server OAuth 1 support for

authorization flow, SPI for token management including authentication filter.

• org.glassfish.jersey.security:oauth1-signature : provides support for OAuth1

request signatures. This module is a dependency of previous two modules and as such it will be implicitly
included in your maven project. The module can be used as a standalone module but this will not be
needed in most of the use cases. You would do that if you wanted to implement your own OAuth support
and would not want to deal with implementing the complex signature algorithms.

16.3.1.1. Server
To add support for OAuth into your server-side application, add the following dependency to your
pom.xml:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.security</groupId>
<artifactId>oauth1-server</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

Again, there is no need to add a direct dependency to the signature module, it will be transitively included.

Let's now briefly go over the most important server Jersey OAuth APIs and SPIs:

• OAuth1ServerFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/oauth1/
OAuth1ServerFeature.html]: The feature which enables the OAuth 1 support on the server and registers
OAuth1Provider explained in the following point.

• OAuth1Provider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/oauth1/
OAuth1Provider.html]: Implementation of this SPI must be registered to the server runtime as a
standard provider. The implementation will be used to create request and access token, get consumer by
consumer key, etc. You can either implement your provider or use the default implementation provided
by Jersey by DefaultOAuth1Provider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
server/oauth1/DefaultOAuth1Provider.html].

• OAuth1ServerProperties [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
oauth1/OAuth1ServerProperties.html]: properties that can be used to configure the OAuth 1 support.

• OAuth1Consumer [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/oauth1/
OAuth1Consumer.html], OAuth1Token [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/server/oauth1/OAuth1Token.html]: classes that contain consumer key, request and access tokens.
You need to implement them only if you also implement the interface OAuth1Provider.

First step in enabling Jersey OAuth 1 support is to register a OAuth1ServerFeature instance

initialized with an instance of OAuth1Provider. Additionally, you may configure the Request Token
URI and Access Token URI - the endpoints accessible on the OAuth server that issue Request and Access

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Tokens. These endpoints are defined in the OAuth 1 specification and are contacted as part of the OAuth
authorization flow.

Next, when a client initiates the OAuth authorization flow, the provided implementation of
OAuth1Provider will be invoked as to create new tokens, get tokens and finally to store the issued
Access Token. If a consumer already has a valid Access Token and makes Authenticated Requests (with
OAuth 1 Authorization information in the HTTP header), the provider will be invoked to provide the
OAuth1Token for the Access Token information in the header.

16.3.1.2. Client
Note
OAuth client support in Jersey is almost identical for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2. As such, this chapter
provides useful information even for users that use OAuth 2 client support.

To add support for OAuth into your Jersey client application, add the following dependency to your
pom.xml:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.security</groupId>
<artifactId>oauth1-client</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

As mentioned earlier, there is no need to add a direct dependency to the signature module, it will be
transitively included.

OAuth 1 client support initially started as a code migration from Jersey 1.x. During the migration however
the API of was significantly revised. The high level difference compared to Jersey 1.x OAuth client
API is that the authorization flow is no longer part of a client OAuth filter. Authorization flow is now a
standalone utility and can be used without a support for subsequent authenticated requests. The support
for authenticated requests stays in the ClientRequestFilter but is not part of a public API anymore
and is registered by a Jersey OAuth Feature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
core/Feature.html].

The most important parts of the Jersey client OAuth API and SPI are explained here:

• OAuth1ClientSupport [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/oauth1/
OAuth1ClientSupport.html]: The main class which contains builder methods to build features that
enable the OAuth 1 support. Start with this class every time you need to add any OAuth 1 support to
the Jersey Client (build an Authorization flow or initialize client to perform authenticated requests).
The class contains a static method that returns an instance of OAuth1Builder [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/oauth1/OAuth1Builder.html] and also the class defines
request properties to influence behaviour of the authenticated request support.

• OAuth1AuthorizationFlow [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
oauth1/OAuth1AuthorizationFlow.html]: API that allows to perform the Authorization flow against
service provider. Implementation of this interface is a class that is used as a standalone utility and is not
part of the JAX-RS client. In other words, this is not a feature that should be registered into the client.

• AccessToken [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/oauth1/
AccessToken.html], ConsumerCredentials [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/oauth1/ConsumerCredentials.html]: Interfaces that define Access Token classes and
Consumer Credentials. Interfaces contain getters for public keys and secret keys of token and credentials.

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An example of how Jersey OAuth 1 client API is used can be found in the OAuth 1 Twitter Client Example
[https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/oauth-client-twitter]. The following code snippets
are extracted from the example and explain how to use the Jersey OAuth client API.

Before we start with any interaction with Twitter, we need to register our application on Twitter.
See the example README.TXT file for the instructions. As a result of the registration, we get the
consumer credentials that identify our application. Consumer credentials consist of consumer key and
consumer secret.

As a first step in our code, we need to perform the authorization flow, where the user grants us an access
to his/her Twitter client.

Example 16.7. Build the authorization flow utility

1 ConsumerCredentials consumerCredentials = new ConsumerCredentials(
2 "a846d84e68421b321a32d, "f13aed84190bc");
3 OAuth1AuthorizationFlow authFlow = OAuth1ClientSupport.builder(consumerCredenti
4 .authorizationFlow(
5 "http://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token",
6 "http://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token",
7 "http://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize")
8 .build();

Here we have built a OAuth1AuthorizationFlow utility component representing the OAuth 1

authorization flow, using OAuth1ClientSupport and OAuth1Builder API. The static builder
method accepts mandatory parameter with ConsumerCredentials. These are credentials earlier
issued by Twitter for our application. We have specified the Twitter OAuth endpoints where Request
Token, Access Token will be retrieved and Authorization URI to which we will redirect the user in order
to grant user's consent. Twitter will present an HTML page on this URI and it will ask the user whether
he/she would like us to access his/her account.

Now we can proceed with the OAuth authorization flow.

Example 16.8. Perform the OAuth Authorization Flow

1 String authorizationUri = authFlow.start();
2 // here we must direct the user to authorization uri to approve
3 // our application. The result will be verifier code (String).
4 AccessToken accessToken = authFlow.finish(verifier);

In the first line, we start the authorization flow. The method internally makes a request to the http://
api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token URL and retrieves a Request Token. Details of this
request can be found in the OAuth 1 specification. It then constructs a URI to which we must redirect
the user. The URI is based on Twitter's authorization URI (http://api.twitter.com/oauth/
authorize) and contains a Request Token as a query parameter. In the Twitter example, we have a
simple console application therefore we print the URL to the console and ask the user to open the URL
in a browser to approve the authorization of our application. Then the user gets a verifier and enters it
back to the console. However, if our application would be a web application, we would need to return a
redirection response to the user in order to redirect the user automatically to the authorizationUri.
For more information about server deployment, check our OAuth 2 Google Client Web Application
Example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/oauth2-client-google-webapp], where the
client is part of the web application (the client API for OAuth 2 is similar to OAuth 1).

Once we have a verifier, we invoke the method finish() on our OAuth1AuthorizationFlow

instance, which internally sends a request to an access token service URI (http://

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api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token) and exchanges the supplied verifier for a new valid

Access Token. At this point the authorization flow is finished and we can start using the retrieved
AccessToken to make authenticated requests. We can now create an instance of an OAuth
1 client Feature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Feature.html] using
OAuth1ClientSupport and pass it our accessToken. Another way is to use authFlow that
already contains the information about access token to create the feature instance for us:

Example 16.9. Authenticated requests

1 Feature feature = authFlow.getOAuth1Feature();
2 Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
3 .register(feature)
4 .build();

Once the feature is configured in the JAX-RS Client [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/

javax/ws/rs/client/Client.html] (or WebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/client/WebTarget.html]), all requests invoked from such Client (or WebTarget) instance will
automatically include an OAuth Authorization HTTP header (that contains also the OAuth signature).

Note that if you already have a valid Access Token (for example stored in the database for each of your
users), then you can skip the authorization flow steps and directly create the OAuth Feature configured
to use your Access Token.

Example 16.10. Build feature from Access Token

1 AccessToken storedToken = ...;
2 Feature filterFeature = OAuth1ClientSupport.builder(consumerCredentials)
3 .feature()
4 .accessToken(storedToken)
5 .build();

Here, the storedToken represents an AccessToken [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/

glassfish/jersey/client/oauth1/AccessToken.html] that your client application keeps stored e.g. in a
database.

Note that the OAuth feature builder API does not require the access token to be set. The reason
for it is that you might want to build a feature which would register the internal Jersey OAuth
ClientRequestFilter and other related providers but which would not initialize the OAuth
providers with a single fixed AccessToken [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/oauth1/AccessToken.html] instance. In such case you would need to specify a token for every
single request in the request properties. Key names and API documentation of these properties can be found
in OAuth1ClientSupport. Using this approach, you can have a single, OAuth enabled instance of
a JAX-RS Client (or WebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/
WebTarget.html]) and use it to make authenticated requests on behalf of multiple users. Note that you can
use the aforementioned request properties even if the feature has been initialized with an AccessToken
to override the default access token information for particular requests, even though it is probably not a
common use case.

The following code shows how to set an access token on a single request using the Jersey OAuth properties.

Example 16.11. Specifying Access Token on a Request.

1 Response resp =
2 client.target("http://my-serviceprovider.org/rest/foo/bar")
3 .request()

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4 .property(OAuth1ClientSupport.OAUTH_PROPERTY_ACCESS_TOKEN, storedToken)
5 .get();

OAuth1AuthorizationFlow internally uses a Client instance to communicate with the OAuth

server. For this a new client instance is automatically created by default. You can supply your
instance of a Client to be used for the authorization flow requests (for performance and/or resource
management reasons) using OAuth1Builder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/oauth1/OAuth1Builder.html] methods.

16.3.1.2.1. Public/Private Keys for RSA-SHA1 signature method

Follow the steps below in case the outgoing requests sent from client to server have to be signed with
RSA-SHA1 signature method instead of the default one (HMAC-SHA1).

Example 16.12. Creating Public/Private RSA-SHA1 keys

1 $ # Create the private key.
2 $ openssl genrsa -out private.key 2048
3 $ # Convert the key into PKCS8 format.
4 $ openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -in private.key -nocrypt
5 $ # Extract the public key.
6 $ openssl rsa -in private.key -pubout

The output of the second command can be used as a consumer secret to sign the outgoing request:
new ConsumerCredentials("consumer-key", CONSUMER_PRIVATE_KEY). Public key
obtained from the third command can be then used on the service provider to verify the signed data.

For more advanced cases (i.e. other formats of keys) a custom OAuth1SignatureMethod should be
implemented and used.

16.3.2. OAuth 2 Support

At the moment Jersey supports OAuth 2 only on the client side.

16.3.2.1. Client
Note
Note: It is suggested to read the section Section 16.3.1.2, “Client” before this section. Support
for OAuth on the client is very similar for both OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 and general principles are
valid for both OAuth versions as such.

Note
OAuth 2 support is in a Beta [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
Beta.html] state and as such the API is subject to change.

To add support for Jersey OAuth 2 Client API into your application, add the following dependency to
your pom.xml:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.security</groupId>
<artifactId>oauth2-client</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>

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</dependency>

OAuth 2, in contrast with OAuth 1, is not a strictly defined protocol, rather a framework. OAuth 2
specification defines many extension points and it is up to service providers to implement these details and
document these implementations for the service consumers. Additionally, OAuth 2 defines more than one
authorization flow. The authorization flow similar to the flow from OAuth 1 is called the Authorization
Code Grant Flow. This is the flow currently supported by Jersey (Jersey currently does not support other
flows). Please refer to the OAuth 2.0 specification [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749] for more details
about authorization flows. Another significant change compared to OAuth 1 is that OAuth 2 is not based
on signatures and secret keys and therefore for most of the communication SSL needs to be used (i.e.
the requests must be made through HTTPS). This means that all OAuth 2 endpoint URIs must use the
https scheme.

Due to the fact that OAuth 2 does not define a strict protocol, it is not possible to provide a single, universal
pre-configured tool interoperable with all providers. Jersey OAuth 2 APIs allows a lot of extensibility
via parameters sent in each requests. Jersey currently provides two pre-configured authorization flow
providers - for Google and Facebook.

The most important entry points of Jersey client OAuth 2 API and SPI are explained below:

• OAuth2ClientSupport [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/oauth2/
OAuth2ClientSupport.html]: The main class which contains builder methods to build features that
enable the OAuth 2 support. Start with this class every time you need to add any OAuth 2 support to the
Jersey Client (build an Authorization flow or initialize client to perform authenticated requests). The
class contains also methods to get authorization flow utilities adjusted for Facebook or Google.

• OAuth2CodeGrantFlow [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
oauth2/OAuth2CodeGrantFlow.html]: API that allows to perform the authorization flow defined as
Authorization Code Grant Flow in the OAuth 2 specification. Implementation of this interface is a class
that is used as a standalone utility and is not part of the JAX-RS client. In other words, this is not a
feature that should be registered into the client.

• ClientIdentifier [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/oauth2/
ClientIdentifier.html]: Identifier of the client issued by the Service Provider for the client. Similar to
ConsumerCredentials [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/oauth1/
ConsumerCredentials.html] from OAuth 1 client support.

• OAuth2Parameters [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/oauth2/
OAuth2Parameters.html]: Defines parameters that are used in requests during the authorization flow.
These parameters can be used to override some of the parameters used in different authorization phases.

• TokenResult [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/oauth2/
TokenResult.html]: Contains result of the authorization flow. One of the result values is the Access
Token. It can additionally contain the expiration time of the Access Token and Refresh Token that can
be used to get new Access Token.

The principle of performing the authorization flow with Jersey is similar to OAuth 1. Check the OAuth 1
Twitter Client Example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/oauth-client-twitter] which
utilizes Jersey client support for OAuth 2 to get Google Tasks of the user. The application is a web
application that uses redirection to forward the user to the authorization URI.

The following code is an example of how to build and use OAuth 2 authorization flow.

Example 16.13. Building OAuth 2 Authorization Flow.

1 OAuth2CodeGrantFlow.Builder builder =

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2 OAuth2ClientSupport.authorizationCodeGrantFlowBuilder(clientId,
3 "https://example.com/oauth/authorization",
4 "https://example.com/oauth/token");
5 OAuth2CodeGrantFlow flow = builder
6 .property(OAuth2CodeGrantFlow.Phase.AUTHORIZATION, "readOnly", "true")
7 .scope("contact")
8 .build();
9 String authorizationUri = flow.start();
10
11 // Here we must redirect the user to the authorizationUri
12 // and let the user approve an access for our app.
13
14 ...
15
16 // We must handle redirection back to our web resource
17 // and extract code and state from the request
18 final TokenResult result = flow.finish(code, state);
19 System.out.println("Access Token: " + result.get);

In the code above we create an OAuth2CodeGrantFlow from an authorization URI and an access
token URI. We have additionally set a readOnly parameter to true and assigned the parameter to
the authorization phase. This is the way, how you can extend the standard flow with additional service
provider-specific parameters. In this case, the readOnly=true parameter will be added as a query
parameter to the authorization uri returned from the method flow.start(). If we would specify
ACCESS_TOKEN_REQUEST as a phase, then the parameter would have been added to the request when
flow.finish() is invoked. See javadocs for more information. The parameter readOnly is not part
of the OAuth 2 specification and is used in the example for demonstration of how to configure the flow for
needs of specific service providers (in this case, the readOnly param would be described in the service
provider's documentation).

Between the calls to flow.start() and flow.finish(), a user must be redirected to the
authorization URI. This means that the code will not be executed in a single method and the finish part will
be invoked as a handler of redirect request back to our web from authorization URI. Check the OAuth 2
Google Client Web Application Example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/oauth2-
client-google-webapp] for more details on this approach.

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17.1. WADL introduction
Jersey contains support for Web Application Description Language (WADL) [http://wadl.java.net/].
WADL is a XML description of a deployed RESTful web application. It contains model of the deployed
resources, their structure, supported media types, HTTP methods and so on. In a sense, WADL is a
similar to the WSDL (Web Service Description Language) which describes SOAP web services. WADL
is however specifically designed to describe RESTful Web resources.

Important
Since Jersey 2.5.1 the WADL generated by default is WADL in shorter form without additional
extension resources (OPTIONS methods, WADL resource). In order to get full WADL use the
query parameter detail=true.

Let's start with the simple WADL example. In the example there is a simple CountryResource
deployed and we request a wadl of this resource. The context root path of the application is http://
localhost:9998.

Example 17.1. A simple WADL example - JAX-RS resource definition

1 @Path("country/{id}")
2 public static class CountryResource {
3
4 private CountryService countryService;
5
6 public CountryResource() {
7 // init countryService
8 }
9
10 @GET
11 @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
12 public Country getCountry(@PathParam("countryId") int countryId) {
13 return countryService.getCountry(countryId);
14 }
15 }

The WADL of a Jersey application that contains the resource above can be requested by a HTTP GET
request to http://localhost:9998/application.wadl. The Jersey will return a response with
a WADL content similar to the one in the following example:

1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

2 <application xmlns="http://wadl.dev.java.net/2009/02">
3 <doc xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/" jersey:generatedBy="Jersey: 2.5
4 <grammars/>
5 <resources base="http://localhost:9998/">
6 <resource path="country/{id}">
7 <param xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" type="xs:int" st
8 <method name="GET" id="getCountry">
9 <response>
10 <representation mediaType="application/xml"/>

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11 </response>
12 </method>
13 </resource>
14 </resources>
15 </application>

The returned WADL is a XML that contains element resource with path country/{id}. This
resource has one inner method element with http method as attribute, name of java method and its
produced representation. This description corresponds to defined java resource. Now let's look at more
complex example.

The previous WADL does not actually contain all resources exposed in our API. There are other
resources that are available and are hidden in the previous WADL. The previous WADL shows only
resources that are provided by the user. In the following example, the WADL is generated using
query parameter detail: http://localhost:9998/application.wadl?detail. Note that
usage of http://localhost:9998/application.wadl?detail=true is also valid. This
will produce the WADL with all resource available in the application:

Example 17.2. A simple WADL example - WADL content

1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
2 <application xmlns="http://wadl.dev.java.net/2009/02">
3 <doc xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/" jersey:generatedBy="Jersey: 2.5
4 <doc xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/" jersey:hint="To get simplified
5 <grammars/>
6 <resources base="http://localhost:9998/">
7 <resource path="country/{id}">
8 <param xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" type="xs:int" st
9 <method name="GET" id="getCountry">
10 <response>
11 <representation mediaType="application/xml"/>
12 </response>
13 </method>
14 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
15 <request>
16 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
17 </request>
18 <response>
19 <representation mediaType="application/vnd.sun.wadl+xml"/>
20 </response>
21 <jersey:extended xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/">true</j
22 </method>
23 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
24 <request>
25 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
26 </request>
27 <response>
28 <representation mediaType="text/plain"/>
29 </response>
30 <jersey:extended xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/">true</j
31 </method>
32 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
33 <request>
34 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>

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35 </request>
36 <response>
37 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
38 </response>
39 <jersey:extended xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/">true</j
40 </method>
41 </resource>
42 <resource path="application.wadl">
43 <method name="GET" id="getWadl">
44 <response>
45 <representation mediaType="application/vnd.sun.wadl+xml"/>
46 <representation mediaType="application/xml"/>
47 </response>
48 <jersey:extended xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/">true</j
49 </method>
50 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
51 <request>
52 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
53 </request>
54 <response>
55 <representation mediaType="text/plain"/>
56 </response>
57 <jersey:extended xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/">true</j
58 </method>
59 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
60 <request>
61 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
62 </request>
63 <response>
64 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
65 </response>
66 <jersey:extended xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/">true</j
67 </method>
68 <resource path="{path}">
69 <param xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" type="xs:str
70 <method name="GET" id="geExternalGrammar">
71 <response>
72 <representation mediaType="application/xml"/>
73 </response>
74 <jersey:extended xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/">tru
75 </method>
76 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
77 <request>
78 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
79 </request>
80 <response>
81 <representation mediaType="text/plain"/>
82 </response>
83 <jersey:extended xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/">tru
84 </method>
85 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
86 <request>
87 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
88 </request>

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89 <response>
90 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
91 </response>
92 <jersey:extended xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/">tru
93 </method>
94 <jersey:extended xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/">true</j
95 </resource>
96 <jersey:extended xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/">true</jerse
97 </resource>
98 </resources>
99 </application>
100

In the example above the returned application WADL is shown in full. WADL schema is defined by
the WADL specification, so let's look at it in more details. The root WADL document element is the
application. It contains global information about the deployed JAX-RS application. Under this
element there is a nested element resources which contains zero or more resource elements.
Each resource element describes a single deployed resource. In our example, there are only two
root resources - "country/{id}" and "application.wadl". The "application.wadl"
resource is the resource that was just requested in order to receive the application WADL document. Even
though WADL support is an additional feature in Jersey it is still a resource deployed in the resource
model and therefore it is itself present in the returned WADL document. The first resource element
with the path="country/{id}" is the element that describes our custom deployed resource. This
resource contains a GET method and three OPTIONS methods. The GET method is our getCountry()
method defined in the sample. There is a method name in the id attribute and @Produces [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Produces.html] is described in the response/
representation WADL element. OPTIONS methods are the methods that are automatically added
by Jersey to each resource. There is an OPTIONS method returning "text/plain" media type, that
will return a response with a string entity containing the list of methods deployed on this resource
(this means that instead of WADL you can use this OPTIONS method to get similar information in a
textual representation). Another OPTIONS method returning */* will return a response with no entity
and Allow header that will contain list of methods as a String. The last OPTIONS method producing
"application/vnd.sun.wadl+xml" returns a WADL description of the resource "country/
{id}". As you can see, all OPTIONS methods return information about the resource to which the HTTP
OPTIONS request is made.

Second resource with a path "application.wadl" has, again, similar OPTIONS methods and one GET
method which return this WADL. There is also a sub-resource with a path defined by path param
{path}. This means that you can request a resource on the URI http://localhost:9998/
application.wadl/something. This is used only to return an external grammar if there is any
attached. Such a external grammar can be for example an XSD schema of the response entity which if
the response entity is a JAXB bean. An external grammar support via Jersey extended WADL support is
described in sections below.

All resource that were added in this second example into the WADL contains element extended. This
means that this resource is not a part of a core RESTful API and is rather a helper resource. If you need to
mark any your own resource are extended, annotate is with @ExtendedResource [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/model/ExtendedResource.html]. Note that there might
be methods visible in the default simple WADL even the user has not added them. This is for example the
case of MVC added methods which were added by ModelProcessor [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/model/ModelProcessor.html] but are still intended to be used by the
client to achieve their primary use case of getting formatted data.

Let's now send an HTTP OPTIONS request to "country/{id}" resource using the the curl
command:

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curl -X OPTIONS -H "Allow: application/vnd.sun.wadl+xml" \

-v http://localhost:9998/country/15

We should see a WADL returned similar to this one:

Example 17.3. OPTIONS method returning WADL

1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
2 <application xmlns="http://wadl.dev.java.net/2009/02">
3 <doc xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/"
4 jersey:generatedBy="Jersey: 2.0-SNAPSHOT ${buildNumber}"/>
5 <grammars/>
6 <resources base="http://localhost:9998/">
7 <resource path="country/15">
8 <method name="GET" id="getCountry">
9 <response>
10 <representation mediaType="application/xml"/>
11 </response>
12 </method>
13 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
14 <request>
15 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
16 </request>
17 <response>
18 <representation mediaType="application/vnd.sun.wadl+xml"/>
19 </response>
20 </method>
21 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
22 <request>
23 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
24 </request>
25 <response>
26 <representation mediaType="text/plain"/>
27 </response>
28 </method>
29 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
30 <request>
31 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
32 </request>
33 <response>
34 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
35 </response>
36 </method>
37 </resource>
38 </resources>
39 </application>

The returned WADL document has the standard WADL structure that we saw in the WADL document
returned for the whole Jersey application earlier. The main difference here is that the only resource is
the resource to which the OPTIONS HTTP request was sent. The resource has now path "country/15"
and not "country/{id}" as the path parameter {id} was already specified in the request to this
concrete resource.

Another, a more complex WADL example is shown in the next example.

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Example 17.4. More complex WADL example - JAX-RS resource definition

1 @Path("customer/{id}")
2 public static class CustomerResource {
3 private CustomerService customerService;
4
5 @GET
6 public Customer get(@PathParam("id") int id) {
7 return customerService.getCustomerById(id);
8 }
9
10 @PUT
11 public Customer put(Customer customer) {
12 return customerService.updateCustomer(customer);
13 }
14
15 @Path("address")
16 public CustomerAddressSubResource getCustomerAddress(@PathParam("id") int i
17 return new CustomerAddressSubResource(id);
18 }
19
20 @Path("additional-info")
21 public Object getAdditionalInfoSubResource(@PathParam("id") int id) {
22 return new CustomerAddressSubResource(id);
23 }
24
25 }
26
27
28 public static class CustomerAddressSubResource {
29 private final int customerId;
30 private CustomerService customerService;
31
32 public CustomerAddressSubResource(int customerId) {
33 this.customerId = customerId;
34 this.customerService = null; // init customer service here
35 }
36
37 @GET
38 public String getAddress() {
39 return customerService.getAddressForCustomer(customerId);
40 }
41
42 @PUT
43 public void updateAddress(String address) {
44 customerService.updateAddressForCustomer(customerId, address);
45 }
46
47 @GET
48 @Path("sub")
49 public String getDeliveryAddress() {
50 return customerService.getDeliveryAddressForCustomer(customerId);
51 }
52 }

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The GET request to http://localhost:9998/application.wadl will return the following

WADL document:

Example 17.5. More complex WADL example - WADL content

1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
2 <application xmlns="http://wadl.dev.java.net/2009/02">
3 <doc xmlns:jersey="http://jersey.java.net/"
4 jersey:generatedBy="Jersey: 2.0-SNAPSHOT ${buildNumber}"/>
5 <grammars/>
6 <resources base="http://localhost:9998/">
7 <resource path="customer/{id}">
8 <param xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
9 type="xs:int" style="template" name="id"/>
10 <method name="GET" id="get">
11 <response/>
12 </method>
13 <method name="PUT" id="put">
14 <response/>
15 </method>
16 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
17 <request>
18 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
19 </request>
20 <response>
21 <representation mediaType="application/vnd.sun.wadl+xml"/>
22 </response>
23 </method>
24 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
25 <request>
26 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
27 </request>
28 <response>
29 <representation mediaType="text/plain"/>
30 </response>
31 </method>
32 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
33 <request>
34 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
35 </request>
36 <response>
37 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
38 </response>
39 </method>
40 <resource path="additional-info">
41 <param xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
42 type="xs:int" style="template" name="id"/>
43 </resource>
44 <resource path="address">
45 <param xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
46 type="xs:int" style="template" name="id"/>
47 <method name="GET" id="getAddress">
48 <response/>
49 </method>

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50 <method name="PUT" id="updateAddress"/>

51 <resource path="sub">
52 <method name="GET" id="getDeliveryAddress">
53 <response/>
54 </method>
55 </resource>
56 </resource>
57 </resource>
58 <resource path="application.wadl">
59 <method name="GET" id="getWadl">
60 <response>
61 <representation mediaType="application/vnd.sun.wadl+xml"/>
62 <representation mediaType="application/xml"/>
63 </response>
64 </method>
65 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
66 <request>
67 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
68 </request>
69 <response>
70 <representation mediaType="text/plain"/>
71 </response>
72 </method>
73 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
74 <request>
75 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
76 </request>
77 <response>
78 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
79 </response>
80 </method>
81 <resource path="{path}">
82 <param xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
83 type="xs:string" style="template" name="path"/>
84 <method name="GET" id="geExternalGrammar">
85 <response>
86 <representation mediaType="application/xml"/>
87 </response>
88 </method>
89 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
90 <request>
91 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
92 </request>
93 <response>
94 <representation mediaType="text/plain"/>
95 </response>
96 </method>
97 <method name="OPTIONS" id="apply">
98 <request>
99 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
100 </request>
101 <response>
102 <representation mediaType="*/*"/>
103 </response>

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104 </method>
105 </resource>
106 </resource>
107 </resources>
108 </application>

The resource with path="customer/{id}" is similar to the country resource from the
previous example. There is a path parameter which identifies the customer by id. The resource
contains 2 user-declared methods and again auto-generated OPTIONS methods added by Jersey. THe
resource declares 2 sub-resource locators which are represented in the returned WADL document as
nested resource elements. Note that the sub-resource locator getCustomerAddress() returns
a type CustomerAddressSubResource in the method declaration and also in the WADL there is
a resource element for such a sub resource with full internal description. The second method
getAdditionalInfoSubResource() returns only an Object in the method declaration. While
this is correct from the JAX-RS perspective as the real returned type can be computed from a request
information, it creates a problem for WADL generator because WADL is generated based on the static
configuration of the JAX-RS application resources. The WADL generator does not know what type would
be actually returned to a request at run time. That is the reason why the nested resource element
with path="additional-info" does not contain any information about the supported resource
representations.

The CustomerAddressSubResource sub-resource described in the nested element <resource

path="address"> does not contain an OPTIONS method. While these methods are in fact generated
by Jersey for the sub-resource, Jersey WADL generator does not currently support adding these
methods to the sub-resource description. This should be addressed in the near future. Still, there are
two user-defined resource methods handling HTTP GET and PUT requests. The sub-resource method
getDeliveryAddress() is represented as a separate nested resource with path="sub". Should
there be more sub-resource methods defined with path="sub", then all these method descriptions would
be placed into the same resource element. In other words, sub-resource methods are grouped in WADL
as sub-resources based on their path value.

17.2. Configuration
WADL generation is enabled in Jersey by default. This means that OPTIONS methods are added by default
to each resource and an auto-generated /application.wadl resource is deployed too. To override
this default behavior and disable WADL generation in Jersey, setup the configuration property in your
application:

jersey.config.server.wadl.disableWadl=true

This property can be setup in a web.xml if the Jersey application is deployed in the servlet with web.xml
or the property can be returned from the Application [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html]. getProperties(). See Deployment chapter for more information
on setting the application configuration properties in various deployments.

WADL support in Jersey is implemented via ModelProcessor [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/

jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/model/ModelProcessor.html] extension. This implementation enhances
the application resource model by adding the WADL providing resources. WADL ModelProcessor
priority value is high (i.e. the priority is low) as it should be executed as one of the last model processors.
Therefore, any ModelProcessor executed before will not see WADL extensions in the resource
model. WADL handling resource model extensions (resources and OPTIONS resource methods) are not
added to the application resource model if there is already a matching resource or a resource method
detected in the model. In other words, if you define for example your own OPTIONS method that would
produce "application.wadl" response content, this method will not be overridden by WADL

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model processor. See Resource builder chapter for more information on ModelProcessor extension
mechanism.

17.3. Extended WADL support

Please note that the API of extended WADL support is going to be changed in one of the future
releases of Jersey 2.x (see below).

Jersey supports extension of WADL generation called extended WADL. Using the extended WADL
support you can enhance the generated WADL document with additional information, such as resource
method javadoc-based documentation of your REST APIs, adding general documentation, adding external
grammar support, or adding any custom WADL extension information.

The documentation of the existing extended WADL can be found here: Extended WADL in Jersey
1 [https://wikis.oracle.com/display/Jersey/WADL]. This contains description of an extended WADL
generation in Jersey 1.x that is currently supported also by Jersey 2.x.

Again, note that the extended WADL in Jersey 2.x is NOT the intended final version and
API is going to be changed. The existing set of features and functionality will be preserved but
the APIs will be significantly re-designed to support additional use cases. This impacts mainly
the APIs of WadlGenerator [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/wadl/
WadlGenerator.html], WadlGeneratorConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/server/wadl/config/WadlGeneratorConfig.html] as well as any related classes. The API changes
may impact your code if you are using a custom WadlGenerator or plan to implement one.

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Chapter 18. Bean Validation Support
Validation is a process of verifying that some data obeys one or more pre-defined constraints. This
chapter describes support for Bean Validation [http://beanvalidation.org/] in Jersey in terms of the needed
dependencies, configuration, registration and usage. For more detailed description on how JAX-RS
provides native support for validating resource classes based on the Bean Validation refer to the chapter
in the JAX-RS spec [http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=339].

18.1. Bean Validation Dependencies

Bean Validation support in Jersey is provided as an extension module and needs to be mentioned explicitly
in your pom.xml file (in case of using Maven):

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-bean-validation</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

Note
If you're not using Maven make sure to have also all the transitive dependencies (see jersey-
bean-validation [https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-bean-validation/
dependencies.html]) on the classpath.
This module depends directly on Hibernate Validator [http://www.hibernate.org/subprojects/
validator.html] which provides a most commonly used implementation of the Bean Validation API spec.

If you want to use a different implementation of the Bean Validation API, use standard Maven mechanisms
to exclude Hibernate Validator from the modules dependencies and add a dependency of your own.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-bean-validation</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>

18.2. Enabling Bean Validation in Jersey

As stated in Section 4.3, “Auto-Discoverable Features”, Jersey Bean Validation is one of the modules
where you don't need to explicitly register it's Features (ValidationFeature [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/validation/ValidationFeature.html]) on the server as it's
features are automatically discovered and registered when you add the jersey-bean-validation
module to your classpath. There are three Jersey specific properties that could disable automatic discovery
and registration of Jersey Bean Validation integration module:

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• CommonProperties.FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
CommonProperties.html#FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE]

• ServerProperties.FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE]

• ServerProperties.BV_FEATURE_DISABLE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/ServerProperties.html#BV_FEATURE_DISABLE]

Note
Jersey does not support Bean Validation on the client at the moment.

18.3. Configuring Bean Validation Support

Configuration of Bean Validation support in Jersey is twofold - there are few specific properties
that affects Jersey behaviour (e.g. sending validation error entities to the client) and then there
is ValidationConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/validation/
ValidationConfig.html] class that configures Validator [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/
spec/1.1/api/javax/validation/Validator.html] used for validating resources in JAX-RS application.

To configure Jersey specific behaviour you can use the following properties:

ServerProperties.BV_DISABLE_VALIDATE_ON_EXECUTABLE_OVERRIDE_CHECK
Disables @ValidateOnExecution check. More on this is
[https://jersey.java.net/ described in Section 18.5, “@ValidateOnExecution”.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#BV_DISABLE_VALIDATE_ON_EXECUTABLE_OVERRIDE_CHECK]

ServerProperties.BV_SEND_ERROR_IN_RESPONSE
Enables sending validation errors in response entity to the client.
[https://jersey.java.net/ More on this in Section 18.7.1, “ValidationError”.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#BV_SEND_ERROR_IN_RESPONSE]

Example 18.1. Configuring Jersey specific properties for Bean Validation.

1 new ResourceConfig()
2 // Now you can expect validation errors to be sent to the client.
3 .property(ServerProperties.BV_SEND_ERROR_IN_RESPONSE, true)
4 // @ValidateOnExecution annotations on subclasses won't cause errors.
5 .property(ServerProperties.BV_DISABLE_VALIDATE_ON_EXECUTABLE_OVERRIDE_CHECK
6 // Further configuration of ResourceConfig.
7 .register( ... );

Customization of the Validator used in validation of resource classes/methods can be done using
ValidationConfig class and exposing it via ContextResolver<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-
javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/ContextResolver.html] mechanism as shown in Example 18.2, “Using
ValidationConfig to configure Validator.”. You can set custom instances for the following
interfaces from the Bean Validation API:

• MessageInterpolator [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/validation/
MessageInterpolator.html] - interpolates a given constraint violation message.

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• TraversableResolver [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/validation/
TraversableResolver.html] - determines if a property can be accessed by the Bean Validation provider.

• ConstraintValidatorFactory [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/
validation/ConstraintValidatorFactory.html] - instantiates a ConstraintValidator instance based
off its class. Note that by setting a custom ConstraintValidatorFactory you may loose
injection of available resources/providers at the moment. See Section 18.6, “Injecting” how to handle
this.

• ParameterNameProvider [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/validation/
ParameterNameProvider.html] - provides names for method and constructor parameters.

Example 18.2. Using ValidationConfig to configure Validator.

/**
* Custom configuration of validation. This configuration defines custom:
* <ul>
* <li>ConstraintValidationFactory - so that validators are able to inject Jers
* <li>ParameterNameProvider - if method input parameters are invalid, this cla
* instead of the default ones ({@code arg0, arg1, ..})</li>
* </ul>
*/
public class ValidationConfigurationContextResolver implements ContextResolver<Vali

@Context
private ResourceContext resourceContext;

@Override
public ValidationConfig getContext(final Class<?> type) {
final ValidationConfig config = new ValidationConfig();
config.setConstraintValidatorFactory(resourceContext.getResource(InjectingC
config.setParameterNameProvider(new CustomParameterNameProvider());
return config;
}

/**
* See ContactCardTest#testAddInvalidContact.
*/
private class CustomParameterNameProvider implements ParameterNameProvider {

private final ParameterNameProvider nameProvider;

public CustomParameterNameProvider() {
nameProvider = Validation.byDefaultProvider().configure().getDefaultPar
}

@Override
public List<String> getParameterNames(final Constructor<?> constructor) {
return nameProvider.getParameterNames(constructor);
}

@Override
public List<String> getParameterNames(final Method method) {
// See ContactCardTest#testAddInvalidContact.

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if ("addContact".equals(method.getName())) {
return Arrays.asList("contact");
}
return nameProvider.getParameterNames(method);
}
}
}

Register this class in your app:

final Application application = new ResourceConfig()

// Validation.
.register(ValidationConfigurationContextResolver.class)
// Further configuration.
.register( ... );

Note
This code snippet has been taken from Bean Validation example [https://github.com/jersey/
jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/bean-validation-webapp].

18.4. Validating JAX-RS resources and

methods
JAX-RS specification states that constraint annotations are allowed in the same locations as the following
annotations: @MatrixParam, @QueryParam, @PathParam, @CookieParam, @HeaderParam
and @Context, except in class constructors and property setters. Specifically, they are allowed in resource
method parameters, fields and property getters as well as resource classes, entity parameters and resource
methods (return values). Jersey provides support for validation (see following sections) annotated input
parameters and return value of the invoked resource method as well as validation of resource class
(class constraints, field constraints) where this resource method is placed. Jersey does not support, and
doesn't validate, constraints placed on constructors and Bean Validation groups (only Default group is
supported at the moment).

18.4.1. Constraint Annotations

The JAX-RS Server API provides support for extracting request values and
mapping them into Java fields, properties and parameters using annotations such
as @HeaderParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/HeaderParam.html],
@QueryParam [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/QueryParam.html], etc. It
also supports mapping of the request entity bodies into Java objects via non-annotated parameters (i.e.,
parameters without any JAX-RS annotations).

The Bean Validation specification supports the use of constraint annotations as a way of declaratively
validating beans, method parameters and method returned values. For example, consider resource class
from Example 18.3, “Constraint annotations on input parameters” augmented with constraint annotations.

Example 18.3. Constraint annotations on input parameters

@Path("/")
class MyResourceClass {

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@POST
@Consumes("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
public void registerUser(
@NotNull @FormParam("firstName") String firstName,
@NotNull @FormParam("lastName") String lastName,
@Email @FormParam("email") String email) {
...
}
}

The annotations @NotNull and @Email impose additional constraints on the form parameters
firstName, lastName and email. The @NotNull constraint is built-in to the Bean Validation API;
the @Email constraint is assumed to be user defined in the example above. These constraint annotations
are not restricted to method parameters, they can be used in any location in which JAX-RS binding
annotations are allowed with the exception of constructors and property setters.

Rather than using method parameters, the MyResourceClass shown above could have been written as
in Example 18.4, “Constraint annotations on fields”.

Example 18.4. Constraint annotations on fields

@Path("/")
class MyResourceClass {

@NotNull
@FormParam("firstName")
private String firstName;

@NotNull
@FormParam("lastName")
private String lastName;

private String email;

@FormParam("email")
public void setEmail(String email) {
this.email = email;
}

@Email
public String getEmail() {
return email;
}

...
}

Note that in this version, firstName and lastName are fields initialized via injection and email is a
resource class property. Constraint annotations on properties are specified in their corresponding getters.

Constraint annotations are also allowed on resource classes. In addition to annotating fields and properties,
an annotation can be defined for the entire class. Let us assume that @NonEmptyNames validates that
one of the two name fields in MyResourceClass is provided. Using such an annotation, the example
above can be extended to look like Example 18.5, “Constraint annotations on class”

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Example 18.5. Constraint annotations on class

@Path("/")
@NonEmptyNames
class MyResourceClass {

@NotNull
@FormParam("firstName")
private String firstName;

@NotNull
@FormParam("lastName")
private String lastName;

private String email;

...
}

Constraint annotations on resource classes are useful for defining cross-field and cross-property
constraints.

18.4.2. Annotation constraints and Validators

Annotation constraints and validators are defined in accordance with the Bean Validation specification.
The @Email annotation used in Example 18.4, “Constraint annotations on fields” is defined
using the Bean Validation @Constraint [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/
javax/validation/Constraint.html] meta-annotation, see Example 18.6, “Definition of a constraint
annotation”.

Example 18.6. Definition of a constraint annotation

@Target({ METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER })
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Constraint(validatedBy = EmailValidator.class)
public @interface Email {

String message() default "{com.example.validation.constraints.email}";

Class<?>[] groups() default {};

Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default {};

}

The @Constraint annotation must include a reference to the validator class that will be used to validate
decorated values. The EmailValidator class must implement ConstraintValidator<Email,
T> where T is the type of values being validated, as described in Example 18.7, “Validator
implementation.”.

Example 18.7. Validator implementation.

public class EmailValidator implements ConstraintValidator<Email, String> {

public void initialize(Email email) {

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...
}

public boolean isValid(String value, ConstraintValidatorContext context) {

...
}
}

Thus, EmailValidator applies to values annotated with @Email that are of type String. Validators
for other Java types can be defined for the same constraint annotation.

18.4.3. Entity Validation

Request entity bodies can be mapped to resource method parameters. There are two ways in which these
entities can be validated. If the request entity is mapped to a Java bean whose class is decorated with Bean
Validation annotations, then validation can be enabled using @Valid [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/
beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/validation/Valid.html] as in Example 18.8, “Entity validation”.

Example 18.8. Entity validation

@StandardUser
class User {

@NotNull
private String firstName;

...
}

@Path("/")
class MyResourceClass {

@POST
@Consumes("application/xml")
public void registerUser(@Valid User user) {
...
}
}

In this case, the validator associated with @StandardUser (as well as those for non-class level
constraints like @NotNull) will be called to verify the request entity mapped to user.

Alternatively, a new annotation can be defined and used directly on the resource method parameter
(Example 18.9, “Entity validation 2”).

Example 18.9. Entity validation 2

@Path("/")
class MyResourceClass {

@POST
@Consumes("application/xml")
public void registerUser(@PremiumUser User user) {
...

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}
}

In the example above, @PremiumUser rather than @StandardUser will be used to validate the request
entity. These two ways in which validation of entities can be triggered can also be combined by including
@Valid in the list of constraints. The presence of @Valid will trigger validation of all the constraint
annotations decorating a Java bean class.

Response entity bodies returned from resource methods can be validated in a similar manner by annotating
the resource method itself. To exemplify, assuming both @StandardUser and @PremiumUser are
required to be checked before returning a user, the getUser method can be annotated as shown in
Example 18.10, “Response entity validation”.

Example 18.10. Response entity validation

@Path("/")
class MyResourceClass {

@GET
@Path("{id}")
@Produces("application/xml")
@Valid @PremiumUser
public User getUser(@PathParam("id") String id) {
User u = findUser(id);
return u;
}

...
}

Note that @PremiumUser is explicitly listed and @StandardUser is triggered by the presence of the
@Valid annotation - see definition of User class earlier in this section.

18.4.4. Annotation Inheritance

The rules for inheritance of constraint annotation are defined in Bean Validation specification. It is worth
noting that these rules are incompatible with those defined by JAX-RS. Generally speaking, constraint
annotations in Bean Validation are cumulative (can be strengthen) across a given type hierarchy while
JAX-RS annotations are inherited or, overridden and ignored.

For Bean Validation annotations Jersey follows the constraint annotation rules defined in the Bean
Validation specification.

18.5. @ValidateOnExecution
According to Bean Validation specification, validation is enabled by default only for the so called
constrained methods. Getter methods as defined by the Java Beans specification are not constrained
methods, so they will not be validated by default. The special annotation @ValidateOnExecution
can be used to selectively enable and disable validation. For example, you can enable validation on method
getEmail shown in Example 18.11, “Validate getter on execution”.

Example 18.11. Validate getter on execution

@Path("/")

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class MyResourceClass {

@Email
@ValidateOnExecution
public String getEmail() {
return email;
}

...
}

The default value for the type attribute of @ValidateOnExecution is IMPLICIT which results in
method getEmail being validated.

Note
According to Bean Validation specification @ValidateOnExecution cannot
be overridden once is declared on a method (i.e. in subclass/
sub-interface) and in this situations a ValidationException should
be raised. This default behaviour can be suppressed by setting
ServerProperties.BV_DISABLE_VALIDATE_ON_EXECUTABLE_OVERRIDE_CHECK
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#BV_DISABLE_VALIDATE_ON_EXECUTABLE_OVERRIDE_CHECK]
property (Jersey specific) to true.

18.6. Injecting
Jersey allows you to inject registered resources/providers into
your ConstraintValidator [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/validation/
ConstraintValidator.html] implementation and you can inject Configuration [http://docs.jboss.org/
hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/validation/Configuration.html], ValidatorFactory [http://
docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/validation/ValidatorFactory.html] and
Validator [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/validation/Validator.html] as
required by Bean Validation spec.

Note
Injected Configuration [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/
validation/Configuration.html], ValidatorFactory [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/
beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/validation/ValidatorFactory.html] and Validator [http://
docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/validation/Validator.html] do not
inherit configuration provided by ValidationConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/validation/ValidationConfig.html] and need to be configured
manually.
Injection of JAX-RS components into ConstraintValidators is supported via a custom
ConstraintValidatorFactory provided by Jersey. An example is shown in Example 18.12,
“Injecting UriInfo into a ConstraintValidator”.

Example 18.12. Injecting UriInfo into a ConstraintValidator

public class EmailValidator implements ConstraintValidator<Email, String> {

@Context

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private UriInfo uriInfo;

public void initialize(Email email) {

...
}

public boolean isValid(String value, ConstraintValidatorContext context) {

// Use UriInfo.

...
}
}

Using a custom ConstraintValidatorFactory [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/

api/javax/validation/ConstraintValidatorFactory.html] of your own disables registration of the one
provided by Jersey and injection support for resources/providers (if needed) has to be provided
by this new implementation. Example 18.13, “Support for injecting Jersey's resources/providers via
ConstraintValidatorFactory.” shows how this can be achieved.

Example 18.13. Support for injecting Jersey's resources/providers via

ConstraintValidatorFactory.
public class InjectingConstraintValidatorFactory implements ConstraintValidatorFact

@Context
private ResourceContext resourceContext;

@Override
public <T extends ConstraintValidator<?, ?>> T getInstance(final Class<T> key)
return resourceContext.getResource(key);
}

@Override
public void releaseInstance(final ConstraintValidator<?, ?> instance) {
// NOOP
}
}

Note
This behaviour may likely change in one of the next version of Jersey to remove the need
of manually providing support for injecting resources/providers from Jersey in your own
ConstraintValidatorFactory implementation code.

18.7. Error Reporting

Bean Validation specification defines a small hierarchy of exceptions (they all
inherit from ValidationException [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/
validation/ValidationException.html]) that could be thrown during initialization of validation
engine or (for our case more importantly) during validation of input/output
values (ConstraintViolationException [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/beanvalidation/spec/1.1/api/javax/
validation/ConstraintViolationException.html]). If a thrown exception is a subclass of
ValidationException except ConstraintViolationException then this exception is

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mapped to a HTTP response with status code 500 (Internal Server Error). On the other hand, when a
ConstraintViolationException is throw two different status code would be returned:

• 500 (Internal Server Error)

If the exception was thrown while validating a method return type.

• 400 (Bad Request)

Otherwise.

18.7.1. ValidationError
By default, (during mapping ConstraintViolationExceptions) Jersey doesn't return any entities
that would include validation errors to the client. This default behaviour could be changed by
enabling ServerProperties.BV_SEND_ERROR_IN_RESPONSE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ServerProperties.html#BV_SEND_ERROR_IN_RESPONSE] property
in your application (Example 18.1, “Configuring Jersey specific properties for Bean Validation.”).
When this property is enabled then our custom ExceptionMapper<E extends Throwable> [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/ExceptionMapper.html] (that is handling
ValidationExceptions) would transform ConstraintViolationException(s)
into ValidationError [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/validation/
ValidationError.html](s) and set this object (collection) as the new response entity which Jersey is able
to sent to the client. Four MediaTypes are currently supported when sending ValidationErrors to
the client:

• text/plain

• text/html

• application/xml

• application/json

Note
Note: You need to register one of the JSON (JAXB) providers (e.g. MOXy) to marshall
validation errors to JSON.

Let's take a look at ValidationError [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/

server/validation/ValidationError.html] class to see which properties are send to the client:

@XmlRootElement
public final class ValidationError {

private String message;

private String messageTemplate;

private String path;

private String invalidValue;

...
}

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The message property is the interpolated error message, messageTemplate represents

a non-interpolated error message (or key from your constraint definition e.g.
{javax.validation.constraints.NotNull.message}), path contains information about
the path in the validated object graph to the property holding invalid value and invalidValue is the
string representation of the invalid value itself.

Here are few examples of ValidationError messages sent to client:

Example 18.14. ValidationError to text/plain

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Content-Length: 114
Content-Type: text/plain
Vary: Accept
Server: Jetty(6.1.24)

Contact with given ID does not exist. (path = ContactCardResource.getContact.<retur

Example 18.15. ValidationError to text/html

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Content-Length: ...
Content-Type: text/plain
Vary: Accept
Server: Jetty(6.1.24)

<div class="validation-errors">
<div class="validation-error">
<span class="message">Contact with given ID does not exist.</span>
(
<span class="path">
<strong>path</strong>
= ContactCardResource.getContact.<return value>
</span>
,
<span class="invalid-value">
<strong>invalidValue</strong>
= null
</span>
)
</div>
</div>

Example 18.16. ValidationError to application/xml

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Content-Length: ...
Content-Type: text/plain
Vary: Accept
Server: Jetty(6.1.24)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<validationErrors>
<validationError>

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<message>Contact with given ID does not exist.</message>

<messageTemplate>{contact.does.not.exist}</messageTemplate>
<path>ContactCardResource.getContact.&lt;return value&gt;</path>
</validationError>
</validationErrors>

Example 18.17. ValidationError to application/json

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Content-Length: 174
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept
Server: Jetty(6.1.24)

[ {
"message" : "Contact with given ID does not exist.",
"messageTemplate" : "{contact.does.not.exist}",
"path" : "ContactCardResource.getContact.<return value>"
} ]

18.8. Example
To see a complete working example of using Bean Validation (JSR-349) with Jersey refer to the Bean
Validation Example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/bean-validation-webapp].

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Chapter 19. Entity Data Filtering
Support for Entity Filtering in Jersey introduces a convenient facility for reducing the amount of data
exchanged over the wire between client and server without a need to create specialized data view
components. The main idea behind this feature is to give you APIs that will let you to selectively filter out
any non-relevant data from the marshalled object model before sending the data to the other party based
on the context of the particular message exchange. This way, only the necessary or relevant portion of the
data is transferred over the network with each client request or server response, without a need to create
special facade models for transferring these limited subsets of the model data.

Entity filtering feature allows you to define your own entity-filtering rules for your entity classes based
on the current context (e.g. matched resource method) and keep these rules in one place (directly in your
domain model). With Jersey entity filtering facility it is also possible to assign security access rules to
entity classes properties and property accessors.

We will first explain the main concepts and then we will explore the entity filtering feature topics from
a perspective of basic use-cases,

• Section 19.3, “Using custom annotations to filter entities”

• Section 19.4, “Role-based Entity Filtering using (javax.annotation.security) annotations”

• Section 19.5, “Entity Filtering based on dynamic and configurable query parameters”

as well as some more complex ones.

• Section 19.6, “Defining custom handling for entity-filtering annotations”

Note
Jersey entity filtering feature is supported via Jersey extension modules listed in Section 19.8,
“Modules with support for Entity Data Filtering”.

19.1. Enabling and configuring Entity Filtering

in your application
Entity Filtering support in Jersey is provided as an extension module and needs to be mentioned explicitly
in your pom.xml file (in case of using Maven):

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-entity-filtering</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

Note
If you're not using Maven make sure to have also all the transitive dependencies (see jersey-
entity-filtering [https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-entity-filtering/
dependencies.html]) on the classpath.

The entity-filtering extension module provides three Features which you can register into server/client
runtime in prior to use Entity Filtering in an application:

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• EntityFilteringFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/
filtering/EntityFilteringFeature.html]

Filtering based on entity-filtering annotations (or i.e. external configuration file) created using
@EntityFiltering [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/filtering/
EntityFiltering.html] meta-annotation.

• SecurityEntityFilteringFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
message/filtering/SecurityEntityFilteringFeature.html]

Filtering based on security (javax.annotation.security) and entity-filtering annotations.

• SelectableEntityFilteringFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
message/filtering/SelectableEntityFilteringFeature.html]

Filtering based on dynamic and configurable query parameters.

If you want to use both entity-filtering annotations and security annotations for entity data filtering
it is enough to register SecurityEntityFilteringFeature as this feature registers also
EntityFilteringFeature.

Entity-filtering currently recognizes one property that can be passed into the Configuration [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Configuration.html] instance (client/server):

• EntityFilteringFeature.ENTITY_FILTERING_SCOPE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/message/filtering/EntityFilteringFeature.html#ENTITY_FILTERING_SCOPE] -
"jersey.config.entityFiltering.scope"

Defines one or more annotations that should be used as entity-filtering scope when reading/writing an
entity.

Note
Processing of entity-filtering annotations to create an entity-filtering scope is defined by
following: "Request/Resource entity annotations" > "Configuration" >
"Resource method/class annotations" (on server).

You can configure entity-filtering on server (basic + security examples) as follows:

Example 19.1. Registering and configuring entity-filtering feature on server.

1 new ResourceConfig()
2 // Set entity-filtering scope via configuration.
3 .property(EntityFilteringFeature.ENTITY_FILTERING_SCOPE, new Annotation[] {
4 // Register the EntityFilteringFeature.
5 .register(EntityFilteringFeature.class)
6 // Further configuration of ResourceConfig.
7 .register( ... );

Example 19.2. Registering and configuring entity-filtering feature with security

annotations on server.
1 new ResourceConfig()
2 // Set entity-filtering scope via configuration.
3 .property(EntityFilteringFeature.ENTITY_FILTERING_SCOPE, new Annotation[] {
4 // Register the SecurityEntityFilteringFeature.

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5 .register(SecurityEntityFilteringFeature.class)
6 // Further configuration of ResourceConfig.
7 .register( ... );

Example 19.3. Registering and configuring entity-filtering feature based on

dynamic and configurable query parameters.
1 new ResourceConfig()
2 // Set query parameter name for dynamic filtering
3 .property(SelectableEntityFilteringFeature.QUERY_PARAM_NAME, "select")
4 // Register the SelectableEntityFilteringFeature.
5 .register(SelectableEntityFilteringFeature.class)
6 // Further configuration of ResourceConfig.
7 .register( ... );

Use similar steps to register entity-filtering on client:

Example 19.4. Registering and configuring entity-filtering feature on client.

1 final ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig()
2 // Set entity-filtering scope via configuration.
3 .property(EntityFilteringFeature.ENTITY_FILTERING_SCOPE, new Annotation[] {
4 // Register the EntityFilteringFeature.
5 .register(EntityFilteringFeature.class)
6 // Further configuration of ClientConfig.
7 .register( ... );
8
9 // Create new client.
10 final Client client = ClientClientBuilder.newClient(config);
11
12 // Use the client.

19.2. Components used to describe Entity

Filtering concepts
In the next section the entity-filtering features will be illustrated on a project-tracking application that
contains three classes in it's domain model and few resources (only Project resource will be shown
in this chapter). The full source code for the example application can be found in Jersey Entity Filtering
example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/entity-filtering].

Suppose there are three domain model classes (or entities) in our model: Project, User and Task
(getters/setter are omitted for brevity).

Example 19.5. Project

1 public class Project {
2
3 private Long id;
4
5 private String name;
6
7 private String description;
8

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9 private List<Task> tasks;

10
11 private List<User> users;
12
13 // getters and setters
14 }

Example 19.6. User

1 public class User {
2
3 private Long id;
4
5 private String name;
6
7 private String email;
8
9 private List<Project> projects;
10
11 private List<Task> tasks;
12
13 // getters and setters
14 }

Example 19.7. Task

1 public class Task {
2
3 private Long id;
4
5 private String name;
6
7 private String description;
8
9 private Project project;
10
11 private User user;
12
13 // getters and setters
14 }

To retrieve the entities from server to client, we have created also a couple of JAX-RS resources from
whose the ProjectsResource is shown as example.

Example 19.8. ProjectsResource

1 @Path("projects")
2 @Produces("application/json")
3 public class ProjectsResource {
4
5 @GET
6 @Path("{id}")
7 public Project getProject(@PathParam("id") final Long id) {
8 return getDetailedProject(id);

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9 }
10
11 @GET
12 public List<Project> getProjects() {
13 return getDetailedProjects();
14 }
15 }

19.3. Using custom annotations to filter entities

Entity filtering via annotations is based on an @EntityFiltering [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/filtering/EntityFiltering.html] meta-annotation. This meta-annotation
is used to identify entity-filtering annotations that can be then attached to

• domain model classes (supported on both, server and client sides), and

• resource methods / resource classes (only on server side)

An example of entity-filtering annotation applicable to a class, field or method can be seen in Example 19.9,
“ProjectDetailedView” below.

Example 19.9. ProjectDetailedView

1 @Target({ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.FIELD})
2 @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
3 @Documented
4 @EntityFiltering
5 public @interface ProjectDetailedView {
6
7 /**
8 * Factory class for creating instances of {@code ProjectDetailedView} anno
9 */
10 public static class Factory
11 extends AnnotationLiteral<ProjectDetailedView>
12 implements ProjectDetailedView {
13
14 private Factory() {
15 }
16
17 public static ProjectDetailedView get() {
18 return new Factory();
19 }
20 }
21 }

Since creating annotation instances directly in Java code is not trivial, it is a good practice to provide
an inner annotation Factory class in each custom filtering annotation, through which new instances of
the annotation can be directly created. The annotation factory class can be created by extending the HK2
AnnotationLiteral class and implementing the annotation interface itself. It should also provide a
static factory method that will create and return a new instance of the Factory class when invoked. Such
annotation instances can be then passed to the client and server run-times to define or override entity-
filtering scopes.

By placing an entity-filtering annotation on an entity (class, fields, getters or setters) we define a so-called
entity-filtering scope for the entity. The purpose of entity-filtering scope is to identify parts of the domain

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model that should be processed when the model is to be sent over the wire in a particular entity-filtering
scope. We distinguish between:

• global entity-filtering scope (defined by placing filtering annotation on a class itself), and

• local entity-filtering scope (defined by placing filtering annotation on a field, getter or setter)

Unannotated members of a domain model class are automatically added to all existing global entity-
filtering scopes. If there is no explicit global entity-filtering scope defined on a class a default scope is
created for this class to group these members.

Creating entity-filtering scopes using custom entity-filtering annotations in domain model classes is
illustrated in the following examples.

Example 19.10. Annotated Project

1 public class Project {
2
3 private Long id;
4
5 private String name;
6
7 private String description;
8
9 @ProjectDetailedView
10 private List<Task> tasks;
11
12 @ProjectDetailedView
13 private List<User> users;
14
15 // getters and setters
16 }

Example 19.11. Annotated User

1 public class User {
2
3 private Long id;
4
5 private String name;
6
7 private String email;
8
9 @UserDetailedView
10 private List<Project> projects;
11
12 @UserDetailedView
13 private List<Task> tasks;
14
15 // getters and setters
16 }

Example 19.12. Annotated Task

1 public class Task {

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2
3 private Long id;
4
5 private String name;
6
7 private String description;
8
9 @TaskDetailedView
10 private Project project;
11
12 @TaskDetailedView
13 private User user;
14
15 // getters and setters
16 }

As you can see in the examples above, we have defined 3 separate scopes using
@ProjectDetailedView, @UserDetailedView and @TaskDetailedView annotations and
we have applied these scopes selectively to certain fields in the domain model classes.

Once the entity-filtering scopes are applied to the parts of a domain model, the entity filtering facility
(when enabled) will check the active scopes when the model is being sent over the wire, and filter out all
parts from the model for which there is no active scope set in the given context. Therefore, we need a way
how to control the scopes active in any given context in order to process the model data in a certain way
(e.g. expose the detailed view). We need to tell the server/client runtime which entity-filtering scopes we
want to apply. There are 2 ways how to do this for client-side and 3 ways for server-side:

• Out-bound client request or server response programmatically created with entity-filtering annotations
that identify the scopes to be applied (available on both, client and server)

• Property identifying the applied scopes passed through Configuration [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-

javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Configuration.html] (available on both, client and server)

• Entity-filtering annotations identifying the applied scopes attached to a resource method or class (server-
side only)

When the multiple approaches are combined, the priorities of calculating the applied scopes are as follows:
Entity annotations in request or response > Property passed through
Configuration > Annotations applied to a resource method or class.

In a graph of domain model objects, the entity-filtering scopes are applied to the root node as well as
transitively to all the child nodes. Fields and child nodes that do not match at least a single active scope are
filtered out. When the scope matching is performed, annotations applied to the domain model classes and
fields are used to compute the scope for each particular component of the model. If there are no annotations
on the class or it's fields, the default scope is assumed. During the filtering, first, the annotations on root
model class and it's fields are considered. For all composite fields that have not been filtered out, the
annotations on the referenced child class and it's fields are considered next, and so on.

19.3.1. Server-side Entity Filtering

To pass entity-filtering annotations via Response [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Response.html] returned from a resource method you can leverage
the Response.ResponseBuilder#entity(Object, Annotation[]) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Response.ResponseBuilder.html#entity(java.lang.Object,
java.lang.annotation.Annotation[])] method. The next example illustrates this approach. You will also

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see why every custom entity-filtering annotation should contain a factory for creating instances of the
annotation.

Example 19.13. ProjectsResource - Response entity-filtering annotations

1 @Path("projects")
2 @Produces("application/json")
3 public class ProjectsResource {
4
5 @GET
6 public Response getProjects(@QueryParam("detailed") final boolean isDetaile
7 return Response
8 .ok()
9 .entity(new GenericEntity<List<Project>>(EntityStore.getProject
10 isDetailed ? new Annotation[]{ProjectDetailedView.Facto
11 .build();
12 }
13 }

Annotating a resource method / class is typically easier although it is less flexible and may require more
resource methods to be created to cover all the alternative use case scenarios. For example:

Example 19.14. ProjectsResource - Entity-filtering annotations on methods

1 @Path("projects")
2 @Produces("application/json")
3 public class ProjectsResource {
4
5 @GET
6 public List<Project> getProjects() {
7 return getDetailedProjects();
8 }
9
10 @GET
11 @Path("detailed")
12 @ProjectDetailedView
13 public List<Project> getDetailedProjects() {
14 return EntityStore.getProjects();
15 }
16 }

To see how entity-filtering scopes can be applied using a Configuration property, see the
Example 19.1, “Registering and configuring entity-filtering feature on server.” example.

When a Project model from the example above is requested in a scope represented by
@ProjectDetailedView entity-filtering annotation, the Project model data sent over the wire
would contain:

• Project - id, name, description, tasks, users

• Task - id, name, description

• User - id, name, email

Or, to illustrate this in JSON format:

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1 {
2 "description" : "Jersey is the open source (under dual CDDL+GPL license) JAX
3 "id" : 1,
4 "name" : "Jersey",
5 "tasks" : [ {
6 "description" : "Entity Data Filtering",
7 "id" : 1,
8 "name" : "ENT_FLT"
9 }, {
10 "description" : "OAuth 1 + 2",
11 "id" : 2,
12 "name" : "OAUTH"
13 } ],
14 "users" : [ {
15 "email" : "[email protected]",
16 "id" : 1,
17 "name" : "Jersey Robot"
18 } ]
19 }

For the default entity-filtering scope the filtered model would look like:

• Project - id, name, description

Or in JSON format:

1 {
2 "description" : "Jersey is the open source (under dual CDDL+GPL license) JAX
3 "id" : 1,
4 "name" : "Jersey"
5 }

19.3.2. Client-side Entity Filtering

As mentioned above you can define applied entity-filtering scopes using a property set either in the client
run-time Configuration (see Example 19.4, “Registering and configuring entity-filtering feature on
client.”) or by passing the entity-filtering annotations during a creation of an individual request to be sent
to server.

Example 19.15. Client - Request entity-filtering annotations

1 ClientBuilder.newClient(config)
2 .target(uri)
3 .request()
4 .post(Entity.entity(project, new Annotation[] {ProjectDetailedView.Factory.

You can use the mentioned method with client injected into a resource as well.

Example 19.16. Client - Request entity-filtering annotations

1 @Path("clients")
2 @Produces("application/json")
3 public class ClientsResource {
4
5 @Uri("projects")

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6 private WebTarget target;

7
8 @GET
9 public List<Project> getProjects() {
10 return target.request()
11 .post(Entity.entity(project, new Annotation[] {ProjectDetailedView.
12 }
13 }

19.4. Role-based Entity Filtering using

(javax.annotation.security) annotations
Filtering the content sent to the client (or server) based on the authorized security roles is a commonly
required use case. By registering SecurityEntityFilteringFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/filtering/SecurityEntityFilteringFeature.html] you can leverage the
Jersey Entity Filtering facility in connection with standard javax.annotation.security
annotations exactly the same way as you would with custom entity-filtering annotations described in
previous chapters. Supported security annotations are:

• @PermitAll [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/annotation/security/PermitAll.html],

• @RolesAllowed [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/annotation/security/RolesAllowed.html],
and

• @DenyAll [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/annotation/security/DenyAll.html]

Although the mechanics of the Entity Data Filtering feature used for the security annotation-based filtering
is the same as with the entity-filtering annotations, the processing of security annotations differs in a few
important aspects:

• Custom SecurityContext [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/

SecurityContext.html] should be set by a container request filter in order to use @RolesAllowed for
role-based filtering of domain model data (server-side)

• There is no need to provide entity-filtering (or security) annotations on resource methods in order to
define entity-filtering scopes for @RolesAllowed that is applied to the domain model components,
as all the available roles for the current user are automatically determined using the information from
the provided SecurityContext (server-side only).

Note
Instances of security annotations (to be used for programmatically defined scopes
either on client or server) can be created using one of the methods in the
SecurityAnnotations [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/
filtering/SecurityAnnotations.html] factory class that is part of the Jersey Entity Filtering API.

19.5. Entity Filtering based on dynamic and

configurable query parameters
Filtering the content sent to the client (or server) dynamically based on query parameters is another
commonly required use case. By registering SelectableEntityFilteringFeature [https://jersey.java.net/

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apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/filtering/SelectableEntityFilteringFeature.html] you
can leverage the Jersey Entity Filtering facility in connection with query parameters exactly the same way
as you would with custom entity-filtering annotations described in previous chapters.

Example 19.17. Sever - Query Parameter driven entity-filtering

1 @XmlRootElement
2 public class Address {
3
4 private String streetAddress;
5
6 private String region;
7
8 private PhoneNumber phoneNumber;
9 }

Query parameters are supported in comma delimited "dot notation" style similar to BeanInfo objects
and Spring path expressions. As an example, the following URL: http://jersey.example.com/
addresses/51234?select=region,streetAddress may render only the address's region and
street address properties as in the following example:

Example 19.18.
1 {
2 "region" : "CA",
3 "streetAddress" : "1234 Fake St."
4 }

19.6. Defining custom handling for entity-

filtering annotations
To create a custom entity-filtering annotation with special handling, i.e. an field aggregator annotation
used to annotate classes like the one in Example 19.19, “Entity-filtering annotation with custom meaning”
it is, in most cases, sufficient to implement and register the following SPI contracts:

• EntityProcessor [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/filtering/
spi/EntityProcessor.html]

Implementations of this SPI are invoked to process entity class and it's members. Custom
implementations can extend from AbstractEntityProcessor [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/filtering/spi/AbstractEntityProcessor.html].

• ScopeResolver [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/filtering/spi/
ScopeResolver.html]

Implementations of this SPI are invoked to retrieve entity-filtering scopes from an array of provided
annotations.

Example 19.19. Entity-filtering annotation with custom meaning

1 @Target({ElementType.TYPE})
2 @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
3 @EntityFiltering

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4 public @interface FilteringAggregator {

5
6 /**
7 * Entity-filtering scope to add given fields to.
8 */
9 Annotation filteringScope();
10
11 /**
12 * Fields to be a part of the entity-filtering scope.
13 */
14 String[] fields();
15 }

19.7. Supporting Entity Data Filtering in custom

entity providers or frameworks
To support Entity Data Filtering in custom entity providers (e.g. as in Example 19.20, “Entity Data Filtering
support in MOXy JSON binding provider”), it is sufficient in most of the cases to implement and register
the following SPI contracts:

• ObjectProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/filtering/spi/
ObjectProvider.html]

To be able to obtain an instance of a filtering object model your provider understands and can act on.
The implementations can extend AbstractObjectProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/message/filtering/spi/AbstractObjectProvider.html].

• ObjectGraphTransformer [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/
filtering/spi/ObjectGraphTransformer.html]

To transform a read-only generic representation of a domain object model graph to be processed

into an entity-filtering object model your provider understands and can act on. The implementations
can extend AbstractObjectProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
message/filtering/spi/AbstractObjectProvider.html].

Example 19.20. Entity Data Filtering support in MOXy JSON binding provider
1 @Singleton
2 public class FilteringMoxyJsonProvider extends ConfigurableMoxyJsonProvider {
3
4 @Inject
5 private Provider<ObjectProvider<ObjectGraph>> provider;
6
7 @Override
8 protected void preWriteTo(final Object object, final Class<?> type, final T
9 final MediaType mediaType, final MultivaluedMap<S
10 final Marshaller marshaller) throws JAXBException
11 super.preWriteTo(object, type, genericType, annotations, mediaType, htt
12
13 // Entity Filtering.
14 if (marshaller.getProperty(MarshallerProperties.OBJECT_GRAPH) == null)
15 final Object objectGraph = provider.get().getFilteringObject(generi
16

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17 if (objectGraph != null) {
18 marshaller.setProperty(MarshallerProperties.OBJECT_GRAPH, objec
19 }
20 }
21 }
22
23 @Override
24 protected void preReadFrom(final Class<Object> type, final Type genericType
25 final MediaType mediaType, final MultivaluedMap<
26 final Unmarshaller unmarshaller) throws JAXBExce
27 super.preReadFrom(type, genericType, annotations, mediaType, httpHeader
28
29 // Entity Filtering.
30 if (unmarshaller.getProperty(MarshallerProperties.OBJECT_GRAPH) == null
31 final Object objectGraph = provider.get().getFilteringObject(generi
32
33 if (objectGraph != null) {
34 unmarshaller.setProperty(MarshallerProperties.OBJECT_GRAPH, obj
35 }
36 }
37 }
38 }

19.8. Modules with support for Entity Data

Filtering
List of modules from Jersey workspace that support Entity Filtering:

• MOXy

• Jackson (2.x)

In order to use Entity Filtering in mentioned modules you need to explicitly

register either EntityFilteringFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
message/filtering/EntityFilteringFeature.html], SecurityEntityFilteringFeature [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/message/filtering/SecurityEntityFilteringFeature.html] or
SelectableEntityFilteringFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
message/filtering/SelectableEntityFilteringFeature.html] to activate Entity Filtering for particular module.

19.9. Examples
To see a complete working examples of entity-filtering feature refer to the:

• Entity Filtering example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/entity-filtering]

• Entity Filtering example (with security annotations) [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/

examples/entity-filtering-security]

• Entity Filtering example (based on dynamic and configurable query parameters) [https://github.com/
jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/entity-filtering-selectable]

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Chapter 20. MVC Templates
Jersey provides an extension to support the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. In the context
of Jersey components, the Controller from the MVC pattern corresponds to a resource class or method,
the View to a template bound to the resource class or method, and the model to a Java object (or a Java
bean) returned from a resource method (Controller).

Note
Some of the passages/examples from this chapter have been taken from MVCJ [https://
blogs.oracle.com/sandoz/entry/mvcj] blog article written by Paul Sandoz.

In Jersey 2, the base MVC API consists of two classes (org.glassfish.jersey.server.mvc

package) that can be used to bind model to view (template), namely Viewable [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/Viewable.html] and @Template [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/Template.html]. These classes
determine which approach (explicit/implicit) you would be taking when working with Jersey MVC
templating support.

20.1. Viewable
In this approach a resource method explicitly returns a reference to a view template and the data model to
be used. For this purpose the Viewable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
server/mvc/Viewable.html] class has been introduced in Jersey 1 and is also present (under a different
package) in Jersey 2. A simple example of usage can be seen in Example 20.1, “Using Viewable in a
resource class”.

Example 20.1. Using Viewable in a resource class

package com.example;

@Path("foo")
public class Foo {

@GET
public Viewable get() {
return new Viewable("index.foo", "FOO");
}
}

In this example, the Foo JAX-RS resource class is the controller and the Viewable instance
encapsulates the provided data model (FOO string) and a named reference to the associated view template
(index.foo).

Tip
All HTTP methods may return Viewable instances. Thus a POST method may return a template
reference to a template that produces a view as a result of processing an HTML Form [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Form.html].

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20.2. @Template
20.2.1. Annotating Resource methods
There is no need to use Viewable every time you want to bind a model to a template. To make
the resource method more readable (and to avoid verbose wrapping of a template reference and model
into Viewable) you can simply annotate a resource method with @Template [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/Template.html] annotation. An updated example,
using @Template, from previous section is shown in Example 20.2, “Using @Template on a resource
method” example.

Example 20.2. Using @Template on a resource method

package com.example;

@Path("foo")
public class Foo {

@GET
@Template(name = "index.foo")
public String get() {
return "FOO";
}
}

In this example, the Foo JAX-RS resource class is still the controller as in previous section but the MVC
model is now represented by the return value of annotated resource method.

The processing of such a method is then essentially the same as if the return type of the method was
an instance of the Viewable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/
Viewable.html] class. If a method is annotated with @Template and is also returning a Viewable
instance then the values from the Viewable instance take precedence over those defined in the
annotation. Producible media types are for both cases, Viewable and @Template, determined by the
method or class level @Produces annotation.

20.2.2. Annotating Resource classes

A resource class can have templates implicitly associated with it via @Template [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/Template.html] annotation. For example, take a
look at the resource class listing in Example 20.3, “Using @Template on a resource class”.

Example 20.3. Using @Template on a resource class

@Path("foo")
@Template
public class Foo {

public String getFoo() {

return "FOO";
}
}

The example relies on Jersey MVC conventions a lot and requires more explanation as such. First of all,
you may have noticed that there is no resource method defined in this JAX-RS resource. Also, there is no

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template reference defined. In this case, since the @Template annotation placed on the resource class
does not contain any information, the default relative template reference index will be used (for more
on this topic see Section 20.3, “Absolute vs. Relative template reference”). As for the missing resource
methods, a default @GET method will be automatically generated by Jersey for the Foo resource (which is
the MVC Controller now). The implementation of the generated resource method performs the equivalent
of the following explicit resource method:

@GET
public Viewable get() {
return new Viewable("index", this);
}

You can see that the resource class serves in this case also as the model. Producible media types are
determined based on the @Produces annotation declared on the resource class, if any.

Note
In case of "resource class"-based implicit MVC view templates, the controller is also the model.
In such case the template reference index is special, it is the template reference associated with
the controller instance itself.

In the following example, the MVC controller represented by a JAX-RS @GET sub-resource method, is
also generated in the resource class annotated with @Template:

@GET
@Path("{implicit-view-path-parameter}")
public Viewable get(@PathParameter("{implicit-view-path-parameter}") String templat
return new Viewable(template, this);
}

This allows Jersey to support also implicit sub-resource templates. For example, a JAX-RS resource at path
foo/bar will try to use relative template reference bar that resolves to an absolute template reference
/com/foo/Foo/bar.

In other words, a HTTP GET request to a /foo/bar would be handled by this auto-generated method in
the Foo resource and would delegate the request to a registered template processor supports processing of
the absolute template reference /com/foo/Foo/bar, where the model is still an instance of the same
JAX-RS resource class Foo.

20.3. Absolute vs. Relative template reference

As discussed in the previous section, both @Template [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/Template.html] and Viewable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/Viewable.html] provide means to define a reference to a template. We will
now discuss how these values are interpreted and how the concrete template is found.

20.3.1. Relative template reference

Relative reference is any path that does not start with a leading '/' (slash) character (i.e. index.foo).
This kind of references is resolved into absolute ones by pre-pending a given value with a fully qualified
name of the last matched resource.

Consider the Example 20.3, “Using @Template on a resource class” from the previous section, the
template name reference index is a relative value that Jersey will resolve to its absolute template reference

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using a fully qualified class name of Foo (more on resolving relative template name to the absolute one can
be found in the JavaDoc of Viewable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
server/mvc/Viewable.html] class), which, in our case, is:

"/com/foo/Foo/index"

Jersey will then search all the registered template processors (see Section 20.7, “Writing Custom
Templating Engines”) to find a template processor that can resolve the absolute template reference further
to a "processable" template reference. If a template processor is found then the "processable" template is
processed using the supplied data model.

Note
If none or empty template reference is provided (either in Viewable or via @Template) then
the index reference is assumed and all further processing is done for this value.

20.3.2. Absolute template reference

Let's change the resource GET method in our Foo resource a little:

Example 20.4. Using absolute path to template in Viewable

@GET
public Viewable get() {
return new Viewable("/index", "FOO");
}

In this case, since the template reference begins with "/", Jersey will consider the reference to be absolute
already and will not attempt to absolutize it again. The reference will be used "as is" when resolving it to
a "processable" template reference as described earlier.

Absolute template references start with leading '/' (i.e. /com/example/index.foo) character and
are not further resolved (with respect to the resolving resource class) which means that the template is
looked for at the provided path directly.

Note, however, that template processors for custom templating engines may modify (and the supported
ones do) absolute template reference by pre-pending 'base template path' (if defined) and appending
template suffix (i.e. foo) if the suffix is not provided in the reference.

For example assume that we want to use Mustache templates for our views and we have defined
'base template path' as pages. For the absolute template reference /com/example/Foo/index the
template processor will transform the reference into the following path: /pages/com/example/Foo/
index.mustache.

20.4. Handling errors with MVC

In addition to @Template [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/
Template.html] a @ErrorTemplate [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
server/mvc/ErrorTemplate.html] annotation has been introduced in Jersey 2.3. The purpose of this
annotation is to bind the model to an error view in case an exception has been raised during processing
of a request. This is true for any exception thrown after the resource matching phase (i.e. this not only
applies to JAX-RS resources but providers and even Jersey runtime as well). The model in this case is
the thrown exception itself.

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Example 20.5, “Using @ErrorTemplate on a resource method” shows how to use @ErrorTemplate
on a resource method. If all goes well with the method processing, then the /short-link template is
used to as page sent to the user. Otherwise if an exception is raised then the /error-form template is
shown to the user.

Example 20.5. Using @ErrorTemplate on a resource method

@POST
@Produces({"text/html”})
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED)
@Template(name = "/short-link")
@ErrorTemplate(name = "/error-form")
public ShortenedLink createLink(@FormParam("link") final String link) {
// ...
}

Note that @ErrorTemplate [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/

ErrorTemplate.html] can be used on a resource class or a resource method to merely handle
error states. There is no need to use @Template [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/Template.html] or Viewable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/Viewable.html] with it.

The annotation is handled by custom ExceptionMapper<E extends Throwable> [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/ExceptionMapper.html] which creates an instance of
Viewable that is further processed by Jersey. This exception mapper is registered automatically with
a MvcFeature.

20.4.1. MVC & Bean Validation

@ErrorTemplate can be used in also with Bean Validation to display specific error pages in
case the validation of input/output values fails for some reason. Everything works as described above
except the model is not the thrown exception but rather a list of ValidationError [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/validation/ValidationError.html]s. This list can be
iterated in the template and all the validation errors can be shown to the user in a desirable way.

Example 20.6. Using @ErrorTemplate with Bean Validation

@POST
@Produces({"text/html”})
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED)
@Template(name = "/short-link”) @ErrorTemplate(name = "/error-form")
@Valid
public ShortenedLink createLink(@NotEmpty @FormParam("link") final String link) {
// ...
}

Example 20.7. Iterating through ValidationError in JSP

<c:forEach items="${model}" var="error">
${error.message} "<strong>${error.invalidValue}</strong>"<br/>
</c:forEach>

Support for Bean Validation in Jersey MVC Templates is provided by a jersey-mvc-bean-

validation extension module. The JAX-RS Feature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/

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javax/ws/rs/core/Feature.html] provided by this module (MvcBeanValidationFeature) has to be

registered in order to use this functionality (see Section 20.5, “Registration and Configuration”).

Maven users can find this module at coordinates

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-mvc-bean-validation</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

and for non-Maven users the list of dependencies is available at jersey-mvc-bean-validation [https://
jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-mvc-bean-validation/dependencies.html].

20.5. Registration and Configuration

To use the capabilities of Jersey MVC templating support in your JAX-RS/Jersey application you
need to register specific JAX-RS Feature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/
rs/core/Feature.html]s provided by the MVC modules. For jersey-mvc module it is MvcFeature
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/MvcFeature.html] for others
it could be, for example, FreemarkerMvcFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/freemarker/FreemarkerMvcFeature.html] (jersey-mvc-freemarker).

Example 20.8. Registering MvcFeature

new ResourceConfig()
.register(org.glassfish.jersey.server.mvc.MvcFeature.class)
// Further configuration of ResourceConfig.
.register( ... );

Example 20.9. Registering FreemarkerMvcFeature

new ResourceConfig()
.register(org.glassfish.jersey.server.mvc.freemarker.FreemarkerMvcFeature.class
// Further configuration of ResourceConfig.
.register( ... );

Note
Modules that uses capabilities of the base Jersey MVC module register MvcFeature
automatically, so you don't need to register this feature explicitly in your code.

Almost all of the MVC modules are further configurable and either contain a *Properties (e.g.
FreemarkerMvcProperties) class describing all the available properties which could be set in a
JAX-RS Application / ResourceConfig. Alternatively, the properties are listed directly in the
module *Feature class.

Example 20.10. Setting MvcFeature.TEMPLATE_BASE_PATH value in

ResourceConfig
new ResourceConfig()
.property(MvcFeature.TEMPLATE_BASE_PATH, "templates")
.register(MvcFeature.class)

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// Further configuration of ResourceConfig.

.register( ... );

Example 20.11. Setting FreemarkerMvcProperties.TEMPLATE_BASE_PATH

value in web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>org.glassfish.jersey.examples.freemarker.MyApplication</servlet-n
<servlet-class>org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>javax.ws.rs.Application</param-name>
<param-value>org.glassfish.jersey.examples.freemarker.MyApplication</param-
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>jersey.config.server.mvc.templateBasePath.freemarker</param-nam
<param-value>freemarker</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

20.6. Supported templating engines

Jersey provides extension modules that enable support for several templating engines. This section lists
all the supported engines and their modules as well as discusses any module-specific details.

20.6.1. Mustache
An integration module for Mustache [https://github.com/spullara/mustache.java]-based templating engine.

Mustache template processor resolves absolute template references to processable template references
represented as Mustache templates as follows:

Procedure 20.1. Resolving Mustache template reference

1. if the absolute template reference does not end in .mustache append this suffix to the reference; and

2. if ServletContext.getResource, Class.getResource or File.existsreturns a

non-null value for the reference then return the reference as the processable template reference
otherwise return null (to indicate the absolute reference has not been resolved by the Mustache
template processor).

Thus the absolute template reference /com/foo/Foo/index would be resolved as /com/foo/Foo/

index.mustache, provided there exists a /com/foo/Foo/index.mustache Mustache template
in the application.

Available configuration properties:

• MustacheMvcFeature.TEMPLATE_BASE_PATH -
jersey.config.server.mvc.templateBasePath.mustache

The base path where Mustache templates are located.

• MustacheMvcFeature.CACHE_TEMPLATES -
jersey.config.server.mvc.caching.mustache

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Enables caching of Mustache templates to avoid multiple compilation.

• MustacheMvcFeature.TEMPLATE_OBJECT_FACTORY -
jersey.config.server.mvc.factory.mustache

Property used to pass user-configured MustacheFactory.

• MustacheMvcFeature.ENCODING -
jersey.config.server.mvc.encoding.mustache

Property used to configure a default encoding that will be used if none is specified in @Produces
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Produces.html] annotation. If property is
not defined the UTF-8 encoding will be used as a default value.

Maven users can find this module at coordinates

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-mvc-mustache</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

and for non-Maven users the list of dependencies is available at jersey-mvc-mustache [https://
jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-mvc-mustache/dependencies.html].

20.6.2. Freemarker
An integration module for Freemarker [http://freemarker.org/]-based templating engine.

Freemarker template processor resolves absolute template references to processable template references
represented as Freemarker templates as follows:

Procedure 20.2. Resolving Freemarker template reference

1. if the absolute template reference does not end in .ftl append this suffix to the reference; and

2. if ServletContext.getResource, Class.getResource or File.existsreturns a

non-null value for the reference then return the reference as the processable template reference
otherwise return null (to indicate the absolute reference has not been resolved by the Freemarker
template processor).

Thus the absolute template reference /com/foo/Foo/index would be resolved to /com/foo/

Foo/index.ftl, provided there exists a /com/foo/Foo/index.ftl Freemarker template in the
application.

Jersey will assign the model instance to an attribute named model. So it is possible to reference the foo
key from the provided Map (MVC Model) resource from the Freemarker template as follows:

<h1>${model.foo}</h1>

Available configuration properties:

• FreemarkerMvcFeature.TEMPLATE_BASE_PATH -
jersey.config.server.mvc.templateBasePath.freemarker

The base path where Freemarker templates are located.

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• FreemarkerMvcFeature.CACHE_TEMPLATES -
jersey.config.server.mvc.caching.freemarker

Enables caching of Freemarker templates to avoid multiple compilation.

• FreemarkerMvcFeature.TEMPLATE_OBJECT_FACTORY -
jersey.config.server.mvc.factory.freemarker

Property used to pass user-configured FreemarkerFactory.

• FreemarkerMvcFeature.ENCODING -
jersey.config.server.mvc.encoding.freemarker

Property used to configure a default encoding that will be used if none is specified in @Produces
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/Produces.html] annotation. If property is
not defined the UTF-8 encoding will be used as a default value.

Maven users can find this module at coordinates

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-mvc-freemarker</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

and for non-Maven users the list of dependencies is available at jersey-mvc-freemarker [https://
jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-mvc-freemarker/dependencies.html].

20.6.3. JSP
An integration module for JSP-based templating engine.

Limitations of Jersey JSP MVC Templates

Jersey web applications that want to use JSP templating support should be registered as Servlet
filters rather than Servlets in the application's web.xml. The web.xml-less deployment style
introduced in Servlet 3.0 is not supported at the moment for web applications that require use of
Jersey MVC templating support.

JSP template processor resolves absolute template references to processable template references
represented as JSP pages as follows:

Procedure 20.3. Resolving JSP template reference

1. if the absolute template reference does not end in .jsp append this suffix to the reference; and

2. if ServletContext.getResource returns a non-null value for the reference then return

the reference as the processable template reference otherwise return null (to indicate the absolute
reference has not been resolved by the JSP template processor).

Thus the absolute template reference /com/foo/Foo/index would be resolved to /com/foo/Foo/

index.jsp, provided there exists a /com/foo/Foo/index.jsp JSP page in the web application.

Jersey will assign the model instance to the attribute named model or it. So it is possible to reference
the foo property on the Foo resource from the JSP template as follows:

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<h1>${model.foo}</h1>

or

<h1>${it.foo}</h1>

To include another JSP page in the currently processed one a custom include tag can be used. Mandatory
parameter page represents a relative template name which would be absolutized using the same resolving
resource class as the parent JSP page template.

Example 20.12. Including JSP page into JSP page

<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

<%@taglib prefix="rbt" uri="urn:org:glassfish:jersey:servlet:mvc" %>

<html>
<body>

<rbt:include page="include.jsp"/>

</body>
</html>

Available configuration properties:

• JspMvcFeature.TEMPLATE_BASE_PATH -
jersey.config.server.mvc.templateBasePath.jsp

The base path where JSP templates are located.

Maven users can find this module at coordinates

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-mvc-jsp</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

and for non-Maven users the list of dependencies is available at jersey-mvc-jsp [https://jersey.java.net/
project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-mvc-jsp/dependencies.html].

20.7. Writing Custom Templating Engines

To add support for other (custom) templating engines into Jersey MVC Templating facility, you need
to implement the TemplateProcessor [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
server/mvc/spi/TemplateProcessor.html] and register this class into your application.

Tip
When writing template processors it is recommend that you use an appropriate unique suffix for
the processable template references, in which case it is then possible to easily support mixing of
multiple templating engines in a single application without conflicts.

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Example 20.13. Custom TemplateProcessor [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/

jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/spi/TemplateProcessor.html]
@Provider
class MyTemplateProcessor implements TemplateProcessor<String> {

@Override
public String resolve(String path, final MediaType mediaType) {
final String extension = ".testp";

if (!path.endsWith(extension)) {
path = path + extension;
}

final URL u = this.getClass().getResource(path);

return u == null ? null : path;
}

@Override
public void writeTo(String templateReference,
Viewable viewable,
MediaType mediaType,
OutputStream out) throws IOException {
final PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(out);
ps.print("path=");
ps.print(templateReference);
ps.println();
ps.print("model=");
ps.print(viewable.getModel().toString());
ps.println();
}

Example 20.14. Registering custom TemplateProcessor [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/spi/TemplateProcessor.html]
new ResourceConfig()
.register(MyTemplateProcessor.class)
// Further configuration of ResourceConfig.
.register( ... );

Note
In a typical set-up projects using the Jersey MVC templating support would depend on the base
module that provides the API and SPI and a single templating engine module for the templating
engine of your choice. These modules need to be mentioned explicitly in your pom.xml file.

If you want to use just templating API infrastructure provided by Jersey for the MVC templating support
in order to implement your custom support for a templating engine other than the ones provided by Jersey,
you will need to add the base jersey-mvc [https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-
mvc/dependencies.html] module into the list of your dependencies:

<dependency>

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<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-mvc</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

20.8. Other Examples

To see an example of MVC (JSP) templating support in Jersey refer to the MVC (Bookstore) Example
[https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/bookstore-webapp].

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21.1. Logging traffic
21.1.1. Introduction
Jersey Logging supports the logging request and response via internal client and server filters, which are
configured and registered by LoggingFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/logging/LoggingFeature.html] 's properties. LoggingFeature has been introduced in Jersey
2.23 version and deprecates an older LoggingFilter.

LoggingFeature might be discovered by auto-discoverable mechanism or initialized by registering

on client or server components. Client or server logging filter is initialized depending on which context
is LoggingFeature registered with.

21.1.2. Configuration and registering

21.1.2.1. Configuration options
Configurable options
• Logger name

Defines a logger used to log request and response messages.

Default value is LoggingFeature.DEFAULT_LOGGER_NAME [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/

jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/logging/LoggingFeature.html#DEFAULT_LOGGER_NAME].

• Logger level

Defines level that will be used to log messages by logging filters. Messages will be logged only if the
effective level of the logger allows it.

Default value is LoggingFeature.DEFAULT_LOGGER_LEVEL [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/logging/
LoggingFeature.html#DEFAULT_LOGGER_LEVEL].

• Verbosity

Verbosity determines how detailed message will be logged. See

LoggingFeature.Verbosity [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/logging/
LoggingFeature.Verbosity.html] javadoc.

• The lowest verbosity LoggingFeature.Verbosity.HEADERS_ONLY [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/logging/
LoggingFeature.Verbosity.html#HEADERS_ONLY] will log only request/response headers.

• The medium verbosity (LoggingFeature.Verbosity.PAYLOAD_TEXT [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/logging/
LoggingFeature.Verbosity.html#PAYLOAD_TEXT]) will log request/response headers, as well as
an entity if considered a readable text. The entity is considered a readable text, if MediaType [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/MediaType.html] is text/* or is one of

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• application/atom+xml

• application/json

• application/svg+xml

• application/x-www-form-urlencoded

• application/xhtml+xml

• application/xml

• The highest verbosity LoggingFeature.Verbosity.PAYLOAD_ANY [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/logging/
LoggingFeature.Verbosity.html#PAYLOAD_ANY] will log all types of an entity (besides the
request/response headers.
Note that the entity is logged up to the specified maximum number of
bytes (see LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_MAX_ENTITY_SIZE [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/logging/
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_MAX_ENTITY_SIZE]).

Default value is LoggingFeature.DEFAULT_VERBOSITY [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/

jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/logging/LoggingFeature.html#DEFAULT_VERBOSITY].

• Maximum entity size

Maximum number of entity bytes to be logged (and buffered) - if the entity is larger, logging filter will
print (and buffer in memory) only the specified number of bytes and print "...more..." string at the end.
Negative values are interpreted as zero.

Default value LoggingFeature.DEFAULT_MAX_ENTITY_SIZE [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/logging/
LoggingFeature.html#DEFAULT_MAX_ENTITY_SIZE].

21.1.2.2. Configuration properties

The feature is enabled on when auto-discoverable mechanism is not disabled and at least one of the feature's
property is set. For enabling client or server logging filter one of the common properties or _CLIENT
suffixed properties, or _SERVER properties respectively.

An example of initializing server-side logging with the highest verbosity.

Example 21.1. Logging on client-side

1 ClientConfig clientConfig = new ClientConfig();

2 clientConfig.property(LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_VERBOSITY_CLIENT, Logg
3 Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder(clientConfig);
4

The LoggingFeature might be registered explicitly on ResourceConfig [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ResourceConfig.html] for server-side logging or on
Client [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Client.html] for client-side
logging.

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Example 21.2. Register LoggingFeature via constructor

1 ResourceConfig config = new ResourceConfig(HelloWorldResource.class);
2 config.register(new LoggingFeature(LOGGER, LoggingFeature.Verbosity.PAY
3

Following examples demonstrate registering LoggingFeature on server-side with default values

and values defined by one of the public constructors (see LoggingFeature [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/logging/LoggingFeature.html]).

Example 21.3. Register LoggingFeature class

1 ResourceConfig config = new ResourceConfig(HelloWorldResource.class);
2 config.register(LoggingFeature.class);
3

An example of server-side logging with entity Hello World!

1 May 09, 2016 2:55:33 PM org.glassfish.jersey.logging.LoggingInterceptor log

2 INFO: 1 * Server has received a request on thread grizzly-http-server-0
3 1 > GET http://localhost:9998/helloworld
4 1 > accept: text/plain
5 1 > accept-encoding: gzip,deflate
6 1 > connection: Keep-Alive
7 1 > host: localhost:9998
8 1 > user-agent: Jersey/3.0-SNAPSHOT (Apache HttpClient 4.5)
9
10 May 09, 2016 2:55:33 PM org.glassfish.jersey.logging.LoggingInterceptor log
11 INFO: 1 * Server responded with a response on thread grizzly-http-server-0
12 1 < 200
13 1 < Content-Type: text/plain
14 Hello World!

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Diagnostics
22.1. Monitoring Jersey Applications
22.1.1. Introduction
Important
Jersey monitoring support has been released as a beta release in Jersey 2.1 version. As such, the
exposed monitoring public APIs and functionality described in this section may change in the
future Jersey releases.

Jersey provides functionality for monitoring JAX-RS/Jersey applications. Application monitoring is useful
in cases when you need to identify the performance hot-spots in your JAX-RS application, observe
execution statistics of particular resources or listen to application or request lifecycle events. Note that this
functionality is Jersey-specific extension to JAX-RS API.

Jersey monitoring support is divided into three functional areas:

Event Listeners Event listeners allow users to receive and process a predefined
set of events that occur during a application lifecycle (such as
application initialization, application destroy) as well as request
processing lifecycle events (request started, resource method
finished, exception thrown, etc.). This feature is always enabled
in Jersey server runtime and is leveraged by the other monitoring
features.

Monitoring Statistics Jersey can be configured to process lifecycle events in order

to expose a wide range of runtime monitoring statistics to
the end user. The statistics are accessible trough an injectable
MonitoringStatistics [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/server/monitoring/MonitoringStatistics.html]
interface. The statistics provide general information about the
application as well as fine-grained execution statistics on particular
resources and sub resources and exposed URIs. For performance
reasons, this functionality must be explicitly enabled prior using.

JMX MBeans with statistics In addition to the injectable MonitoringStatistics data,

Jersey is able to expose the statistics as JMX MBeans (for example
ApplicationMXBean [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/server/monitoring/
ApplicationMXBean.html]). Jersey monitoring MXBeans can be
accessed programmatically using JMX APIs or browsed via JMX-
enabled tool (JConsole for example). This functionality is, too,
by default disabled for performance reasons and must be enabled
if needed.

All monitoring related APIs (beta!) can be found in the jersey-server module in
org.glassfish.jersey.server.monitoring package. Monitoring in Jersey is currently
supported on the server side.

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22.1.2. Event Listeners

Jersey defines two types of event listeners that you can implement and register with your application:

• ApplicationEventListener [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
monitoring/ApplicationEventListener.html] for listening to application events, and

• RequestEventListener [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
monitoring/RequestEventListener.html] for listening to events of request processing.

Only the first type, ApplicationEventListener can be directly registered as an application-wide

provider. The RequestEventListener is designed to be specific to every request and can be only
returned from the ApplicationEventListener as such.

Let's start with an example. The following examples show simple implementations of Jersey event listeners
as well as a test JAX-RS resource that will be monitored.

Example 22.1. Application event listener

1 public class MyApplicationEventListener

2 implements ApplicationEventListener {
3 private volatile int requestCnt = 0;
4
5 @Override
6 public void onEvent(ApplicationEvent event) {
7 switch (event.getType()) {
8 case INITIALIZATION_FINISHED:
9 System.out.println("Application "
10 + event.getResourceConfig().getApplicationName()
11 + " was initialized.");
12 break;
13 case DESTROY_FINISHED:
14 System.out.println("Application "
15 + event.getResourceConfig().getApplicationName() destroyed.
16 break;
17 }
18 }
19
20 @Override
21 public RequestEventListener onRequest(RequestEvent requestEvent) {
22 requestCnt++;
23 System.out.println("Request " + requestCnt + " started.");
24 // return the listener instance that will handle this request.
25 return new MyRequestEventListener(requestCnt);
26 }
27 }

Example 22.2. Request event listener

1 public class MyRequestEventListener implements RequestEventListener {

2 private final int requestNumber;
3 private final long startTime;
4

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5 public MyRequestEventListener(int requestNumber) {

6 this.requestNumber = requestNumber;
7 startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
8 }
9
10 @Override
11 public void onEvent(RequestEvent event) {
12 switch (event.getType()) {
13 case RESOURCE_METHOD_START:
14 System.out.println("Resource method "
15 + event.getUriInfo().getMatchedResourceMethod()
16 .getHttpMethod()
17 + " started for request " + requestNumber);
18 break;
19 case FINISHED:
20 System.out.println("Request " + requestNumber
21 + " finished. Processing time "
22 + (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime) + " ms.");
23 break;
24 }
25 }
26 }

Example 22.3. Event listener test resource

1 @Path("resource")
2 public class TestResource {
3 @GET
4 public String getSomething() {
5 return "get";
6 }
7
8 @POST
9 public String postSomething(String entity) {
10 return "post";
11 }
12 }

Once the listeners and the monitored resource is defined, it's time to initialize our application.
The following piece of code shows a ResourceConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/ResourceConfig.html] that is used to initialize the application (please note that only
ApplicationEventListener is registered as provider).

1 ResourceConfig resourceConfig =
2 new ResourceConfig(TestResource.class, MyApplicationEventListener.c
3 .setApplicationName("my-monitored-application");

Our example application now contains a simple resource TestResource that defines resource methods
for GET and POST and a custom MyApplicationEventListener event listener.

The registered MyApplicationEventListener implements two methods defined by the

ApplicationEventListener interface. A method onEvent() handles all application lifecycle
events. In our case the method handles only 2 application events - initialization and destroy. Other event
types are ignored. All application event types are defined in ApplicationEvent [https://jersey.java.net/

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apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/monitoring/ApplicationEvent.html].Type. The second

method onRequest is invoked by Jersey runtime every time a new request is received. The request
event type passed to the method is always START. If you want to listen to any other request lifecycle
events for the new request, you are expected to return an instance of RequestEventListener that
will handle the request. It is important to understand, that the instance will handle only the request for
which it has been returned from an ApplicationEventListener.onRequest method and not any
other requests. In our case the returned request event listener keeps information about the request number
of the current request and a start time of the request which is later used to print out the request processing
times statistics. This demonstrates the principle of listening to request events: for one request there is a
one instance which can be used to hold all the information about the particular request. In other words,
RequestEventListener is designed to be implicitly request-scoped.

Jersey represents lifecycle events via RequestEvent [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/

org/glassfish/jersey/server/monitoring/RequestEvent.html] and ApplicationEvent [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/monitoring/ApplicationEvent.html] types. Instances of
these classes contain information about respective events. The most important information is the event
type Type retrievable via getType() method, which identifies the type of the event. Events contain
also additional information that is dependent on a particular event type. This information can be retrieved
via event getters. Again, some getters return valid information for all event types, some are specific
to a sub-set of event types. For example, in the RequestEvent, the getExceptionCause()
method returns valid information only when event type is ON_EXCEPTION. On the other hand, a
getContainerRequest() can be used to return current request context for any request event type.
See javadoc of events and event types to get familiar with event types and information valid for each event
type.

Our MyRequestEventListener implementation is focused on processing 2 request events. First,

it listens for an event that is triggered before a resource method is executed. Also, it hooks
to a "request finished" event. As mentioned earlier, the request event START is handled only
in the MyApplicationEventListener. The START event type will never be invoked on
RequestEventListener. Therefore the logic for measuring the startTime is in the constructor
which is invoked from MyApplicationEventListener.onRequest(). An attempt to handling
the request START event in a RequestEventListener.onEvent() method would be a mistake.

Let's deploy the application and use a simple test client code to produce some activity in order to spawn
new events:

1 target.path("resource").request()
2 .post(Entity.entity("post", MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_TYPE));
3 target.path("resource").request().get();

In the code above, the target is a WebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/

ws/rs/client/WebTarget.html] instance pointing to the application context root path. Using the Chapter 5,
Client API, we invoke GET and POST methods on the MyResource JAX-RS resource class that we
implemented earlier.

When we start the application, run the test client and then stop the application, the console output for the
deployed server-side application would contain the following output:

Application my-monitored-application was initialized.

Request 1 started.
Resource method POST started for request 1
Request 1 finished. Processing time 330 ms.
Request 2 started.
Resource method GET started for request 2

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Request 2 finished. Processing time 4 ms.

Application my-monitored-application destroyed.

22.1.2.1. Guidelines for implementing Jersey event listeners

• Implement event listeners as thread safe. While individual events will be arriving serially, individual
listener invocations may occur from different threads. Thus make sure that your listeners are
processing data safely with respect to their Java Memory Model [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Java_Memory_Model] visibility (in the example above the fields requestNumber, startTime
of MyRequestEventListener are final and therefore the same value is visible for all threads
executing the onEvent() method).

• Do not block the thread executing the event listeners by performing long-running tasks. Execution of
event listeners is a part of the standard application and request processing and as such needs to finish as
quickly as possible to avoid negative impact on overall application performance.

• Do not try to modify mutable objects returned from ApplicationEvent and RequestEvent
getters to avoid experiencing undefined behavior. Events listeners should use the information for read
only purposes only. Use different techniques like filters, interceptors or other providers to modify the
processing of requests and applications. Even though modification might be possible and might work
as desired now, your code is in risk of producing intermittent failures or unexpected behaviour (for
example after migrating to new Jersey version).

• If you do not want to listen to request events, do not return an empty listener in the onRequest()
method. Return null instead. Returning empty listener might have a negative performance impact. Do
not rely on JIT optimizing out the empty listener invocation code.

• If you miss any event type or any detail in the events, let us know via Jersey user mailing list.

22.1.2.2. Monitoring Statistics

Event listeners described in the previous section are all-purpose facility. For example, you may decide
to use them to measure various execution statistics of your application. While this might be an easy task
for simple statistics like "how much time was spent on execution of each Java method?", nevertheless,
if you want to measure statistics based on URIs and individual resources, the implementation might get
rather complex soon, especially when considering sub-resources and sub-resource locators. To save you
the trouble, Jersey provides feature for collecting events and calculating a pre-defined set of monitoring
and execution statistics, including application configuration, exception mappers execution, minimum/
maximum/average execution times for individual resource methods as well as entire request processing etc.

Calculating the monitoring statistics has obviously a performance impact, therefore this feature is disabled
by default. To enable the feature, set the following configuration property to true:

jersey.config.server.monitoring.statistics.enabled=true

The property description can be found in ServerProperties.MONITORING_STATISTICS_ENABLED

[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#MONITORING_STATISTICS_ENABLED] This will calculate the statistics. The
easiest way how to get statistics is to let Jersey to inject them. See the following example:

Example 22.4. Injecting MonitoringStatistics

1 @Path("resource")

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2 public static class StatisticsResource {

3 @Inject
4 Provider<MonitoringStatistics> monitoringStatisticsProvider;
5
6 @GET
7 public String getSomething() {
8 final MonitoringStatistics snapshot
9 = monitoringStatisticsProvider.get().snapshot();
10
11 final TimeWindowStatistics timeWindowStatistics
12 = snapshot.getRequestStatistics()
13 .getTimeWindowStatistics().get(0l);
14
15 return "request count: " + timeWindowStatistics.getRequestCount()
16 + ", average request processing [ms]: "
17 + timeWindowStatistics.getAverageDuration();
18 }
19 }}

MonitoringStatistics [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/monitoring/
MonitoringStatistics.html] are injected into the resource using an @Inject [http://docs.oracle.com/
javaee/7/api/javax/inject/Inject.html] annotation. Please note the usage of the Provider [http://
docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/inject/Provider.html] for injection (it will be discussed later). Firstly,
the snapshot of statistics is retrieved by the snapshot() method. The snapshot of statistics is an
immutable copy of statistics which does not change over the time. Additionally, data in a snapshot are
consistent. It's recommended to create snapshots before working with the statistics data and then process
the snapshot data. Working with original non-snapshot data makes sense when data consistency is not
important and performance is of highest concern. While it is currently not the case, the injected non-
snapshot data may be implemented as mutable for performance reasons in a future release of Jersey.

The injected monitoring statistics represent the root of the collected statistics hierarchy. The
hierarchy can be traversed to retrieve any partial statistics data. In the example, we retrieve certain
request TimeWindowStatistics [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
monitoring/TimeWindowStatistics.html] data. In our case, those are the request execution statistics for a
time window defined by long value 0 which means unlimited time window. This means we are retrieving
the global request execution statistics measured since a start of the application. Finally, request count and
average duration from the statistics are used to produce the String response. When we invoke few GET
requests on the StatisticsResource, we get the following console output:

request count: 1, average request processing [ms]: 260

request count: 2, average request processing [ms]: 135
request count: 3, average request processing [ms]: 93
request count: 4, average request processing [ms]: 73

Let's look closer at MonitoringStatistics [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/

server/monitoring/MonitoringStatistics.html] interface. MonitoringStatistics interface defines
getters by which other nested statistics can be retrieved. All statistics are in the same package and ends
with Statistics postfix. Statistics interfaces are the following:

MonitoringStatistics [https:// main top level statistics

jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/server/monitoring/
MonitoringStatistics.html]

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ResponseStatistics [https:// response statistics (eg. response status codes and their count)
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/server/monitoring/
ResponseStatistics.html]

ResourceStatistics [https:// statistics of execution of resources (resource classes or resource

jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/ URIs)
jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/server/monitoring/
ResourceStatistics.html]

ResourceMethodStatistics statistics of execution of resource methods

[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/monitoring/
ResourceMethodStatistics.html]

ExecutionStatistics [https:// statistic of execution of a target (resource, request, resource

jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/ method)
jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/server/monitoring/
ExecutionStatistics.html]

TimeWindowStatistics statistics of execution time in specific interval (eg. executions in

[https://jersey.java.net/ last 5 minutes)
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/monitoring/
TimeWindowStatistics.html]

Each time-monitored target contains ExecutionStatistics. So, for example resource

method contains execution statistics of its execution. Each ExecutionStatistics
contains multiple TimeWindowStatistics. Currently, each ExecutionStatistics contains
TimeWindowStatistics for these time windows:

• 0: unlimited=> all execution since start of the application

• 1000: 1s => stats measured in last 1 second

• 15000: 15s => stats measured in last 15 seconds

• 60000: 1min => stats measured in last 1 minute

• 900000: 15min => stats measured in last 15 minutes

• 3600000: 1hour => stats measured in last hour minutes

All the time window statistics can be retrieved from a Map<Long, TimeWindowStatistics> map
returned from ExecutionStatistics.getTimeWindowStatistics(). Key of the map is the
number of milliseconds of interval (so, for example key 60000 points to statistics for last one minute).

Note, that snapshot() method was called in the example only on the top level
MonitoringStatistics. This produced a snapshot of the entire tree of statistics and therefore we
do not need to call snapshot() on TimeWindowStatistics again.

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Statistics are injected using the Provider [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/inject/Provider.html].

This is preferred way of injecting statistics. The reason is simple. Statistics might change over time and
contract of MonitoringStatistics does not make any assumptions about mutability of monitoring
statistics instances (to allow future optimizations and changes in implementation strategy). In order to
get always latest statistics, we recommend injecting a Provider [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/
inject/Provider.html] rather than a direct reference and use it's get() method to retrieve the latest
statistics. For example, in singleton resources the use of the technique is very important otherwise statistics
might correspond to the time when singleton was firstly created and might not update since that time.

22.1.2.2.1. Listening to statistics changes

Statistics are not calculated for each request or each change. Statistics are calculated only from the collected
data in regular intervals for performance reasons (for example once per second). If you want to be notified
about new statistics, register an implementation of MonitoringStatisticsListener [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/monitoring/MonitoringStatisticsListener.html] as one of
your custom application providers. Your listener will be called every time the new statistics are calculated
and the updated statistics data will be passed to the listener method. This is another way of receiving
statistics. See the linked listener API documentation for more information.

22.1.2.3. Monitoring Statistics as MBeans

Note
Jersey examples contains a Monitoring Web Application Example [https://github.com/jersey/
jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/monitoring-webapp] which demonstrates usage of MBean statistics.

Jersey provides feature to expose monitoring statistics as JMX

MXBeans. In order to enable monitoring statistics MXBeans exposure,
the ServerProperties.MONITORING_STATISTICS_MBEANS_ENABLED [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#MONITORING_STATISTICS_MBEANS_ENABLED] must be set to true.

jersey.config.server.monitoring.statistics.mbeans.enabled=true

Note that enabling exposure of monitoring MXBeans causes that also the calculation of
MonitoringStatistics is automatically enabled as the exposed MXBean statistics are extracted
from MonitoringStatistics.

The easiest way is to browse the MXBeans in the JConsole. Open the JConsole ($JAVA_HOME/bin/
jconsole). Then connect to the process where JAX-RS application is running (server on which the
application is running). Switch to a MBean tab and in the MBean tree on the left side find a group
org.glassfish.jersey. All deployed Jersey applications are located under this group. If you don't
see such this group, then MBeans are not exposed (check the configuration property and logs if they not
contain any exceptions or errors). The following figure is an example of an output from the JConsole:

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Under the root org.glassfish.jersey Jersey MBean group you can find your
application. If the server contains more Jersey application, all will be present under
the root Jersey the group. In the screen-shot, the deployed JAX-RS application
is named myApplication (the name can be defined via ResourceConfig [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ResourceConfig.html] directly or by
setting the ServerProperties.APPLICATION_NAME [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/ServerProperties.html#APPLICATION_NAME] property). Each application
contains Global, Resource and Uris sub-groups. The Global group contains all global
statistics like overall requests statistics of the entire application (AllRequestTimes), configuration
of the JAX-RS application (Configuration), statistics about ExceptionMapper<E extends
Throwable> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/ExceptionMapper.html]
execution (ExceptionMapper) and statistics about produced responses (Responses).

Resources and Uris groups contains monitoring statistics specific to individual resources. Statistics
in Resources are bound to the JAX-RS resource Java classes loaded by the application. Uris contains
statistics of resources based on the matched application Uris (one URI entry represents all methods
bound to the particular URI, e.g. /resource/exception). As Jersey provides programmatic resource
builders (described in the chapter "Programmatic API for Building Resources"), one Java resource class
can be an endpoint for resource methods on many different URIs. And also one URI can be served by
method from many different Java classes. Therefore both views are not to be compared 1:1. Instead they
provide different loggical views on your JAX-RS application. This monitoring feature can also help when
designing the JAX-RS APIs as it provides nice view on available root application URIs.

Both logical views on the resources exposed by application share few common principles. A single
resource entry is always a set of resource methods which are available under the methods sub-group.
Statistics can be found in MBeans MethodTimes and RequestTimes. MethodTimes contains

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statistics measured on on resource methods (duration of execution of a code of the a resource method),
whereas RequestTimes contains statistics of an entire request execution (not only a time of the
execution of the resource method but the overall time of the execution of whole request by Jersey runtime).
Another useful information is that statistics directly under resource (not under the methods sub-group)
contains summary of statistics for all resource methods grouped in the resource entry.

Additional useful details that about statistics

• Global->Configuration->Registered(Classes/Instances): registered resource

classes and instances by the user (i.e., not added by ModelProcessor [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/model/ModelProcessor.html] during deployment for
example).

• Global->ExceptionMapper->ExceptionMapperCount: map that contains exception

mapper classes as keys and number of their execution as values.

• Global->Responses->ResponseCodesToCountMap: map that contains response codes as

keys and their total occurrence in responses as values.

• Resource groups contain also entries for resources that were added by Jersey at deployment time using
ModelProcessor (for example all OPTIONS methods, WADL). HEAD methods are not present in the
MXBeans view (even HEAD methods are in resources).

• Execution statistics for different time windows have different update intervals. The shorter the time
window, the shorter the update interval. This causes that immediately after the application start, the
shorter time windows (such as 15 seconds) may contain higher values than longer ones (e.g. 1 hour time
window). The reason is that 1 hour interval will show information that is not up to date and therefore has
smaller value. This inconsistency is not so much significant when application is running longer time.
Total unlimited time windows contains always up-to-date data. This inconsistency will get fixed in a
future Jersey release.

MXBeans can be also accessed using JMX. To do so, you would need to use the interfaces of MXBeans.
These interfaces are even useful when working with MXBeans only trough JConsole as they contain
Javadocs for each MXBean and attribute. Monitoring MBeans are defined by following interfaces:

• ApplicationMXBean [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
monitoring/ApplicationMXBean.html]: contains configuration statistics

• ExceptionMapperMXBean [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
monitoring/ExceptionMapperMXBean.html]: contains statistics of exception mappers

• ResourceMethodMXBean [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
monitoring/ResourceMethodMXBean.html]: contains statistics of resource method

• ResourceMXBean [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/monitoring/
ResourceMXBean.html]: contains statistics of resource

• ResponseMXBean [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
monitoring/ResponseMXBean.html]: contains statistics of responses

The list does not contain MXBean for the execution and time window statistics. The reason is that
this bean is defined as a DynamicMBean [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/management/
DynamicMBean.html]. Attributes of this dynamic MBean contains statistics for all time windows
available.

MXBeans do not reference each other but can be retrieved by their ObjectName [http://docs.oracle.com/
javase/6/docs/api/javax/management/ObjectName.html]s which are designed in the way, that final MBean

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tree looks nicely organized in JConsole. Each MXBean is uniquely identified by its ObjectName and
properties of ObjectName are structured hierarchically, so that each MXBean can be identified to which
parent it belong to (e.g. execution statistics dynamic MXBean belongs to resource method MXBean, which
belongs to resource and which belongs to application). Check the ObjectNames of exposed MXBeans
to investigate the structure (for example through JConsole).

To reiterate, exposing Jersey MXBeans and the calculating monitoring statistics may have an performance
impact on your application and therefore should be enabled only when needed. Also, please note, that it
Jersey monitoring is exposing quite a lot of information about the monitored application which might be
viewed as problematic in some cases (e.g. in production server deployments).

22.2. Tracing Support

Apart from monitoring and collecting application statistics described in Section 22.1, “Monitoring Jersey
Applications”, Jersey can also provide tracing or diagnostic information about server-side processing of
individual requests. This facility may provide vital information when troubleshooting your misbehaving
Jersey or JAX-RS application. When enabled, Jersey tracing facility collects useful information
from all parts of JAX-RS server-side request processing pipeline: PreMatchRequestFilter,
ResourceMatching, RequestFilter, ReadIntercept, MBR, Invoke, ResponseFilter,
WriteIntercept, MBW, as well as ExceptionHandling.

The collected tracing information related to a single request is returned to the requesting client in the HTTP
headers of a response for the request. The information is also logged on the server side using a dedicated
Java Logger instance.

22.2.1. Configuration options

Tracing support is disabled by default. You can enable it either "globally" for all application
requests or selectively per request. The tracing support activation is controlled by setting the
jersey.config.server.tracing.type application configuration property. The property value
is expected to be one of the following:

• OFF - tracing support is disabled (default value).

• ON_DEMAND - tracing support is in a stand-by mode; it is enabled selectively per request, via a special
X-Jersey-Tracing-Accept HTTP request header.

• ALL - tracing support is enabled for all request.

The level of detail of the information provided by Jersey tracing facility - the tracing
threshold - can be customized. The tracing threshold can be set at the application level via
jersey.config.server.tracing.threshold application configuration property, or at a
request level, via X-Jersey-Tracing-Threshold HTTP request header. The request level
configuration overrides any application level setting. There are 3 supported levels of detail for Jersey
tracing:

• SUMMARY - very basic summary information about the main request processing stages.

• TRACE - detailed information about activities in all the main request processing stages (default threshold
value).

• VERBOSE - most verbose mode that provides extended information similar to TRACE level, however
with details on entity providers (MBR/MBW) that were skipped during the provider selection phase for any
reason (lower priority, pattern matching, etc). Additionally, in this mode all received request headers
are echoed as part of the tracing information.

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22.2.2. Tracing Log

As mentioned earlier, all tracing information is also logged using a dedicated Java Logger. The individual
tracing messages are logged immediately as the tracing events occur. The default name of the tracing logger
is prefixed org.glassfish.jersey.tracing. with a default suffix general. This logger name
can be customized per request by including a X-Jersey-Tracing-Logger HTTP request header as
will be shown later.

22.2.3. Configuring tracing support via HTTP request

headers
Whenever the tracing support is active (ON_DEMAND or ALL) you can customize the tracing behaviour
by including one or more of the following request HTTP headers in your individual requests:

• X-Jersey-Tracing-Accept - used to enable the tracing support for the particular request. It is
applied only when the application-level tracing support is configured to ON_DEMAND mode. The value
of the header is not used by the Jersey tracing facility and as such it can be any arbitrary (even empty)
string.

• X-Jersey-Tracing-Threshold - used to override the tracing level of detail. Allowed values are:
SUMMARY, TRACE, VERBOSE.

• X-Jersey-Tracing-Logger - used to override the tracing Java logger name suffix.

22.2.4. Format of the HTTP response headers

At the end of request processing all tracing messages are appended to the HTTP response as individual
headers named X-Jersey-Tracing-nnn where nnn is index number of message starting at 0.

Each tracing message is in the following format: CATEGORY [TIME] TEXT, e.g.

X-Jersey-Tracing-007: WI [85.95 / 183.69 ms | 46.77 %] WriteTo summary: 4

The CATEGORY is used to categorize tracing events according to the following event types:

• START - start of request processing information

• PRE-MATCH - pre-matching request filter processing

• MATCH - matching request URI to a resource method

• REQ-FILTER - request filter processing

• RI - entity reader interceptor processing

• MBR - message body reader selection and invocation

• INVOKE - resource method invocation

• RESP-FILTER - response filter processing

• WI - write interceptor processing

• MBW - message body writer selection and invocation

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• MVC - template engine integration

• EXCEPTION - exception mapping

• FINISHED - processing finish summary

The TIME, if present, is a composite value that consists of 3 parts [ duration / time_from_start
| total_req_ratio ]:

1. duration - the duration of the current trace event [milliseconds]; e.g. duration of filter processing

2. time_from_start - the end time of the current event with respect to the request processing start
time [milliseconds]

3. total_req_ratio - the duration of the current event with respect to the total request processing
time [percentage]; this value tells you how significant part of the whole request processing time has
been spent in the processing phase described by the current event

There are certain tracing events that do not have any duration. In such case, duration values are not set
(---- literal).

The tracing event TEXT is a free-form detailed text information about the current diagnostic event.

Tip
For better identification, instances of JAX-RS components are represented
by class name, identity hash code and @Priority value if set, e.g.
[org.glassfish.jersey.tests.integration.tracing.ContainerResponseFilter5001
@494a8227 #5001].

22.2.5. Tracing Examples

Example of SUMMARY level messages from tests/integration/tracing-support module:

Example 22.5. Summary level messages

1 $ curl -i http://localhost:9998/ALL/root/sub-resource-locator/sub-resource-meth
2
3 X-Jersey-Tracing-000: START [ ---- / ---- ms | ---- %] baseUri=[http://
4 X-Jersey-Tracing-001: PRE-MATCH [ 0.01 / 0.68 ms | 0.01 %] PreMatchRequest
5 X-Jersey-Tracing-002: MATCH [ 8.44 / 9.15 ms | 4.59 %] RequestMatching
6 X-Jersey-Tracing-003: REQ-FILTER [ 0.01 / 9.20 ms | 0.00 %] Request summary:
7 X-Jersey-Tracing-004: RI [86.14 / 95.49 ms | 46.87 %] ReadFrom summary
8 X-Jersey-Tracing-005: INVOKE [ 0.04 / 95.70 ms | 0.02 %] Resource [org.gl
9 X-Jersey-Tracing-006: RESP-FILTER [ 0.01 / 96.55 ms | 0.00 %] Response summary
10 X-Jersey-Tracing-007: WI [85.95 / 183.69 ms | 46.77 %] WriteTo summary
11 X-Jersey-Tracing-008: FINISHED [ ---- / 183.79 ms | ---- %] Response status

Example TRACE level messages of jersey-mvc-jsp integration, from examples/bookstore-

webapp module:

Example 22.6. On demand request, snippet of MVC JSP forwarding

1 $ curl -i http://localhost:9998/items/3/tracks/0 -H X-Jersey-Tracing-Accept:wha
2

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3 ...
4 X-Jersey-Tracing-033: WI [ 0.00 / 23.39 ms | 0.02 %] [org.glassfish.j
5 X-Jersey-Tracing-034: WI [ 0.01 / 23.42 ms | 0.02 %] [org.glassfish.j
6 X-Jersey-Tracing-035: MBW [ ---- / 23.45 ms | ---- %] Find MBW for typ
7 X-Jersey-Tracing-036: MBW [ ---- / 23.52 ms | ---- %] [org.glassfish.j
8 X-Jersey-Tracing-037: MVC [ ---- / 24.05 ms | ---- %] Forwarding view
9 X-Jersey-Tracing-038: MBW [ 1.09 / 24.63 ms | 4.39 %] WriteTo by [org.
10 X-Jersey-Tracing-039: WI [ 0.00 / 24.67 ms | 0.01 %] [org.glassfish.j
11 X-Jersey-Tracing-040: WI [ 0.00 / 24.70 ms | 0.01 %] [org.glassfish.j
12 ...

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Lifecycle Management
Since version 2.0, Jersey uses HK2 [http://hk2.java.net/] library for component life cycle management and
dependency injection. Rather than spending a lot of effort in maintaining Jersey specific API (as it used
to be before Jersey 2.0 version), Jersey defines several extension points where end-user application can
directly manipulate Jersey HK2 bindings using the HK2 public API to customize life cycle management
and dependency injection of application components.

Jersey user guide can by no means supply an exhaustive documentation of HK2 API in it's entire scope.
This chapter only points out the most common scenarios related to dependency injection in Jersey and
suggests possible options to implement these scenarios. It is highly recommended to check out the
HK2 [http://hk2.java.net/] website and read HK2 documentation in order to get better understanding of
suggested approaches. HK2 documentation should also help in resolving use cases that are not discussed
in this writing.

There are typically three main use cases, where your application may consider dealing with HK2 APIs
exposed in Jersey:

• Implementing a custom injection provider that allows an application to define additional types to be
injectable into Jersey-managed JAX-RS components.

• Defining a custom injection annotation (other than @Inject [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/

javax/inject/Inject.html] or @Context [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
core/Context.html]) to mark application injection points.

• Specifying a custom component life cycle management for your application components.

Relying on Servlet HTTP session concept is not very RESTful. It turns the originally state-less HTTP
communication schema into a state-full manner. However, it could serve as a good example that will
help me demonstrate implementation of the use cases described above. The following examples should
work on top of Jersey Servlet integration module. The approach that will be demonstrated could be
further generalized. Bellow i will show how to make actual Servlet HttpSession [http://docs.oracle.com/
javaee/7/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpSession.html] injectable into JAX-RS components and how to make
this injection work with a custom inject annotation type. Finally, i will demonstrate how you can write
HttpSession-scoped JAX-RS resources.

23.1. Implementing Custom Injection Provider

Jersey implementation allows you to directly inject HttpServletRequest [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/
api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html] instance into your JAX-RS components. It is quite straight
forward to get the appropriate HttpSession instance out of the injected request instance. Let say, you
want to get HttpSession instance directly injected into your JAX-RS types like in the code snippet
below.

@Path("di-resource")
public class MyDiResource {

@Inject HttpSession httpSession;

...

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To make the above injection work, you will need to define an additional HK2 binding in
your application ResourceConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ResourceConfig.html]. Let's start with a custom HK2 Factory [https://hk2.java.net/apidocs/org/glassfish/
hk2/api/Factory.html] implementation that knows how to extract HttpSession out of given
HttpServletRequest.

import org.glassfish.hk2.api.Factory;
...

public class HttpSessionFactory implements Factory<HttpSession> {

private final HttpServletRequest request;

@Inject
public HttpSessionFactory(HttpServletRequest request) {
this.request = request;
}

@Override
public HttpSession provide() {
return request.getSession();
}

@Override
public void dispose(HttpSession t) {
}
}

Please note that the factory implementation itself relies on having the actual HttpServletRequest
instance injected. In your implementation, you can of course depend on other types (and inject them
conveniently) as long as these other types are bound to the actual HK2 service locator by Jersey or by your
application. The key notion to remember here is that your HK2 Factory implementation is responsible
for implementing the provide() method that is used by HK2 runtime to retrieve the injected instance.
Those of you who worked with Guice binding API in the past will most likely find this concept very
familiar.

Once implemented, the factory can be used in a custom HK2 Binder to define the new injection binding
for HttpSession. Finally, the implemented binder can be registered in your ResourceConfig [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ResourceConfig.html]:

import org.glassfish.hk2.utilities.binding.AbstractBinder;
...

public class MyApplication extends ResourceConfig {

public MyApplication() {

...

register(new AbstractBinder() {
@Override
protected void configure() {
bindFactory(HttpSessionFactory.class).to(HttpSession.class)
.proxy(true).proxyForSameScope(false).in(RequestScoped.class);
}

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});
}
}

Note that we did not define any explicit injection scope for the new injection binding. By default,
HK2 factories are bound in a HK2 PerLookup [https://hk2.java.net/apidocs/org/glassfish/hk2/api/
PerLookup.html] scope, which is in most cases a good choice and it is suitable also in our example.

To summarize the approach described above, here is a list of steps to follow when implementing custom
injection provider in your Jersey application :

• Implement your own HK2 Factory to provide the injectable instances.

• Use the HK2 Factory to define an injection binding for the injected instance via custom HK2
Binder.

• Register the custom HK2 Binder in your application ResourceConfig.

While the Factory-based approach is quite straight-forward and should help you to quickly prototype
or even implement final solutions, you should bear in mind, that your implementation does not need to
be based on factories. You can for instance bind your own types directly, while still taking advantage of
HK2 provided dependency injection. Also, in your implementation you may want to pay more attention to
defining or managing injection binding scopes for the sake of performance or correctness of your custom
injection extension.

Important
While the individual injection binding implementations vary and depend on your use case,
to enable your custom injection extension in Jersey, you must register your custom HK2
Binder [https://hk2.java.net/apidocs/org/glassfish/hk2/utilities/Binder.html] implementation in
your application ResourceConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/server/ResourceConfig.html]!

23.2. Defining Custom Injection Annotation

Java annotations are a convenient way for attaching metadata to various elements of Java code. Sometimes
you may even decide to combine the metadata with additional functionality, such as ability to automatically
inject the instances based on the annotation-provided metadata. The described scenario is one of the use
cases where having means of defining a custom injection annotation in your Jersey application may prove
to be useful. Obviously, this use case applies also to re-used existing, 3rd-party annotation types.

In the following example, we will describe how a custom injection annotation can be supported. Let's
start with defining a new custom SessionInject injection annotation that we will specifically use to
inject instances of HttpSession [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpSession.html]
(similarly to the previous example):

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.FIELD)
public @interface SessionInject { }

The above @SessionInject annotation should be then used as follows:

@Path("di-resource")
public class MyDiResource {

@SessionInject HttpSession httpSession;

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...

}
Again, the semantics remains the same as in the example described in the previous section. You want
to have the actual HTTP Servlet session instance injected into your MyDiResource instance. This
time however, you expect that the httpSession field to be injected must be annotated with a custom
@SessionInject annotation. Obviously, in this simplistic case the use of a custom injection annotation
is an overkill, however, the simplicity of the use case will help us to avoid use case specific distractions
and allow us better focus on the important aspects of the job of defining a custom injection annotation.

If you remember from the previous section, to make the injection in the code snippet above work, you
first need to implement the injection provider (HK2 Factory [https://hk2.java.net/apidocs/org/glassfish/
hk2/api/Factory.html]) as well as define the injection binding for the HttpSession type. That part we
have already done in the previous section. We will now focus on what needs to be done to inform the HK2
runtime about our @SessionInject annotation type that we want to support as a new injection point
marker annotation. To do that, we need to implement our own HK2 InjectionResolver [https://hk2.java.net/
apidocs/org/glassfish/hk2/api/InjectionResolver.html] for the annotation as demonstrated in the following
listing:

import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Named;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;

import org.glassfish.hk2.api.InjectionResolver;
import org.glassfish.hk2.api.ServiceHandle;

...

public class SessionInjectResolver implements InjectionResolver<SessionInject> {

@Inject
@Named(InjectionResolver.SYSTEM_RESOLVER_NAME)
InjectionResolver<Inject> systemInjectionResolver;

@Override
public Object resolve(Injectee injectee, ServiceHandle<?> handle) {
if (HttpSession.class == injectee.getRequiredType()) {
return systemInjectionResolver.resolve(injectee, handle);
}

return null;
}

@Override
public boolean isConstructorParameterIndicator() {
return false;
}

@Override
public boolean isMethodParameterIndicator() {
return false;
}

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The SessionInjectResolver above just delegates to the default HK2 system injection resolver to
do the actual work.

You again need to register your injection resolver with your Jersey application, and you can do it the same
was as in the previous case. Following listing includes HK2 binder that registers both, the injection provider
from the previous step as well as the new HK2 inject resolver with Jersey application ResourceConfig.
Note that in this case we're explicitly binding the SessionInjectResolver to a @Singleton [http://
docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/inject/Singleton.html] scope to avoid the unnecessary proliferation of
SessionInjectResolver instances in the application:

import org.glassfish.hk2.api.TypeLiteral;
import org.glassfish.hk2.utilities.binding.AbstractBinder;

import javax.inject.Singleton;

...

public class MyApplication extends ResourceConfig {

public MyApplication() {

...

register(new AbstractBinder() {
@Override
protected void configure() {
bindFactory(HttpSessionFactory.class).to(HttpSession.class);

bind(SessionInjectResolver.class)
.to(new TypeLiteral<InjectionResolver<SessionInject>>(){})
.in(Singleton.class);
}
});
}
}

23.3. Custom Life Cycle Management

The last use case discussed in this chapter will cover managing custom-scoped components within a
Jersey application. If not configured otherwise, then all JAX-RS resources are by default managed on a
per-request basis. A new instance of given resource class will be created for each incoming request that
should be handled by that resource class. Let say you want to have your resource class managed in a per-
session manner. It means a new instance of your resource class should be created only when a new Servlet
HttpSession [http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpSession.html] is established. (As
with previous examples in the chapter, this example assumes the deployment of your application to a
Servlet container.)

Following is an example of such a resource class that builds on the support for HttpSession injection
from the earlier examples described in this chapter. The PerSessionResource class allows you to
count the number of requests made within a single client session and provides you a handy sub-resource
method to obtain the number via a HTTP GET method call:

@Path("session")

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public class PerSessionResource {

@SessionInject HttpSession httpSession;

AtomicInteger counter = new AtomicInteger();

@GET
@Path("id")
public String getSession() {
counter.incrementAndGet();
return httpSession.getId();
}

@GET
@Path("count")
public int getSessionRequestCount() {
return counter.incrementAndGet();
}
}

Should the above resource be per-request scoped (default option), you would never be able to obtain any
other number but 1 from it's getReqs sub-resource method, because then for each request a new instance of
our PerSessionResource class would get created with a fresh instance counter field set to 0. The
value of this field would get incremented to 1 in the the getSessionRequestCount method before
this value is returned. In order to achieve what we want, we have to find a way how to bind the instances
of our PerSessionResource class to HttpSession instances and then reuse those bound instances
whenever new request bound to the same HTTP client session arrives. Let's see how to achieve this.

To get better control over your Jersey component instantiation and life cycle, you need to implement
a custom Jersey ComponentProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
server/spi/ComponentProvider.html] SPI, that would manage your custom components. Although it might
seem quite complex to implement such a thing, the component provider concept in Jersey is in fact very
simple. It allows you to define your own HK2 injection bindings for the types that you are interested
in, while informing the Jersey runtime at the same time that it should back out and leave the component
management to your provider in such a case. By default, if there is no custom component provider found
for any given component type, Jersey runtime assumes the role of the default component provider and
automatically defines the default HK2 binding for the component type.

Following example shows a simple ComponentProvider implementation, for our use case. Some
comments on the code follow.

import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Provider;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
...
import org.glassfish.hk2.api.DynamicConfiguration;
import org.glassfish.hk2.api.DynamicConfigurationService;
import org.glassfish.hk2.api.Factory;
import org.glassfish.hk2.api.PerLookup;
import org.glassfish.hk2.api.ServiceLocator;
import org.glassfish.hk2.utilities.binding.BindingBuilderFactory;
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.spi.ComponentProvider;

@javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider

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public class PerSessionComponentProvider implements ComponentProvider {

private ServiceLocator locator;

static class PerSessionFactory implements Factory<PerSessionResource>{

static ConcurrentHashMap<String, PerSessionResource> perSessionMap
= new ConcurrentHashMap<String, PerSessionResource>();

private final Provider<HttpServletRequest> requestProvider;

private final ServiceLocator locator;

@Inject
public PerSessionFactory(
Provider<HttpServletRequest> request,
ServiceLocator locator) {

this.requestProvider = request;
this.locator = locator;
}

@Override
@PerLookup
public PerSessionResource provide() {
final HttpSession session = requestProvider.get().getSession();

if (session.isNew()) {
PerSessionResource newInstance = createNewPerSessionResource();
perSessionMap.put(session.getId(), newInstance);

return newInstance;
} else {
return perSessionMap.get(session.getId());
}
}

@Override
public void dispose(PerSessionResource r) {
}

private PerSessionResource createNewPerSessionResource() {

final PerSessionResource perSessionResource = new PerSessionResource();
locator.inject(perSessionResource);
return perSessionResource;
}
}

@Override
public void initialize(ServiceLocator locator) {
this.locator = locator;
}

@Override
public boolean bind(Class<?> component, Set<Class<?>> providerContracts) {

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if (component == PerSessionResource.class) {

final DynamicConfigurationService dynamicConfigService =

locator.getService(DynamicConfigurationService.class);
final DynamicConfiguration dynamicConfiguration =
dynamicConfigService.createDynamicConfiguration();

BindingBuilderFactory
.addBinding(BindingBuilderFactory.newFactoryBinder(PerSessionFactor
.to(PerSessionResource.class), dynamicConfiguration);

dynamicConfiguration.commit();

return true;
}
return false;
}

@Override
public void done() {
}
}

The first and very important aspect of writing your own ComponentProvider in Jersey is to store
the actual HK2 ServiceLocator [https://hk2.java.net/apidocs/org/glassfish/hk2/api/ServiceLocator.html]
instance that will be passed to you as the only argument of the provider initialize method. Your
component provider instance will not get injected at all so this is more less your only chance to get access to
the HK2 runtime of your application. Please bear in mind, that at the time when your component provider
methods get invoked, the ServiceLocator is not fully configured yet. This limitation applies to all
component provider methods, as the main goal of any component provider is to take part in configuring
the application's ServiceLocator.

Now let's examine the bind method, which is where your provider tells the HK2 how to bind your
component. Jersey will invoke this method multiple times, once for each type that is registered with the
actual application. Every time the bind method is invoked, your component provider needs to decide if it
is taking control over the component or not. In our case we know exactly which Java type we are interested
in (PerSessionResource class), so the logic in our bind method is quite straightforward. If we see
our PerSessionResource class it is our turn to provide our custom binding for the class, otherwise
we just return false to make Jersey poll other providers and, if no provider kicks in, eventually provide
the default HK2 binding for the component. Please, refer to the HK2 [http://hk2.java.net/] documentation
for the details of the concrete HK2 APIs used in the bind method implementation above. The main idea
behind the code is that we register a new HK2 Factory [https://hk2.java.net/apidocs/org/glassfish/hk2/api/
Factory.html] (PerSessionFactory), to provide the PerSessionResource instances to HK2.

The implementation of the PerSessionFactory is is also included above. Please note that as opposed
to a component provider implementation that should never itself rely on an injection support, the factory
bound by our component provider would get injected just fine, since it is only instantiated later, once the
Jersey runtime for the application is fully initialized including the fully configured HK2 runtime. Whenever
a new session is seen, the factory instantiates and injects a new PerSessionResource instance. The instance
is then stored in the perSessionMap for later use (for future calls).

In a real life scenario, you would want to pay more attention to possible synchronization issues. Also, we
do not consider a mechanism that would clean-up any obsolete resources for closed, expired or otherwise
invalidated HTTP client sessions. We have omitted those considerations here for the sake of brevity of
our example.

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Chapter 24. Jersey CDI Container
Agnostic Support
24.1. Introduction
At the time of this writing, Java SE support is being discussed as one of important additions to CDI 2.0
specification. Existing CDI implementations brought this feature already, only container bootstrapping has
not yet been standardized. In Jersey version 2.15 we introduced Weld SE support, so that people could take
advantage of CDI features also when running in Java SE environment. As part of this work, the old Jersey
CDI module has been refactored so that it supports CDI integration in any CDI-enabled HTTP container.

Note
This chapter is mainly focused on server-side Jersey Weld SE support. We will mention other
containers that are known to be working with Jersey CDI integration modules. We will also
describe features demonstrated in Jersey HelloWorld Weld example and provide some hints on
how to enable Java SE support for other (non Weld) CDI implementations.

24.2. Containers Known to Work With Jersey

CDI Support
To stick with JAX-RS specification, Jersey has to support JAX-RS/CDI integration in Java EE
environment. The two containers supporting JAX-RS/CDI integration out of the box are Oracle GlassFish
and Oracle WebLogic application server.

Apache Tomcat is another Servlet container that is known to work fine with Jersey CDI support. However,
things do not work there out of the box. You need to enable CDI support in Tomcat e.g. using Weld.
Jersey CDI example [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/cdi-webapp] shows how a
WAR application could be packaged (see tomcat-packaging profile in the pom file) in order to enable
JAX-RS/CDI integration in Tomcat with Jersey using Weld.

If not bundled already with underlying Servlet container, the following Jersey module needs to be packaged
with the application or otherwise included in the container class-path:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext.cdi</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-cdi1x</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

24.3. Request Scope Binding

There is a common pattern for all above mentioned containers. Jersey CDI integration builds upon existing
CDI/Servlet integration there. In other words, in all above cases, Jersey application must be deployed as a
Servlet, where the underlying Servlet container has CDI integrated already and CDI container bootstrapped
properly.

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The key feature in CDI/Servlet integration is proper request scope binding. If this feature was missing,
you would not be able to use any request scoped CDI beans in your Jersey application. To make Jersey
work with CDI in containers that do not have request scope binding resolved, some extra work is required.

To allow smooth integration with Jersey request scope a new SPI, ExternalRequestScope [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/spi/ExternalRequestScope.html], was
introduced in Jersey version 2.15. An SPI implementation should be registered via the standard META-
INF/services mechanism and needs to make sure CDI implentation request scope has been properly
managed and request scoped data kept in the right context. For performance reasons, at most a single
external request scope provider is allowed by Jersey runtime.

24.4. Jersey Weld SE Support

The extra work to align HTTP request with CDI request scope was already done by Jersey team for Weld
2.x implementation. In order to utilize Jersey/Weld request scope binding, you need to use the following
module:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext.cdi</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-weld2-se</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

Then you could use your CDI backed JAX-RS components in a Jersey application running in Grizzly
HTTP container bootstrapped as follows:

Example 24.1. Bootstrapping Jersey application with Weld support on Grizzly

1 Weld weld = new Weld();
2 weld.initialize();
3
4 final HttpServer server = GrizzlyHttpServerFactory.createHttpServer
5
6 // ...
7
8 server.shutdownNow();
9 weld.shutdown();

The above pattern could be applied also for other Jersey supported HTTP containers as long as you stick
with CDI Weld 2.x implementation. You simply add the above mentioned jersey-weld2-se module
into you class-path and bootstrap the Weld container manually before starting the HTTP container.

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Chapter 25. Spring DI
Jersey provides an extension to support Spring DI. This enables Jersey to use Spring beans as JAX-
RS components (e.g. resources and providers) and also allows Spring to inject into Jersey managed
components.

The Spring extension module configuration is based on annotations. Spring beans are injected and JAX-RS
classes are made Spring managed using annotations. Injected Spring beans can have further dependencies
injected using Spring XML configuration. Spring singleton and request scopes are supported.

To enable JAX-RS resources to work Spring functionality that requires proxying, such as Spring
transaction management (with @Transactional), Spring Security and aspect oriented programming
(such as @Aspect), the resources must themselves be managed by Spring, by annotating with
@Component, @Service, @Controller or @Repository:

1 import javax.ws.rs.GET;
2 import javax.ws.rs.Path;
3 import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
4
5 @Component
6 @Path("/")
7 public class SomeResource {
8
9 @Transactional
10 @GET
11 public void updateResource() {
12 // ...
13 }
14 }
15

Limitations:

• Spring beans can't be injected directly into JAX-RS classes by using Spring XML configuration

25.1. Dependencies
If you want to use Jersey Spring DI support you will need to add the jersey-spring3 module into
the list of your dependencies:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-spring3</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

The above module adds transitive dependencies on Spring modules. See jersey-spring3
[https://jersey.java.net/project-info/2.25.1/jersey/project/jersey-spring3/dependencies.html] module
dependencies for more details about list and scope of dependencies. Please note the module depends on
The Spring/HK2 Bridge [https://hk2.java.net/spring-bridge/] that is used to inject Spring services into HK2
services or inject HK2 services into Spring services.

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25.2. Registration and Configuration

To use capabilities of Jersey Spring 3 DI support in your JAX-RS/Jersey application you need to have the
above mentioned module on your class-path.

25.3. Example
To see an example of Spring DI support in Jersey refer to the Spring DI Example [https://github.com/
jersey/jersey/tree/2.25.1/examples/helloworld-spring-webapp].

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Chapter 26. Jersey Test Framework
Jersey Test Framework originated as an internal tool used for verifying the correct implementation of
server-side components. Testing RESTful applications became a more pressing issue with "modern"
approaches like test-driven development and users started to look for a tool that could help with designing
and running the tests as fast as possible but with many options related to test execution environment.

Current implementation of Jersey Test Framework supports the following set of features:

• pre-configured client to access deployed application

• support for multiple containers - grizzly, in-memory, jdk, simple, jetty

• able to run against any external container

• automated configurable traffic logging

Jersey Test Framework is primarily based on JUnit but you can run tests using TestNG as well. It works
almost out-of-the box and it is easy to integrate it within your Maven-based project. While it is usable on
all environments where you can run JUnit, we support primarily the Maven-based setups.

26.1. Basics
1 public class SimpleTest extends JerseyTest {
2
3 @Path("hello")
4 public static class HelloResource {
5 @GET
6 public String getHello() {
7 return "Hello World!";
8 }
9 }
10
11 @Override
12 protected Application configure() {
13 return new ResourceConfig(HelloResource.class);
14 }
15
16 @Test
17 public void test() {
18 final String hello = target("hello").request().get(String.class);
19 assertEquals("Hello World!", hello);
20 }
21 }

If you want to develop a test using Jersey Test Framework, you need to subclass JerseyTest [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/JerseyTest.html] and configure the set of
resources and/or providers that will be deployed as part of the test application. This short code snippet
shows basic resource class HelloResource used in tests defined as part of the SimpleTest class.
The overridden configure method returns a ResourceConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ResourceConfig.html] of the test application,that contains only the
HelloResource resource class. ResourceConfig is a sub-class of JAX-RS Application [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Application.html]. It is a Jersey convenience

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class for configuring JAX-RS applications. ResourceConfig also implements JAX-RS Configurable
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Configurable.html] interface to make
the application configuration more flexible.

26.2. Supported Containers

JerseyTest [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/JerseyTest.html]
supports deploying applications on various containers, all (except the external container wrapper) need
to have some "glue" code to be supported. Currently Jersey Test Framework provides support for
Grizzly, In-Memory, JDK (com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer), Simple HTTP container
(org.simpleframework.http) and Jetty HTTP container (org.eclipse.jetty).

A test container is selected based on various inputs. JerseyTest#getTestContainerFactory() [https://

jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/
JerseyTest.html#getTestContainerFactory()] is always executed, so if you override it and
provide your own version of TestContainerFactory [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/test/spi/TestContainerFactory.html], nothing else will be considered. Setting a
system variable TestProperties#CONTAINER_FACTORY [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/test/TestProperties.html#CONTAINER_FACTORY] has similar effect. This way you
may defer the decision on which containers you want to run your tests from the compile time to the test
execution time. Default implementation of TestContainerFactory looks for container factories on
classpath. If more than one instance is found and there is a Grizzly test container factory among them, it
will be used; if not, a warning will be logged and the first found factory will be instantiated.

Following is a brief description of all container factories supported in Jersey Test Framework.

• Jersey provides 2 different test container factories based on Grizzly. The

GrizzlyTestContainerFactory creates a container that can run as a light-weight, plain HTTP
container. Almost all Jersey tests are using Grizzly HTTP test container factory. Second factory is
GrizzlyWebTestContainerFactory that is Servlet-based and supports Servlet deployment
context for tested applications. This factory can be useful when testing more complex Servlet-based
application deployments.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.test-framework.providers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-test-framework-provider-grizzly2</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

• In-Memory container is not a real container. It starts Jersey application and directly calls internal APIs
to handle request created by client provided by test framework. There is no network communication
involved. This containers does not support servlet and other container dependent features, but it is a
perfect choice for simple unit tests.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.test-framework.providers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-test-framework-provider-inmemory</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

• HttpServer from Oracle JDK is another supported test container.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.test-framework.providers</groupId>

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<artifactId>jersey-test-framework-provider-jdk-http</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

• Simple container (org.simpleframework.http) is another light-weight HTTP container that

integrates with Jersey and is supported by Jersey Test Framework.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.test-framework.providers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-test-framework-provider-simple</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

• Jetty container (org.eclipse.jetty) is another high-performance, light-weight HTTP server that

integrates with Jersey and is supported by Jersey Test Framework.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.test-framework.providers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-test-framework-provider-jetty</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

26.3. Running TestNG Tests

It is possible to run not only JUnit tests but also tests based on TestNG. In order to do this you need to
make sure the following 2 steps are fulfilled:

• Extend JerseyTestNg [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/

JerseyTestNg.html], or one of it's inner classes JerseyTestNg.ContainerPerClassTest [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/
JerseyTestNg.ContainerPerClassTest.html] / JerseyTestNg.ContainerPerMethodTest [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/
JerseyTestNg.ContainerPerMethodTest.html], instead of JerseyTest [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/JerseyTest.html].

• Add TestNG to your class-patch, i.e.:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.test-framework</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-test-framework-core</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
<version>...</version>
</dependency>

To discuss the former requirement in more depth we need to take a look at the differences between
JUnit and TestNG. JUnit creates a new instance of a test class for every test present in that class
which, from the point of view of Jersey Test Framework, means that new test container and client is
created for each test of a test class. However, TestNG creates only one instance of a test class and the
initialization of the test container depends more on setup/teardown methods (driven by @BeforeXXX
and @AfterXXX annotations) than in JUnit. This means that, basically, you can start one instance of test

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container for all tests present in a test class or separate test container for each and every test. For this
reason a separate subclasses of JerseyTestNg [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/test/JerseyTestNg.html] have been created:

• JerseyTestNg.ContainerPerClassTest [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/test/JerseyTestNg.ContainerPerClassTest.html] creates one container to run all the tests in. Setup
method is annotated with @BeforeClass, teardown method with @AfterClass.

For example take a look at ContainerPerClassTest test. It contains two test methods (first
and second), one singleton resource that returns an increasing sequence of number. Since we spawn
only one instance of a test container for the whole class the value expected in the first test is 1 and in
the second it's 2.

1 public class ContainerPerClassTest extends JerseyTestNg.ContainerPerClassTest

2
3 @Path("/")
4 @Singleton
5 @Produces("text/plain")
6 public static class Resource {
7
8 private int i = 1;
9
10 @GET
11 public int get() {
12 return i++;
13 }
14 }
15
16 @Override
17 protected Application configure() {
18 return new ResourceConfig(Resource.class);
19 }
20
21 @Test(priority = 1)
22 public void first() throws Exception {
23 test(1);
24 }
25
26 @Test(priority = 2)
27 public void second() throws Exception {
28 test(2);
29 }
30
31 private void test(final Integer expected) {
32 final Response response = target().request().get();
33
34 assertEquals(response.getStatus(), 200);
35 assertEquals(response.readEntity(Integer.class), expected);
36 }
37 }

• JerseyTestNg.ContainerPerMethodTest [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/test/JerseyTestNg.ContainerPerMethodTest.html] creates separate container for each test. Setup
method is annotated with @BeforeMethod, teardown method with @AfterMethod.

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We can create a similar test to the previous one. Take a look at ContainerPerMethodTest test. It
looks the same except the expected values and extending class: it contains two test methods (first and
second), one singleton resource that returns an increasing sequence of number. In this case we create
a separate test container for each test so value expected in the first test is 1 and in the second it's also 1.

1 public class ContainerPerMethodTest extends JerseyTestNg.ContainerPerMethodTe

2
3 @Path("/")
4 @Singleton
5 @Produces("text/plain")
6 public static class Resource {
7
8 private int i = 1;
9
10 @GET
11 public int get() {
12 return i++;
13 }
14 }
15
16 @Override
17 protected Application configure() {
18 return new ResourceConfig(Resource.class);
19 }
20
21 @Test
22 public void first() throws Exception {
23 test(1);
24 }
25
26 @Test
27 public void second() throws Exception {
28 test(1);
29 }
30
31 private void test(final Integer expected) {
32 final Response response = target().request().get();
33
34 assertEquals(response.getStatus(), 200);
35 assertEquals(response.readEntity(Integer.class), expected);
36 }
37 }

If you need more complex setup of your test you can achieve this by directly extending the
JerseyTestNg [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/JerseyTestNg.html]
class create setup/teardown methods suited to your needs and provide a strategy for storing and handling
a test container / client instance (see JerseyTestNg.configureStrategy(TestNgStrategy)
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26.4. Advanced features

26.4.1. JerseyTest Features
JerseyTest provide enable(...) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
test/JerseyTest.html#enable(java.lang.String)], forceEnable(...) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/JerseyTest.html#forceEnable(java.lang.String)] and disable(...) [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/JerseyTest.html#disable(java.lang.String)]
methods, that give you control over configuring values of the properties defined and described in the
TestProperties class. A typical code that overrides the default property values is listed below:

1 public class SimpleTest extends JerseyTest {

2 // ...
3
4 @Override
5 protected Application configure() {
6 enable(TestProperties.LOG_TRAFFIC);
7 enable(TestProperties.DUMP_ENTITY);
8
9 // ...
10
11 }
12 }

The code in the example above enables test traffic logging (inbound and outbound headers) as well as
dumping the HTTP message entity as part of the traffic logging.

26.4.2. External container

Complicated test scenarios may require fully started containers with complex setup configuration, that is
not easily doable with current Jersey container support. To address these use cases, Jersey Test Framework
providers general fallback mechanism - an External Test Container Factory. Support of this external
container "wrapper" is provided as the following module:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.test-framework.providers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-test-framework-provider-external</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

As indicated, the "container" exposed by this module is just a wrapper or stub, that redirects all request to
a configured host and port. Writing tests for this container is same as for any other but you have to provide
the information about host and port during the test execution:

mvn test -Djersey.test.host=myhost.org -Djersey.config.test.container.port=8080

26.4.3. Test Client configuration

Tests might require some advanced client configuration. This is possible by
overriding configureClient(ClientConfig clientConfig) [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/test/JerseyTest.html#configureClient(org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientConfig)] method.
Typical use case for this is registering more providers, such
as MessageBodyReader<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/

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MessageBodyReader.html]s or MessageBodyWriter<T> [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-

rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/MessageBodyWriter.html]s, or enabling additional features.

26.4.4. Accessing the logged test records

programmatically
Sometimes you might need to check a logged message as part of your test assertions.
For this purpose Jersey Test Framework provides convenient access to the logged records
via JerseyTest#getLastLoggedRecord() [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/test/JerseyTest.html#getLastLoggedRecord()] and JerseyTest#getLoggedRecords() [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/JerseyTest.html#getLoggedRecords()]
methods. Note that this feature is not enabled by default, see
TestProperties#RECORD_LOG_LEVEL [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/test/TestProperties.html#RECORD_LOG_LEVEL] for more information.

26.5. Parallel Testing with Jersey Test

Framework
For a purpose of running multiple test containers in parallel you need to set the
TestProperties.CONTAINER_PORT [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
test/TestProperties.CONTAINER_PORT.html] to 0 value. This will tell Jersey Test Framework (and the
underlying test container) to use the first available port.

You can set the value as a system property (via command line option) or directly in the test (to not affect
ports of other tests):

1 @Override
2 protected Application configure() {
3 // Find first available port.
4 forceSet(TestProperties.CONTAINER_PORT, "0");
5
6 return new ResourceConfig(Resource.class);
7 }

The easiest way to setup your JUnit or TestNG tests to run in parallel is to configure Maven Surefire
plugin. You can do this via configuration options parallel and threadCount, i.e.:

...
<configuration>
<parallel>methods</parallel>
<threadCount>5</threadCount>
...
</configuration>
...

For more information about this topic consult the following Maven Surefire articles:

• Fork Options and Parallel Test Execution [http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/

examples/fork-options-and-parallel-execution.html]

• Using TestNG - Running tests in parallel [http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/

examples/testng.html#Running_tests_in_parallel]

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• Using JUnit - Running tests in parallel [http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/

examples/junit.html#Running_tests_in_parallel]

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Jersey
27.1. Checking Out the Source
Jersey source code is available on GitHub. You can browse the sources at https://github.com/jersey/jersey.

In case you are not familiar with Git, we recommend reading some of the many "Getting Started with Git"
articles you can find on the web. For example this DZone RefCard [http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/
getting-started-git].

To clone the Jersey repository you can execute the following command on the command-line (provided
you have a command-line Git client installed on your machine):

git clone git://github.com/jersey/jersey.git

This creates read-only copy of Jersey workspace. If you want to contribute, please use "pull request":
https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request.

Milestones and releases of Jersey are tagged. You can list the tags by executing the standard Git command
in the repository directory:

git tag -l

or by visiting https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tags.

27.2. Building the Source

Jersey source code requires Java SE 7 or higher. The build is based on Maven. Maven 3.1 or higher is
highly recommended. Also it is recommended you use the following Maven options when building the
workspace (can be set in MAVEN_OPTS environment variable):

-Xmx1048m -XX:PermSize=64M -XX:MaxPermSize=128M

It is recommended to build all of Jersey after you cloned the source code repository. To do that execute the
following commands in the directory where jersey source repository was cloned (typically the directory
named "jersey"):

mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean install

This command will build Jersey, but skip the test execution. If you don't want to skip the tests, execute
the following instead:

mvn clean install

Building the whole Jersey project including tests could take significant amount of time.

27.3. Testing
Jersey contains many tests. Unit tests are in the individual Jersey modules, integration and end-to-end tests
are in jersey/tests/e2e directory. You can run tests related to a particular area using the following
command:

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mvn -Dtest=<pattern> test

where pattern may be a comma separated set of names matching tests classes or individual methods
(like LinkTest#testDelimiters).

27.4. Using NetBeans

NetBeans IDE [http://netbeans.org] has excellent maven support. The Jersey maven modules can be
loaded, built and tested in NetBeans without any additional NetBeans-specific project files.

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28.1. Migrating from Jersey 2.22 to 2.23
28.1.1. Release 2.23 Highlights
28.1.1.1. Introducing LoggingFeature
From version 2.23 onwards, LoggingFilter has been replaced with LoggingFeature [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/logging/LoggingFeature.html].

28.1.2. Deprecated APIs

Following APIs were deprecated:

• LoggingFilter has been marked as deprecated and will be removed in a subsequent

release. Use LoggingFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/logging/
LoggingFeature.html] instead. See chapter logging.

28.1.3. Breaking Changes

Last version contained a change in relative URI resolution in the location header. Even though the
change was fixing the discrepancy between the real behaviour and RFC7231, it also caused JAX-RS spec
incompatibility in some cases. Furthermore, there was no way to preserve backwards compatibility.

Therefore, the default behaviour was rollbacked and a new configuration

property was introduced to switch to the RFC7231 compliant
behaviour: ServerProperties.LOCATION_HEADER_RELATIVE_URI_RESOLUTION_RFC7231
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#LOCATION_HEADER_RELATIVE_URI_RESOLUTION_RFC7231]. Also,
the possibility to switch the URI resolution completely off remains with
the ServerProperties.LOCATION_HEADER_RELATIVE_URI_RESOLUTION_DISABLED [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#LOCATION_HEADER_RELATIVE_URI_RESOLUTION_DISABLED]
disabled switch. Both properties are false by default.

28.2. Migrating from Jersey 2.21 to 2.22

28.2.1. Breaking Changes
• In previous Jersey versions, if the resource method created a response containing relative URI in the
Location http header, the URI was resolved against base uri of the application. This behaviour was
not correct, as pointed out by JERSEY-2838 [https://java.net/jira/browse/2838]. With this change, the
URI is, by default, resolved against request base uri.

For example, having a resource at http://server.com/api/management/user, that returns

response with Location: foo, while the root of the app is http://server.com/api, the
resulting URI will be:

with Jersey 2.21 and earlier: http://server.com/api/foo

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with Jersey 2.22: http://server.com/api/management/foo

Please note, that the trailing slash is significant, so that if the URI ends with a slash (http://
server.com/api/management/user/), the output will be:

with Jersey 2.21 and earlier: http://server.com/api/foo

with Jersey 2.22: http://server.com/api/management/user/foo

Alternatively, the entire URI resolving logic can be switched off by newly introduced
ServerProperties.LOCATION_HEADER_RELATIVE_URI_RESOLUTION_DISABLED [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#LOCATION_HEADER_RELATIVE_URI_RESOLUTION_DISABLED]
property. If the value is true, Jersey will not change the URI contained in the Location header at
all (even if this behaviour may not match with behaviour described in JavaDoc).

28.3. Migrating from Jersey 2.19 to 2.20

28.3.1. Breaking Changes
• New parameter, org.glassfish.hk2.api.ServiceLocator, has been added
to ExternalRequestScope [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/spi/
ExternalRequestScope.html] methods. This is to allow 3rd party component providers to hook up with
the actual HK2 locator in case of multiple Jersey applications are running in paralell within a single 3rd
party component container. The change was driven by CDI/Servlet requirements.

28.4. Migrating from Jersey 2.18 to 2.19

28.4.1. Breaking Changes
• New method, close, has been added to ResourceFinder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/server/ResourceFinder.html]. It's intention is to release allocated/opened resources
(such as streams) without a need to iterate through the whole ResourceFinder.

28.5. Migrating from Jersey 2.17 to 2.18

28.5.1. Release 2.18 Highlights
28.5.1.1. Updated to MOXy 2.6
Jersey has updated version of MOXy (XML/JSON provider) to version 2.6. Among some bug fixes there
are other notable changes (some of them breaking) that you should be aware of:

• Redesign of type property in JSON processing [https://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/

DesignDocs/459464] - Special handling of JSON type property is deprecated. If there is need to
identify type of JSON object - due to missing root element or some special inheritance requirements,
it is necessary to specify fully qualified type property with http://www.w3.org/2001/
XMLSchema-instance namespace.

• Bean Validation in MOXy [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=241506]

• MOXy support for for Java API for JSON Processing (JSR-353) [https://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/
DesignDocs/405161]

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28.5.1.2. Promoted Public Beta APIs

Several experimental Jersey APIs have matured enough and as such we have decided to promote them
from Beta [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/Beta.html] status, namely:

• Jersey Reactive Client API. Also Reactive Client moved from incubator to extension (umbrella) module.

• Jersey client-side ClientLifecycleListener [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/

jersey/client/ClientLifecycleListener.html] SPI.

• Jersey server-side ContainerLifecycleListener [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/

glassfish/jersey/server/spi/ContainerLifecycleListener.html] SPI.

• Jersey server-side (MVC) @ErrorTemplate [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/

jersey/server/mvc/ErrorTemplate.html] annotation.

• Jersey test framework (client-side) LoopBackConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/

jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/util/client/LoopBackConnectorProvider.html] connector.

• Jersey test framework (server-side) ContainerRequestBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/

jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/util/server/ContainerRequestBuilder.html] class.

These APIs are now part of the official public Jersey 2.x API.

28.5.2. Removed deprecated APIs

Following, already deprecated, APIs were removed:

• org.glassfish.jersey.apache.connector.ApacheClientProperties - constant
SSL_CONFIG has been removed. Use ClientBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/client/ClientBuilder.html] methods to configure SSL in a Client [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Client.html] instance.

• org.glassfish.jersey.jetty.connector.JettyClientProperties - constant
SSL_CONFIG has been removed. Use ClientBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/
javax/ws/rs/client/ClientBuilder.html] methods to configure SSL in a Client [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Client.html] instance.

• FreemarkerMvcFeature.TEMPLATES_BASE_PATH - constant has been

unified across MVC modules and the deprecated one has been
removed. Use FreemarkerMvcFeature.TEMPLATE_BASE_PATH or property
jersey.config.server.mvc.templateBasePath.freemarker instead.

• JspMvcFeature.TEMPLATES_BASE_PATH - constant has been unified across MVC modules and

the deprecated one has been removed. Use JspMvcFeature.TEMPLATE_BASE_PATH or property
jersey.config.server.mvc.templateBasePath.jsp instead.

28.5.3. Breaking Changes

• Integration of executor providers for Jersey runtime has been unified and refactored.
As a result, the org.glassfish.jersey.spi.RequestExecutorProvider and
org.glassfish.jersey.spi.RuntimeThreadProvider SPIs have been removed from
Jersey. A new, common & generic executor service providers have been introduced
instead: ExecutorServiceProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
spi/ExecutorServiceProvider.html] and ScheduledExecutorServiceProvider [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/spi/ScheduledExecutorServiceProvider.html]. These new
providers are used to support custom qualified executor service injection, including the refactored use

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cases of client asynchronous request execution, server-side managed asynchronous request processing
as well as server-side background task scheduler.

28.6. Migrating from Jersey 2.16 to 2.17

28.6.1. Release 2.17 Highlights
28.6.1.1. CDI integration in EAR packaged WARs
From version 2.17 onwards, it's possible to use CDI with JAX-RS web-applications packaged in EAR. All
supported HK2/CDI injections now work as expected for JAX-RS application deployed in the mentioned
fashion. One need to make sure that modules jersey-cdi1x and jersey-cdi1x-servlet are
present in Servlet container (that supports EARs).

28.7. Migrating from Jersey 2.15 to 2.16

28.7.1. Release 2.16 Highlights
28.7.1.1. JAX-B providers separated from the core
From version 2.16 onwards, all JAX-B providers are being bundled in a separate module.

28.7.1.2. Performance gain when using Sub-Resource Locators

We improved the performance for using sub-resource locators in an Jersey application. The performance
gains are available for cases when the sub-resource locator method returns either a resource class (return
value is e.g. Class<?> or Class<MySubResource>) or a (non-proxied) resource instance (when
return value is an instance of MySubResource class).

28.7.1.3. More unified connector configuration options

Jetty connector and Apache connector have been previously using their own custom properties to set
SSL context on a connector. These properties have been deprecated and the code has been updated
to read the SSL context information from the JAX-RS client configuration. This means that all Jersey
connectors now properly accept SSL configuration as configured via standard JAX-RS ClientBuilder
[https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/ClientBuilder.html] methods.

Previously, all Jersey connectors have been using their own default chunk size when HTTP
chunked coding was used. Since Jersey 2.16, there is a new default chunk size value used
by all connectors, if a custom chunk size is not set. The new default value is stored under
ClientProperties.DEFAULT_CHUNK_SIZE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/ClientProperties.html#DEFAULT_CHUNK_SIZE] client property.

28.7.2. Deprecated APIs

Following APIs were deprecated:

• org.glassfish.jersey.apache.connector.ApacheClientProperties - constant
SSL_CONFIG has been marked as deprecated and will be removed in a subsequent release. Use
ClientBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/ClientBuilder.html]
methods to configure SSL in a Client [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
client/Client.html] instance.

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• org.glassfish.jersey.jetty.connector.JettyClientProperties - constant
SSL_CONFIG has been marked as deprecated and will be removed in a subsequent release. Use
ClientBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/ClientBuilder.html]
methods to configure SSL in a Client [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/
client/Client.html] instance.

28.7.3. Breaking Changes

• JAX-B support modularization might cause breaking changes for those users relying on JAX-B and
directly referring to the Jersey core-common module:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-common</artifactId>
<version>${pre-2.16-version}</version>
</dependency>

The following needs to be included in addition from version 2.16 on:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-media-jaxb</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

• MediaType's quality source parameters (qs) reuse the same parsing as quality parameters. This means
that values higher than 1.0 throw ParseException. I.e. following example is not allowed any more:

@Path("/")
@Produces("text/html;qs=5") // wrong 'qs' value
public class Bookstore { ... }

28.8. Migrating to 2.15

28.8.1. Release 2.15 Highlights
28.8.1.1. Container agnostic CDI support
Before 2.15, CDI integration was supported primarily in Java EE containers with built-in CDI support.
From version 2.15 onwards, it is possible to leverage CDI integration also outside of Java EE
environment. A new example, helloworld-weld [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/master/examples/
helloworld-weld], has been introduced to demonstrate the new feature using Grizzly HTTP server.
Another example application, cdi-webapp [https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/master/examples/cdi-
webapp], has been updated so that it enables Apache Tomcat Server deployment.

28.8.2. Breaking Changes

• CDI support improvement caused breaking changes for those users directly referring to the following
CDI supporting Jersey module in maven:

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<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers.glassfish</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-gf-cdi</artifactId>
<version>${pre-2.15-version}</version>
</dependency>

The above dependency needs to be replaced with:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext.cdi</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-cdi1x</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

The following needs to be included in addition if you want to leverage CDI JTA support:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext.cdi</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-cdi1x-transaction</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

28.9. Migrating from Jersey 2.11 to 2.12

28.9.1. Release 2.12 Highlights
Following experimental APIs have been promoted to become part of public Jersey API:

• Jersey client-side HttpAuthenticationFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/

glassfish/jersey/client/authentication/HttpAuthenticationFeature.html] API.

• Jersey server-side DestroyListener [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/

server/monitoring/DestroyListener.html] (formerly
ExtendedMonitoringStatisticsListener), which has been slightly refactored and is now a
separate interface (e.g. not extending MonitoringStatisticsListener), hence providing better
compatibility with lambdas.

These APIs are now part of the official public Jersey 2.x API.

28.9.2. Breaking Changes

• Because of a bug fix for issue JERSEY-2602 [https://java.net/jira/browse/JERSEY-2602], we re-
generate WADL classes from wadl.xsd to make sure the getters for boolean properties starts with
is instead of get as in Jersey 1 and Jersey <= 2.6.

• For performance purposes a new server property ServerProperties.MONITORING_ENABLED [https://

jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#MONITORING_ENABLED] has been introduced. It is possible
to enable just basic almost static monitoring information using the
property. It allows to inject ApplicationInfo [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/

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jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/monitoring/ApplicationInfo.html] object, renamed original

class org.glassfish.jersey.server.monitoring.ApplicationStatistics. And
MonitoringStatistics [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
monitoring/MonitoringStatistics.html] no more have a reference to ApplicationStatistics,
method getApplicationStatistics() has been removed.
gitc

28.10. Migrating from Jersey 2.10 to 2.11

28.10.1. Release 2.11 Highlights
28.10.1.1. Promoted Public Beta APIs
Several experimental Jersey APIs have matured enough and as such we have decided to promote them
from Beta [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/Beta.html] status, namely:

• Jersey client-side ConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/

client/spi/ConnectorProvider.html] SPI.

• Jersey server-side ResponseErrorMapper [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/

jersey/server/spi/ResponseErrorMapper.html] SPI.

These APIs are now part of the official public Jersey 2.x API.

28.10.1.2. Not closing provided streams in message body providers

Jersey is now preventing message body providers (MBR, MBW) from closing given input/output stream.
With this change Jersey is enforcing the JavaDoc statements present in message body providers.

28.10.1.3. Jackson 1
We have reintroduced support for JSON processing via Jackson 1.x JSON provider (1.9.11). In order to
use Jackson 1 in your application you need to add jersey-media-json-jackson1 module (+ it's
dependencies) to your class-path and register Jackson1Feature in your application (server or client).

28.10.1.4. ClientLifecycleListener
Client-side providers (such asClientRequestFilters) implementing the new
org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientLifecycleListener interface will be notified
when various lifecycle events occur. Currently client runtime initialization triggers the onInit()
method and client closing triggers onClose() method. Such providers implementing the
ClientLifecycleListener can be registered in a common way, e.g. into a JerseyClient or
JerseyWebTarget instance, or into a (potentially) auto discoverable feature context.

28.11. Migrating from Jersey 2.9 to 2.10

28.11.1. Removed deprecated APIs
Following, already deprecated, APIs were removed:

• org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceModelContext (not used)

• org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceModelListener (not used)

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28.12. Migrating from Jersey 2.8 to 2.9

28.12.1. Release 2.9 Highlights
28.12.1.1. Declarative Linking
Gerard updated the Declarative Linking extension module which has been ported to Jersey 2 in version
2.6. You can read more about what Declarative Linking does and what it's capable of in the following
blog posts:

• Declarative Linking in Jersey 2.9 and up [http://kingsfleet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/declarative-linking-

in-jersey-29.html]

• Reading and writing JAX-RS Link objects [http://kingsfleet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/reading-and-

writing-jax-rs-link-objects.html]

28.12.1.2. Jackson 2
Our media module that supports working with JSON via Jackson library has been updated to use Jackson
2.x (2.3.2). All samples and tests have been rewritten to use Jackson 2 as well. In order to use Jackson 2 in
your application you need to add jersey-media-json-jackson (+ it's Jackson dependencies) to your class-
path and register JacksonFeature in your application.

28.12.1.3. META-INF/services
We dropped automatic registration of message body providers (MessageBodyWriter,
MessageBodyReader) and exception mappers via META-INF/services mechanism. This functionality can
be restored by adding jersey-metainf-services module to the class-path of your application.

Note: This change may affect 3rd party libraries (e.g. Jackson 2.x) in a way their provider would not be
registered in an JAX-RS app. You need to either register them manually or use mentioned jersey-
metainf-services module.

28.12.1.4. Jersey Test Framework

Jersey Test Framework now supports TestNG to run the tests (in addition to the JUnit, which is supported
by default). You can now run the tests in parallel using either JUnit or TestNG. See chapters dedicated to
TestNG and parallel testing for more information: Section 26.3, “Running TestNG Tests” and Section 26.5,
“Parallel Testing with Jersey Test Framework”.

28.12.2. Changes
• Some of the feature specific configuration properties (disable WADL, disable BV, disable
JSON-Processing, enable Monitoring), and their server/client counterparts, are no longer
affected by a value of properties CommonProperties.FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE
or CommonProperties.METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE. The specific properties
have to be used to change default behaviour of mentioned features (e.g.
ServerProperties.WADL_FEATURE_DISABLE).

• Automatic registration of MessageBodyWriter, MessageBodyReaders and

ExceptionMappers via META-INF/services mechanism has been removed. Disabling the
automatic registration of providers via META-INF/services may affect 3rd party libraries (i.e.
Jackson 2.x) that are using this mechanism to register it's providers. In order to restore this functionality

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the org.glassfish.jersey.ext:jersey-metainf-services has to be added on the

classpath. Otherwise such providers has to be registered manually.

• The Jackson JSON Jersey module has been updated to use Jackson 2.x instead of Jackson 1.x. This
means that all the code that has been using Jackson 1.x for JSON (de)serialization has to be migrated
to Jackson 2.x.

28.13. Migrating from Jersey 2.7 to 2.8

28.13.1. Changes
• Because of a bug fix for issue JERSEY-2458 [https://java.net/jira/browse/JERSEY-2458], there has
been a slight change in the behavior of UriInfo [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/
ws/rs/core/UriInfo.html] getPath and getPathSegments methods. The getPath methods no
longer return a path prefixed with a slash ('/'), instead they now correctly return a request path
relative to the base request URI. Also, the UriInfo now correctly handles requests which URI contains
empty path segments (e.g. http://localhost///a/b//c). These empty path segments are now
correctly included in the lists returned by the UriInfo.getPathSegments methods.

• SseFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/
SseFeature.html] now gets automatically discovered and enabled if the SSE
module is present on the class path. This behavior can be suppressed by
setting DISABLE_SSE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/
SseFeature.html#DISABLE_SSE] property to true. The behavior can also be selectively suppressed
in either client or server runtime by setting the DISABLE_SSE_CLIENT [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/SseFeature.html#DISABLE_SSE_CLIENT] or
DISABLE_SSE_SERVER [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/
sse/SseFeature.html#DISABLE_SSE_SERVER] property respectively.

• Deprecated getDestroyTime method has been removed from

org.glassfish.jersey.server.monitoring.ApplicationStatistics. To get the
application shutdown information, a ContainerLifecycleListener [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/spi/ContainerLifecycleListener.html] should be registered and its
onShutdown method implemented to listen to and process the application shutdown event.

• Method triggerEvent(RequestEvent.Type) has been removed from the

public ContainerRequest [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ContainerRequest.html] API. This method has never been intended for public, application-level use.

• In Jersey 2.7 and earlier it was (under certain conditions) possible to supply
custom TestContainerFactory [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/test/
spi/TestContainerFactory.html] as part of the tested JAX-RS / Jersey application. This factory
would be picked and used by JerseyTest [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/test/JerseyTest.html] to instantiate TestContainer [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/test/spi/TestContainer.html] that will host the tested application. This feature
was unreliable and redundant. As such, support for the feature has been removed. To
specify a custom TestContainerFactory to be used by your JerseyTest subclass,
please override the JerseyTest.getTestContainerFactory method instead. Overriding
getTestContainerFactory now remains the only reliable way of specifying custom
TestContainerFactory implementation to be used in your tests.

• Protected method setTestContainerFactory has been removed from the JerseyTest API
as calling the method had no effect on the TestContainerFactory instance used by the
JerseyTest subclass.

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• Protected method getClient has been removed from the JerseyTest API. To configure test client
instances, please override the configureClient method instead.

• Utility methods JerseyTest that provide access to pre-configured Client [https://

jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Client.html] and WebTarget [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/WebTarget.html] instances (client(),
target(...)) have been made final to prevent overriding in subclasses and thus ensure consistency
of the jersey test framework functionality.

• JerseyTest constructor JerseyTest(Class<? extends Application>) has been made

deprecated and will be removed in the subsequent Jersey release.

• It was previously possible to pass in a custom ContainerProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/

jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/spi/ContainerProvider.html] that was supposed to deploy and run the
application as one of the JAX-RS / Jersey application providers. This ability has been removed without
any substitute as the concept was fundamentally flawed. Typical use cases should not be affected by
this change.

• Factory methods createHttpServer which take Jersey ApplicationHandler [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ApplicationHandler.html] as one of the input
parameters have been removed from the Jersey container factory API as inherently broken. This
impacts GrizzlyHttpServerFactory [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
grizzly2/httpserver/GrizzlyHttpServerFactory.html], JdkHttpServerFactory [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/jdkhttp/JdkHttpServerFactory.html],
JettyHttpContainerFactory [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/jetty/
JettyHttpContainerFactory.html] and SimpleContainerFactory [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/simple/SimpleContainerFactory.html] implementations. The methods
that take ResourceConfig [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
ResourceConfig.html] as input parameter should be used instead. Typical use cases should not be
affected by this change.

• Method registerAdditionalBinders on ApplicationHandler [https://jersey.java.net/

apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ApplicationHandler.html] has been removed from the
public API. Please use the specific ApplicationHandler constructor that accepts custom HK2
binders instead.

• Several configuration properties were renamed, especially those having client and server versions along
with the common version in CommonProperties. Please see following table for complete reference:

Table 28.1. List of changed configuration properties:

Constant Old value (Jersey 2.7 and New value (Jersey 2.8+)
before)
ClientProperties.FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE
jersey.config.disableAutoDiscovery.client
jersey.config.client.disableAutoDis
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE]
ServerProperties.FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE
jersey.config.disableAutoDiscovery.server
jersey.config.server.disableAutoDis
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE]

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Constant Old value (Jersey 2.7 and New value (Jersey 2.8+)
before)
ClientProperties.JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE
jersey.config.disableJsonProcessing.client
jersey.config.client.disableJsonPro
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE]
ServerProperties.JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE
jersey.config.disableJsonProcessing.server
jersey.config.server.disableJsonPro
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE]
ClientProperties.METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE
jersey.config.disableMetainfServicesLookup.client
jersey.config.client.disableMetainf
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE]
ServerProperties.METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE
jersey.config.disableMetainfServicesLookup.server
jersey.config.server.disableMetainf
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE]
ClientProperties.MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE
jersey.config.disableMoxyJson.client
jersey.config.client.disableMoxyJso
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE]
ServerProperties.MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE
jersey.config.disableMoxyJson.server
jersey.config.server.disableMoxyJso
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE]
ClientProperties.OUTBOUND_CONTENT_LENGTH_BUFFER
jersey.config.contentLength.buffer.client
jersey.config.client.contentLength.
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#OUTBOUND_CONTENT_LENGTH_BUFFER]
ServerProperties.OUTBOUND_CONTENT_LENGTH_BUFFER
jersey.config.contentLength.buffer.server
jersey.config.server.contentLength.
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#OUTBOUND_CONTENT_LENGTH_BUFFER]
ServerProperties.TRACING jersey.config.server.tracing
jersey.config.server.tracing.type
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#TRACING]

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The old names are still working for now, but are deprecated. There is a fallback mechanism implemented
while reading the property and each get, that resolves the value from the old-named property, will log
a CONFIG level warning.

28.14. Migrating from Jersey 2.6 to 2.7

28.14.1. Changes
• Until version 2.6, Jersey was compiled with Java SE 6. This has changes in Jersey 2.7. Now almost all
Jersey components are compiled with Java SE 7 target. It means, that you will need at least Java SE
7 to be able to compile and run your application that is using latest Jersey. Only core-common and
core-client modules are still compiled with Java class version runnable with Java SE 6.

• MVC support: method writeTo of TemplateProcessor [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/

org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/spi/TemplateProcessor.html] was modified by adding an argument
MultivaluedMap<String, Object> httpHeaders. This is an incompatible change (the
method was modified directly in the interface). All Jersey provided MVC implementation were adjusted
but if you have your own MVC implementation then you need to modify the method signature of the
implementation.

• A minor JAX-RS incompatibility issue has been recently discovered and reported (see JERSEY-2387
[https://java.net/jira/browse/JERSEY-2387]). As part of the fix, minor breaking changes related to
URI resolving and creation have been introduced in the behavior of UriBuilder [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/UriBuilder.html], Link.Builder [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Link.Builder.html] and WebTarget [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/WebTarget.html] classes. It is no longer possible to
successfully build a new URI instance from a UriBuilder that contains unresolved template
parameters. An IllegalArgumentException will be thrown in such case, as mandated by JAX-
RS API javadoc. Similarly, it is not possible to successfully create a Link [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/core/Link.html] instance from a URI template with unresolved
template parameters. Also, it is not possible to successfully send a request on a WebTarget that
represents a URI template that does not have all the template parameters properly resolved. Any attempt
to do so will fail with an exception. Note that this also applies to any managed clients injected into JAX-
RS server-side components using Uri [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
server/Uri.html] annotation.

In Jersey 2.6 and earlier, producing a URI from an incompletely resolved URI template would succeed
and all unresolved template parameter locations would be encoded without change into the resulting
URI, for example "/path/{param}" would be implicitly encoded as "/path/%7Bparam%7D".
While we do not expect our users to depend on this functionality, if the former behavior is desired for
some reason, UriComponent.encodeTemplateNames method can be used instead:

URI.create(UriComponent.encodeTemplateNames(UriBuilder.fromUri("/path/{param}").t

or simply

URI.create(UriComponent.encodeTemplateNames("/path/{param}"));

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28.15. Migrating from Jersey 2.5.1 to 2.6

28.15.1. Guava and ASM have been embedded
Jersey no longer depend directly on Guava and ASM artifacts which means that users are free to use their
own versions of mentioned libraries.

New bundle has been created for Guava (bundles/repackaged/jersey-guava), with Maven
coordinates: org.glassfish.jersey.bundles.repackaged:jersey-guava

(Repackaged) ASM is now part of Jersey Server. Jersey currently uses ASM 5 for package-scanning
capabilities.

28.15.2. Deprecated APIs

Following APIs were deprecated:

• org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.HttpDateFormat - method
getPreferedDateFormat() has been marked as deprecated due to typo in the name. New method
getPreferredDateFormat() should be used instead.

28.15.3. Removed deprecated APIs

Following, already deprecated, APIs were removed:

• org.glassfish.jersey.client.filter.HttpBasicAuthFilter and
org.glassfish.jersey.client.filter.HttpDigestAuthFilter (use
HttpAuthenticationFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
authentication/HttpAuthenticationFeature.html] instead)

• org.glassfish.jersey.apache.connector.ApacheClientProperties.HTTP_PARAMS
(use
org.glassfish.jersey.apache.connector.ApacheClientProperties#REQUEST_CONFIG
instead),
org.glassfish.jersey.apache.connector.ApacheClientProperties.PROXY_URI,
org.glassfish.jersey.apache.connector.ApacheClientProperties.PROXY_USERNAME,
org.glassfish.jersey.apache.connector.ApacheClientProperties.PROXY_PASSWORD
(use corresponding ClientProperties [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
client/ClientProperties.html] instead.

• org.glassfish.jersey.server.validation.ValidationConfig.setMessageInterpolator
org.glassfish.jersey.server.validation.ValidationConfig.setTraversableResolver
org.glassfish.jersey.server.validation.ValidationConfig.setConstraintValidatorFac
org.glassfish.jersey.server.validation.ValidationConfig.setParameterNameProvider
(use corresponding methods of the same class without "set" prefix in the method names).

• org.glassfish.jersey.server.mvc.MvcProperties (use properties of

org.glassfish.jersey.server.mvc.MvcFeature instead).

• MVC does not allow to specify the resolving class. Resolving class is used to create a path of the
template. Changes are:

Annotation attribute Class<?>

org.glassfish.jersey.server.mvc.Template.resolvingClass() (the attribute

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was obsolete and therefore removed. Resolving class now always the resource class in which the MVC
resource method is defined).

resolvingClass was removed from Viewable [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/

glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/Viewable.html]. The constructor no longer accepts this argument and there
is no getter for this field.

• org.glassfish.jersey.server.mvc.freemarker.FreemarkerProperties (use
FreemarkerMvcFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/
freemarker/FreemarkerMvcFeature.html] instead)

• org.glassfish.jersey.server.mvc.jsp.JspProperties (use JspMvcFeature [https://

jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/jsp/JspMvcFeature.html] instead)

• org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.RuntimeResource.getFirstParentResource()
(use Resource.getParent() [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
model/Resource.html#getParent()] instead).

• WADL is by default displayed in the simplified form. It does not contain supporting resources
like OPTIONS methods or /application.wadl itself. In order to get the full WADL use
query param detail=true. For example make a GET request to http://localhost:8080/
application.wadl?detail=true.

28.16. Migrating from Jersey 2.5 to 2.5.1

• WADL is by default displayed in the simplified form. It does not contain supporting resources
like OPTIONS methods or /application.wadl itself. In order to get the full WADL use
query param detail=true. For example make a GET request to http://localhost:8080/
application.wadl?detail=true.

28.17. Migrating from Jersey 2.4.1 to 2.5

28.17.1. Client-side API and SPI changes
• Client chunked encoding configuration behaviour has changed:

Jersey client uses chunked encoding (streaming) for serialization of the entity as a default option. Before
Jersey 2.5 release entity buffering has been used by default. The size of the chunk can still be controlled
by ClientProperties.CHUNKED_ENCODING_SIZE [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/client/ClientProperties.html#CHUNKED_ENCODING_SIZE] property, this property
however no longer enforces the use of chunked encoding. To control request
entity buffering and chunked transfer coding selection, please utilize use the new
ClientProperties.REQUEST_ENTITY_PROCESSING [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/client/ClientProperties.html#REQUEST_ENTITY_PROCESSING] property. The
behaviour of the property is however not unified across the available Connector [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/spi/Connector.html] implementations
and depends on the connector implementation configured for the Client [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Client.html] instance. Default connector
produced by HttpUrlConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/HttpUrlConnector.html] still uses buffering as default options due to bugs
in HttpURLConnection. On the other hand, Jetty HTTP Client based connectors
produced by JettyConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
jetty/connector/JettyConnectorProvider.html] do not support chunked encoding at all.

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Please note that this is not a newly introduced limitation - it's merely an official acknowledgement of
the fact that different connectors have different capabilities and limitations - something that has always
been part of the individual connector implementations, it just was not publicly acknowledged.

• New ConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/spi/

ConnectorProvider.html] SPI has been introduced to decouple Connector [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/spi/Connector.html] instantiation from Client [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/client/Client.html] instance boot-strapping. As
such, the connector(Connector) method has been removed from ClientConfig [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/ClientConfig.html] API. It has been
replaced with a newly introduced connectorProvider(ConnectorProvider) method.

• org.glassfish.jersey.client.HttpUrlConnector has been removed from the

public API. HttpUrlConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/HttpUrlConnector.html] should be used to produce HttpURLConnection [http://
docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/HttpURLConnection.html] connector instances instead.

• ClientProperties.HTTP_URL_CONNECTION_SET_METHOD_WORKAROUND property has

been moved to the new HttpUrlConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/client/HttpUrlConnector.html] has been introduced in Jersey 2.4) has been moved to
the new HttpUrlConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
client/HttpUrlConnector.html] class as this property is specific to the connector instances
created by HttpUrlConnectorProvider only. The property has been also renamed
to HttpUrlConnector.SET_METHOD_WORKAROUND [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/
org/glassfish/jersey/client/HttpUrlConnectorProvider.html#SET_METHOD_WORKAROUND]. The
name of the property remains the same -
jersey.config.client.httpUrlConnection.setMethodWorkaround.

• ClientProperties.HTTP_URL_CONNECTOR_FIX_LENGTH_STREAMING property (that

class as this property is specific to the connector instances created by
HttpUrlConnectorProvider only. The property has been also renamed
to HttpUrlConnectorProvider.USE_FIXED_LENGTH_STREAMING [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
HttpUrlConnectorProvider.html#USE_FIXED_LENGTH_STREAMING] and the new property name
is jersey.config.client.httpUrlConnector.useFixedLengthStreaming.

• org.glassfish.jersey.grizzly.connector.GrizzlyConnector has been removed

from the public API. GrizzlyConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/grizzly/connector/GrizzlyConnectorProvider.html] should be used to produce Grizzly
Asynchronous HTTP Client connector instances instead.

• Public constructor has been removed from the

org.glassfish.jersey.apache.connector.ApacheConnector; API.
ApacheConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/apache/
connector/ApacheConnectorProvider.html] should be used to provide Apache HTTP Client connector
instances instead.

• Public constructor has been removed from the

org.glassfish.jersey.jetty.connector.JettyConnector; API.
JettyConnectorProvider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/jetty/
connector/JettyConnectorProvider.html] should be used to provide Jetty HTTP Client connector
instances instead.

• Renamed property CACHING_TEMPLATES_ENABLED in MustacheMvcFeature [https://

jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/mvc/mustache/

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MustacheMvcFeature.html] from
jersey.config.server.mvc.caching.mustache.enabled to
jersey.config.server.mvc.caching.mustache.

• Authentication filters
org.glassfish.jersey.client.filter.HttpBasicAuthFilter and
org.glassfish.jersey.client.filter.HttpDigestAuthFilter were deprecated
and replaced by HttpAuthenticationFeature [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/client/authentication/HttpAuthenticationFeature.html].

28.17.2. Other changes

• The ContainerLifecycleListener [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
server/spi/ContainerLifecycleListener.html] invokes event onStartup and onShutdown also when
application is being started or stopped because of application redeploy. The interface was marked as
a Beta now.

• The monitoring statistics method ApplicationStatistics.getDestroyTime() is

deprecated and returns always null. Use ContainerLifecycleListener [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/spi/ContainerLifecycleListener.html] to listen on
application destroy and get the destroy time.

• org.glassfish.jersey.spi.ResponseExecutorsProvider contract has been

completely removed from the Jersey SPI as it was inconsistently used by Jersey runtime and we did
not find a suitable use case where a custom response executor would make sense. While we have no
indication that the removed SPI is used in the Jersey community, please do not hesitate to contact us in
case you think that you have a valid use case where the use of a custom response executor makes sense.

• org.glassfish.jersey.spi.RequestsExecutorsProvider contract has been renamed

to org.glassfish.jersey.spi.RequestsExecutorsProvider. It has been also
extended with an additional releaseRequestingExecutor method to address executor shutdown
handling issues reported in JERSEY-2205 [https://java.net/jira/browse/JERSEY-2205]. As such, any
custom implementation of the SPI is now required to implement the new method. (Note that the SPI has
been removed in Jersey 2.18 - see the Jersey 2.18 release migration guide section for more details.)

28.18. Migrating from Jersey 2.4 to 2.4.1

• The unsupported ClientProperties.BUFFER_RESPONSE_ENTITY_ON_EXCEPTION
property, with value of jersey.config.client.bufferResponseEntityOnException,
has been removed from the API. Since Jersey 2.4 where JERSEY-2157 [https://java.net/jira/browse/
jersey-2157] issue has been fixed, Jersey client runtime automatically buffers error response entities.
This behavior is automatic and there is no need to set any property.

28.19. Migrating from Jersey 2.3 to 2.4

• All deprecated SSE InboundEvent [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
media/sse/InboundEvent.html] getData(...) methods have been removed from the API. Use the
new readData(...) methods have been introduced instead in Jersey 2.3 for consistency with
other parts of client-side JAX-RS API. Access to the raw SSE event data content is provided via a
InboundEvent's byte[] getRawData() method that has been too introduced in Jersey 2.3.

• All EJB and CDI integration classes have been moved into internal Jersey packages, to clearly state the
integration code should not be used as a public API.

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28.20. Migrating from Jersey 2.0, 2.1 or 2.2 to

2.3
• All existing SSE InboundEvent [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/
media/sse/InboundEvent.html] getData(...) methods have been made deprecated and new
readData(...) methods have been introduced instead for consistency with other parts of client-
side JAX-RS API. The deprecated getData(...) methods will be removed in Jersey 2.4.
A new SSE InboundEvent [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/
InboundEvent.html] byte[] getRawData() method has been introduced to provide access to the
raw SSE event data content.

• Generic Broadcaster [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/

Broadcaster.html] methods for adding/removing BroadcasterListener [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/BroadcasterListener.html] registrations have been
renamed from addBroadcasterListener/removeBroadcasterListener to simply add/
remove.

• Generic Broadcaster [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/

Broadcaster.html] (and transitively, SseBroadcaster [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/media/sse/SseBroadcaster.html]) add/remove methods - that are responsible
for adding/removing BroadcasterListener [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/
jersey/server/BroadcasterListener.html] and ChunkedOutput [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ChunkedOutput.html] (or EventOutput [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/media/sse/EventOutput.html]) registrations - no longer try to
avoid duplicate registrations by comparing hash code of the added/removed instance with the hash codes
of already registered instances. This behavior has been identified as a potential source of hard to discover
bugs and was removed as such. The issue with the former behavior was that hash codes as integer
values provide only a very limited value space that could lead to false-positive duplicate registration
rejections, especially with larger number of simultaneously connected SSE clients (represented by
ChunkedOutput or EventOutput broadcaster registrations). Consequently, users who rely on the
old registration behavior in their application code need to adapt the code to the revised behavior of
Broadcaster add/remove methods.

28.21. Migrating from Jersey 1.x to 2.0

This chapter is a migration guide for people switching from Jersey 1.x. Since many of the Jersey 1.x
features became part of JAX-RS 2.0 standard which caused changes in the package names, we decided it
is a good time to do a more significant incompatible refactoring, which will allow us to introduce some
more interesting new features in the future. As the result, there are many incompatibilities between Jersey
1.x and Jersey 2.0. This chapter summarizes how to migrate the concepts found in Jersey 1.x to Jersey/
JAX-RS 2.0 concepts.

28.21.1. Server API

Jersey 1.x contains number of proprietary server APIs. This section covers migration of application code
relying on those APIs.

28.21.1.1. Injecting custom objects

Jersey 1.x have its own internal dependency injection framework which handles injecting various
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Singleton or PerRequest scopes. Jersey 2.x uses HK2 as dependency injection framework and users are
also able to register custom classes or instances to be injected in various scopes.

Main difference in Jersey 2.x is that you don't need to create special classes or providers for this task;
everything should be achievable using HK2 API. Custom injectables can be registered at ResourceConfig
level by adding new HK2 Module or by dynamically adding binding almost anywhere using injected HK2
Services instance.

Jersey 1.x Singleton:

ResourceConfig resourceConfig = new DefaultResourceConfig();

resourceConfig.getSingletons().add(
new SingletonTypeInjectableProvider<Context, SingletonType>(
SingletonType.class, new SingletonType()) {});

Jersey 1.x PerRequest:

ResourceConfig resourceConfig = new DefaultResourceConfig();

resourceConfig.getSingletons().add(
new PerRequestTypeInjectableProvider<Context, PerRequestType>() {
@Override
public Injectable<PerRequestType> getInjectable(ComponentContext ic, Co
//...
}
});

Jersey 2.0 HK2 Module:

public static class MyBinder extends AbstractBinder {

@Override
protected void configure() {
// request scope binding
bind(MyInjectablePerRequest.class).to(MyInjectablePerRequest.class).in(Requ
// singleton binding
bind(MyInjectableSingleton.class).in(Singleton.class);
// singleton instance binding
bind(new MyInjectableSingleton()).to(MyInjectableSingleton.class);
}

// register module to ResourceConfig (can be done also in constructor)

ResourceConfig rc = new ResourceConfig();
rc.addClasses(/* ... */);
rc.addBinders(new MyBinder());

Jersey 2.0 dynamic binding:

public static class MyApplication extends Application {

@Inject
public MyApplication(ServiceLocator serviceLocator) {
System.out.println("Registering injectables...");

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DynamicConfiguration dc = Injections.getConfiguration(serviceLocator);

// request scope binding

Injections.addBinding(
Injections.newBinder(MyInjectablePerRequest.class).to(MyInjectablePerReques
dc);

// singleton binding
Injections.addBinding(
Injections.newBinder(MyInjectableSingleton.class)
.to(MyInjectableSingleton.class)
.in(Singleton.class),
dc);

// singleton instance binding

Injections.addBinding(
Injections.newBinder(new MyInjectableSingleton())
.to(MyInjectableSingleton.class),
dc);

// request scope binding with specified custom annotation

Injections.addBinding(
Injections.newBinder(MyInjectablePerRequest.class)
.to(MyInjectablePerRequest.class)
.qualifiedBy(new MyAnnotationImpl())
.in(RequestScoped.class),
dc);

// commits changes
dc.commit();
}

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

28.21.1.2. ResourceConfig Reload

In Jersey 1, the reload functionality is based on two interfaces:

1. com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerListener

2. com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerNotifier

Containers, which support the reload functionality implement the ContainerListener interface, so
that once you get access to the actual container instance, you could call it's onReload method and get
the container re-load the config. The second interface helps you to obtain the actual container instance
reference. An example on how things are wired together follows.

Example 28.1. Jersey 1 reloader implementation

1 public class Reloader implements ContainerNotifier {
2 List<ContainerListener> ls;

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3
4 public Reloader() {
5 ls = new ArrayList<ContainerListener>();
6 }
7
8 public void addListener(ContainerListener l) {
9 ls.add(l);
10 }
11
12 public void reload() {
13 for (ContainerListener l : ls) {
14 l.onReload();
15 }
16 }
17 }

Example 28.2. Jersey 1 reloader registration

1 Reloader reloader = new Reloader();
2 resourceConfig.getProperties().put(ResourceConfig.PROPERTY_CONTAINER_NOTIFIER,

In Jersey 2, two interfaces are involved again, but these have been re-designed.

1. org.glassfish.jersey.server.spi.Container

2. org.glassfish.jersey.server.spi.ContainerLifecycleListener

The Container interface introduces two reload methods, which you can call to get the
application re-loaded. One of these methods allows to pass in a new ResourceConfig instance.
You can register your implementation of ContainerLifecycleListener the same way as
any other provider (i.e. either by annotating it by @Provider [https://jersey.java.net/apidocs-javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/javax/ws/rs/ext/Provider.html] annotation or adding it to the Jersey ResourceConfig [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ResourceConfig.html] directly either
using the class (using ResourceConfig.addClasses()) or registering a particular instance using
ResourceConfig.addSingletons() method.

An example on how things work in Jersey 2 follows.

Example 28.3. Jersey 2 reloader implementation

1 public class Reloader implements ContainerLifecycleListener {
2
3 Container container;
4
5 public void reload(ResourceConfig newConfig) {
6 container.reload(newConfig);
7 }
8
9 public void reload() {
10 container.reload();
11 }
12
13 @Override
14 public void onStartup(Container container) {
15 this.container = container;

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16 }
17
18 @Override
19 public void onReload(Container container) {
20 // ignore or do whatever you want after reload has been done
21 }
22
23 @Override
24 public void onShutdown(Container container) {
25 // ignore or do something after the container has been shutdown
26 }
27 }

Example 28.4. Jersey 2 reloader registration

1 Reloader reloader = new Reloader();
2 resourceConfig.addSingletons(reloader);
3

28.21.1.3. MessageBodyReaders and MessageBodyWriters ordering

JAX-RS 2.0 defines new order of MessageBodyWorkers - whole set is sorted
by declaration distance, media type and source (custom providers having higher
priority than default ones provided by Jersey). JAX-RS 1.x ordering can still
be forced by setting parameter MessageProperties.LEGACY_WORKERS_ORDERING
("jersey.config.workers.legacyOrdering") to true in ResourceConfig or
ClientConfig properties.

28.21.2. Migrating Jersey Client API

JAX-RS 2.0 provides functionality that is equivalent to the Jersey 1.x proprietary client API. Here is a
rough mapping between the Jersey 1.x and JAX-RS 2.0 Client API classes:

Table 28.2. Mapping of Jersey 1.x to JAX-RS 2.0 client classes

Notes
Jersey
JAX-
1.x
RS
Class
2.0
Class
For the static factory methods and constructors.
com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client
ClientBuilder
[http://
[https://
jersey.java.net/
nonav/
apidocs-
apidocs/1.17/
javax.jax-
jersey/
rs/2.0.1/
com/
javax/
sun/
ws/
jersey/
rs/
api/
client/
client/
ClientBuilder.html]
Client.html]
For the instance methods.
Client
[https://

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Notes
Jersey
JAX-
1.x
RS
Class
2.0
Class
jersey.java.net/
apidocs-
javax.jax-
rs/2.0.1/
javax/
ws/
rs/
client/
Client.html]
WebTarget
com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource
[http://
[https://
jersey.java.net/
nonav/
apidocs-
apidocs/1.17/
javax.jax-
jersey/
rs/2.0.1/
com/
javax/
sun/
ws/
jersey/
rs/
api/
client/
client/
WebTarget.html]
WebResource.html]
You can access async versions of the async methods by calling
com.sun.jersey.api.client.AsyncWebResource
WebTarget
[http://
[https://
WebTarget.request().async()
jersey.java.net/
nonav/
apidocs-
apidocs/1.17/
javax.jax-
jersey/
rs/2.0.1/
com/
javax/
sun/
ws/
jersey/
rs/
api/
client/
client/
WebTarget.html]
AsyncWebResource.html]

The following sub-sections show code examples.

28.21.2.1. Making a simple client request

Jersey 1.x way:

Client client = Client.create();

WebResource webResource = client.resource(restURL).path("myresource/{param}");
String result = webResource.pathParam("param", "value").get(String.class);

JAX-RS 2.0 way:

Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();

WebTarget target = client.target(restURL).path("myresource/{param}");
String result = target.pathParam("param", "value").get(String.class);

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28.21.2.2. Registering filters

Jersey 1.x way:

Client client = Client.create();

WebResource webResource = client.resource(restURL);
webResource.addFilter(new HTTPBasicAuthFilter(username, password));

JAX-RS 2.0 way:

Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();

WebTarget target = client.target(restURL);
target.register(new HttpBasicAuthFilter(username, password));

28.21.2.3. Setting "Accept" header

Jersey 1.x way:

Client client = Client.create();

WebResource webResource = client.resource(restURL).accept("text/plain");
ClientResponse response = webResource.get(ClientResponse.class);

JAX-RS 2.0 way:

Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();

WebTarget target = client.target(restURL);
Response response = target.request("text/plain").get();

28.21.2.4. Attaching entity to request

Jersey 1.x way:

Client client = Client.create();

WebResource webResource = client.resource(restURL);
ClientResponse response = webResource.post(ClientResponse.class, "payload");

JAX-RS 2.0 way:

Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();

WebTarget target = client.target(restURL);
Response response = target.request().post(Entity.text("payload"));

28.21.2.5. Setting SSLContext and/or HostnameVerifier

Jersey 1.x way:

HTTPSProperties prop = new HTTPSProperties(hostnameVerifier, sslContext);

DefaultClientConfig dcc = new DefaultClientConfig();
dcc.getProperties().put(HTTPSProperties.PROPERTY_HTTPS_PROPERTIES, prop);
Client client = Client.create(dcc);

Jersey 2.0 way:

Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()

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.sslContext(sslContext)
.hostnameVerifier(hostnameVerifier)
.build();

28.21.3. JSON support changes

JSON Support has undergone certain changes in Jersey 2.x. The most visible difference for the developer
is in the initialization and configuration.

In Jersey 1.x, the JAXB/JSON Support was implemented as a set of MessageBodyReaders and
MessageWriters in the jersey-json module. Internally, there were several implementations
of JSON to Object mapping ranging from Jersey's own custom solution to third party providers,
such as Jackson or Jettison. The configuration of the JSON support was centralized in the
JSONConfiguration and JSONJAXBContext classes.

28.21.3.1. Initialization
There are three main JSON-mapping handling approaches, which are preserved in Jersey 2: JAXB-based,
POJO mapping and Low-level parsing The following table shows how to enable each of them in both
Jersey 2 compared to Jersey 1:

Table 28.3. JSON approaches and usage in Jersey 1 vs Jersey 2

Approach Jersey 1 Jersey 2
POJO register use Jackson provider:
POJOMappingFeature, use (add jersey-media-json-
ObjectMapper [http:// jackson dependency and
jackson.codehaus.org/1.9.9/ register the JacksonFeature),
javadoc/org/codehaus/jackson/ configure with custom
map/ObjectMapper.html] for ObjectMapper [http://
configuration fasterxml.github.io/jackson-
databind/javadoc/2.3.0/com/
fasterxml/jackson/databind/
ObjectMapper.html] instance.
JAXB Default; use use MOXy (add the jersey-
JSONConfiguration/ media-moxy dependency; the
JSONJAXBContext for feature will be registered
configuration automatically), configure using
MoxyJsonConfig
Low-level Direct usage of JSONObject use JSON-P (standard) or Jettison
and/or JSONArray classes (non-standard) APIs (add the
relevant dependency)

Example 28.5. Initializing JAXB-based support with MOXy

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-media-moxy</artifactId>
<version>2.25.1</version>
</dependency>

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Note
For JAXB-based support, MOXy is the default way in Jersey 2. However, other providers
(Jackson, Jettison) can be used as well. The relevant feature has to be registered (and
dependency added) and custom implementation of ContextResolver has to be provided. See
the code snippets in the related chapter.

For more on particular Feature registration, see also: Jackson registration, Jettison registration,
MOXy registration, JSON-P registration.

It is important to point out, that the Feature registration has to be done separately for client
and server.

Note
With Jersey 2.9, Jackson has been updated to version 2.3.2. The feature is still configured via
mentioned ObjectMapper class, but the package has changed.

• For jackson 1.x, use org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper

• For jackson 2.x, use com.fasterxml.jackson.core.ObjectMapper

28.21.3.2. JSON Notation

Jersey 1 was selecting the provider automatically based on the desired JSON Notation. This concept was
replaced in Jersey 2 by direct choice of provider (as shown above). To provide some guide how to achieve
the same results as in the previous Jersey version, see the following list:

• MAPPED not supported

• NATURAL default MOXy output

• JETTISON_MAPPED supported by Jettison

• BADGERFISH supported by Jettison

28.21.3.3. Configuration
As mentioned, the centralized configuration of Jersey 1's JSONConfiguration does not have a direct
equivalent in Jersey 2. Each provider has it's own way to be configured. Detailed description of each
method and property is out of scope of this migration guide and can be found in the documentation and
APIs of the relevant providers and/or the relevant Jersey module API. Bellow are several basic examples
how to configure certain options when using MOXy with Jersey's MoxyJsonConfig class.

• Formated output

Jersey 1: JSONConfiguration.createJSONConfigurationWithFormatted()

Jersey 2/MOXy: MoxyJsonConfig.setFormattedOutput()

• Namespaces mapping

Jersey 1: JSONConfiguration.natural().xml2JsonNs()

Jersey 2/MOXy: MoxyJsonConfig.setNamespacePrefixMapper()

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• Namespace separator

Jersey 1: JSONConfiguration.natural().nsSeparator()

Jersey 2/MOXy: MoxyJsonConfig.setNamespaceSeparator()

Properties can be also passed directly to Marshaller and/or Unmarshaller

using: MoxyJsonConfig's property(), marshallerProperty() and
unmarshallerProperty() methods.

More on the JSON Support topic can be found in Section 9.1, “JSON”.

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A.1. Common (client/server) configuration
properties
List of common configuration properties that can be found in CommonProperties [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/CommonProperties.html] class. All of these properties can be
overridden by their server/client counterparts.

Table A.1. List of common configuration properties

Constant Value Description
CommonProperties.FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE Disables feature auto discovery
jersey.config.disableAutoDiscovery
[https://jersey.java.net/ globally on client/server. Default
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ value is false.
glassfish/jersey/
CommonProperties.html#FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE]
CommonProperties.JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE Disables configuration of Json
jersey.config.disableJsonProcessing
[https://jersey.java.net/ Processing (JSR-353) feature.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ Default value is false.
glassfish/jersey/
CommonProperties.html#JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE]
CommonProperties.METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE Disables META-INF/services
jersey.config.disableMetainfServicesLookup
[https://jersey.java.net/ lookup globally on client/server.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ Default value is false.
glassfish/jersey/
CommonProperties.html#METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE]
CommonProperties.MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE Disables configuration of MOXy
jersey.config.disableMoxyJson
[https://jersey.java.net/ Json feature. Default value is
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ false.
glassfish/jersey/
CommonProperties.html#MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE]
CommonProperties.OUTBOUND_CONTENT_LENGTH_BUFFER An integer value that defines the
jersey.config.contentLength.buffer
[https://jersey.java.net/ buffer size used to buffer the
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ outbound message entity in order
glassfish/jersey/ to determine its size and set
CommonProperties.html#OUTBOUND_CONTENT_LENGTH_BUFFER]
the value of HTTP Content-
Length header. Default value is
8192.
LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_LOGGER_NAME Logger name of the logging filter.
jersey.config.logging.logger.name
[https://jersey.java.net/ See logging chapter for more
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ information. The default value is
glassfish/jersey/logging/ org.glassfish.jersey.logging.Logging
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_LOGGER_NAME]
LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_LOGGER_LEVEL Level of logging filter's logger
jersey.config.logging.logger.level
[https://jersey.java.net/ at which the messages will be
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ logged. See logging chapter for
more information.

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Constant Value Description

glassfish/jersey/logging/
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_LOGGER_LEVEL]
LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_VERBOSITY Verbosity of logging filter
jersey.config.logging.verbosity
[https://jersey.java.net/ describes how verbose the
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ logging filter will be.
glassfish/jersey/logging/ There are 3 possible values
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_VERBOSITY] LoggingFeature.Verbosity.HEADERS_ONL
LoggingFeature.Verbosity.PAYLOAD_TEX
or
LoggingFeature.Verbosity.PAYLOAD_ANY
See logging chapter for more
information.
LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_MAX_ENTITY_SIZE The maximum number of bytes of
jersey.config.logging.entity.maxSize
[https://jersey.java.net/ the entity which will be logged.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ See logging chapter for more
glassfish/jersey/logging/ information.
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_MAX_ENTITY_SIZE]

A.2. Server configuration properties

List of server configuration properties that can be found in ServerProperties [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/ServerProperties.html] class.

Table A.2. List of server configuration properties

Constant Value Description
ServerProperties.APPLICATION_NAME Defines the application name. The
jersey.config.server.application.name
[https://jersey.java.net/ name is an arbitrary user defined
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ name which is used to distinguish
glassfish/jersey/server/ between Jersey applications in the
ServerProperties.html#APPLICATION_NAME] case that more applications are
deployed on the same runtime
(container). The name can be
used for example for purposes of
monitoring by JMX when name
identifies to which application
deployed MBeans belong to. The
name should be unique in the
runtime. The property does not
have a default value.
ServerProperties.BV_FEATURE_DISABLE Disables Bean Validation support.
jersey.config.beanValidation.disable.server
[https://jersey.java.net/ Default value is false.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#BV_FEATURE_DISABLE]
BLE_VALIDATE_ON_EXECUTABLE_OVERRIDE_CHECK
ServerProperties Disables .disable.validateOnExecutableC
jersey.config.beanValidation
[https://jersey.java.net/ @ValidateOnExecution
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ check. Default value is false.
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#BV_DISABLE_VALIDATE_ON_EXECUTABLE_OVERRIDE_CHECK]

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Constant Value Description

ServerProperties.BV_SEND_ERROR_IN_RESPONSE Enables .enableOutputValidationErrorEn
jersey.config.beanValidation sending validation error
[https://jersey.java.net/ information to the client. Default
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ value is false.
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#BV_SEND_ERROR_IN_RESPONSE]
ServerProperties.FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE Disables feature auto discovery on
jersey.config.server.disableAutoDiscovery
[https://jersey.java.net/ server. Default value is false.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE]
ServerProperties.HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE Defines configuration
jersey.config.server.httpMethodOverride of
[https://jersey.java.net/ HTTP method overriding.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ This property is used
glassfish/jersey/server/ by HttpMethodOverrideFilter
ServerProperties.html#HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE] [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/filter/
HttpMethodOverrideFilter.html]
to determine where it should look
for method override information
(e.g. request header or query
parameters).
ServerProperties.JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE Disables configuration of Json
jersey.config.server.disableJsonProcessing
[https://jersey.java.net/ Processing (JSR-353) feature.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ Default value is false.
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE]
ServerProperties.LANGUAGE_MAPPINGS Defines mapping
jersey.config.server.languageMappings of URI
[https://jersey.java.net/ extensions to languages.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ The property is used
glassfish/jersey/server/ by UriConnegFilter [https://
ServerProperties.html#LANGUAGE_MAPPINGS] jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
filter/UriConnegFilter.html].
ServerProperties.MEDIA_TYPE_MAPPINGS Defines mapping
jersey.config.server.mediaTypeMappings of URI
[https://jersey.java.net/ extensions to media types.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ The property is used
glassfish/jersey/server/ by UriConnegFilter [https://
ServerProperties.html#MEDIA_TYPE_MAPPINGS] jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
filter/UriConnegFilter.html].
ServerProperties.METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE Disables META-INF/services
jersey.config.server.disableMetainfServicesLookup
[https://jersey.java.net/ lookup on server. Default value is
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ false.
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE]
ServerProperties.MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE Disables configuration of MOXy
jersey.config.server.disableMoxyJson
[https://jersey.java.net/ Json feature. Default value is
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ false.

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Constant Value Description

glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE]
ServerProperties.MONITORING_ENABLED If true, then application
jersey.config.server .monitoring.statistics.enabled
[https://jersey.java.net/ monitoring will be enabled. This
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ will enable the possibility of
glassfish/jersey/server/ injecting ApplicationInfo [https://
ServerProperties.html#MONITORING_ENABLED] jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
(Jersey 2.12 or later) jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
monitoring/ApplicationInfo.html]
into resource and providers.
Default value is false.
ServerProperties.MONITORING_STATISTICS_ENABLED If true, the calculation of
jersey.config.server .monitoring.enabled
[https://jersey.java.net/ monitoring statistics will be
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ enabled. This will enable
glassfish/jersey/server/ the possibility of injecting
ServerProperties.html#MONITORING_STATISTICS_ENABLED] MonitoringStatistics [https://
jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
monitoring/
MonitoringStatistics.html] into
resource and providers and also the
registered listeners implementing
MonitoringStatisticsListener
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
monitoring/
MonitoringStatisticsListener.html]
will be called when statistics
are available for processing.
Monitoring statistics extends basic
monitoring feature. Therefore
when enabled, the monitoring gets
automatically enabled too (the
same result as setting the property
ServerProperties.MONITORING_ENABLED
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#MONITORING_ENABLED]
to true). Note that enabling
statistics may have a negative
performance impact and therefore
should be enabled only when
needed. Default value is false.
ServerProperties.MONITORING_STATISTICS_MBEANS_ENABLED
If true then Jersey will
jersey.config.server .monitoring.statistics.mbeans.enabled
[https://jersey.java.net/ expose MBeans for the collected
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ monitoring statistics. Exposed
glassfish/jersey/server/ JMX MBeans are based
ServerProperties.html#MONITORING_STATISTICS_MBEANS_ENABLED]
on MonitoringStatistics [https://
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Constant Value Description

jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
monitoring/
MonitoringStatistics.html] data
and therefore when enabled, the
calculation of monitoring statistics
gets automatically enabled too (the
same result as setting the property
ServerProperties.MONITORING_STATISTICS_ENA
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#MONITORING_STATISTICS
to true). Note that enabling
MBeans for monitoring statistics
may have a negative performance
impact and therefore should be
enabled only when needed. Default
value is false.
ServerProperties.MONITORING_STATISTICS_REFRESH_INTERVAL
Interval (in ms}) indicating how
jersey.config.server .monitoring.statistics.refresh.interva
[https://jersey.java.net/ often will be monitoring statistics
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ refreshed (onStatistics
glassfish/jersey/server/ method called). Default value is
ServerProperties.html#MONITORING_STATISTICS_REFRESH_INTERVAL]
500.
(Jersey 2.10 or later)
ServerProperties.OUTBOUND_CONTENT_LENGTH_BUFFER An integer value that defines the
jersey.config.contentLength.server.buffer
[https://jersey.java.net/ buffer size used to buffer the
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ outbound message entity in order
glassfish/jersey/server/ to determine its size and set
ServerProperties.html#OUTBOUND_CONTENT_LENGTH_BUFFER]
the value of HTTP Content-
(Jersey 2.2 or later) Length header. Default value is
8192.
ServerProperties.PROVIDER_CLASSNAMES Defines one or more class
jersey.config.server.provider.classnames
[https://jersey.java.net/ names that implement application-
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ specific resources and providers. If
glassfish/jersey/server/ the property is set, the specified
ServerProperties.html#PROVIDER_CLASSNAMES] classes will be instantiated and
registered as either application
JAX-RS root resources or
providers.
ServerProperties.PROVIDER_CLASSPATH Defines class-path that contains
jersey.config.server.provider.classpath
[https://jersey.java.net/ application-specific resources and
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ providers. If the property is set, the
glassfish/jersey/server/ specified packages will be scanned
ServerProperties.html#PROVIDER_CLASSPATH] for JAX-RS root resources and
providers.
ServerProperties.PROVIDER_PACKAGES Defines one or more packages
jersey.config.server.provider.packages
[https://jersey.java.net/ that contain application-specific
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ resources and providers. If the
glassfish/jersey/server/ property is set, the specified
ServerProperties.html#PROVIDER_PACKAGES]

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Constant Value Description

packages will be scanned for JAX-
RS root resources and providers.
ServerProperties.PROVIDER_SCANNING_RECURSIVE Sets the recursion strategy for
jersey.config.server .provider.scanning.recursive
[https://jersey.java.net/ package scanning. Default value is
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ true.
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#PROVIDER_SCANNING_RECURSIVE]
ServerProperties.REDUCE_CONTEXT_PATH_SLASHES_ENABLEDIgnores multiple slashes between
jersey.config.server.reduceContextPathSlashes.enabled
[https://jersey.java.net/ a port and a context path and will
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ resolve it as URI with only one
glassfish/jersey/server/ slash. Default value is false.
ServerProperties.html#REDUCE_CONTEXT_PATH_SLASHES_ENABLED]
ServerProperties.RESOURCE_VALIDATION_DISABLE Disables Resource validation.
jersey.config.server .resource.validation.disable
[https://jersey.java.net/ Default value is false.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#RESOURCE_VALIDATION_DISABLE]
ServerProperties.RESOURCE_VALIDATION_IGNORE_ERRORS Determines whether validation
jersey.config.server .resource.validation.ignoreErrors
[https://jersey.java.net/ of application resource models
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ should fail even in case of a fatal
glassfish/jersey/server/ validation errors. Default value is
ServerProperties.html#RESOURCE_VALIDATION_IGNORE_ERRORS]
false.
ServerProperties.WADL_FEATURE_DISABLE Disables WADL generation.
jersey.config.server.wadl.disableWadl
[https://jersey.java.net/ Default value is false.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#WADL_FEATURE_DISABLE]
ServerProperties.WADL_GENERATOR_CONFIG Defines the wadl generator
jersey.config.server.wadl.generatorConfig
[https://jersey.java.net/ configuration that provides
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ a WadlGenerator [https://
glassfish/jersey/server/ jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
ServerProperties.html#WADL_GENERATOR_CONFIG] jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/
wadl/WadlGenerator.html].
ServerProperties.RESPONSE_SET_STATUS_OVER_SEND_ERRORWhenever response status is
jersey.config.server.response.setStatusOverSendError
[https://jersey.java.net/ 4xx or 5xx it is possible to
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ choose between sendError or
glassfish/jersey/server/ setStatus on container specific
ServerProperties.html#RESPONSE_SET_STATUS_OVER_SEND_ERROR]
Response implementation.
E.g. on servlet container
Jersey can call
HttpServletResponse.setStatus(...)
or
HttpServletResponse.sendError(...).
Calling sendError(...)
method usually resets entity,
response headers and provide
error page for specified status
code (e.g. servlet error-
page configuration). However

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Constant Value Description

if you want to post-
process response (e.g. by
servlet filter) the only
way to do it is
calling setStatus(...) on
container Response object.
If property value is
true the method
Response.setStatus(...)
is used over default
Response.sendError(...).
Type of the property value is
boolean. The default value is
false.
ServerProperties.TRACING Enables/disables tracing support.
jersey.config.server.tracing.type
[https://jersey.java.net/ Possible values are OFF (default),
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ ON_DEMAND and ALL. See
glassfish/jersey/server/ Section 22.2.1, “Configuration
ServerProperties.html#TRACING] options” for more detail.
ServerProperties.TRACING_THRESHOLD Sets the amount of detail
jersey.config.server.tracing.threshold
[https://jersey.java.net/ provided by tracing. Possible
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ values are SUMMARY, TRACE and
glassfish/jersey/server/ VERBOSE. See Section 22.2.1,
ServerProperties.html#TRACING_THRESHOLD] “Configuration options” to learn
more about the levels.
ServerProperties.PROCESSING_RESPONSE_ERRORS_ENABLED If property value is true then
jersey.config.server.exception.processResponseErrors
[https://jersey.java.net/ the errors raised during response
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ processing are tried to be handled
glassfish/jersey/server/ using available response error
ServerProperties.html#PROCESSING_RESPONSE_ERRORS_ENABLED]
mappers.
ServerProperties.SUBRESOURCE_LOCATOR_CACHE_SIZE An integer value that defines the
jersey.config.server.subresource.cache.size
[https://jersey.java.net/ size of cache for sub-resource
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ locator models. The cache is used
glassfish/jersey/server/ to provide better performance for
ServerProperties.html#SUBRESOURCE_LOCATOR_CACHE_SIZE]
application that uses JAX-RS sub-
resource locators.
ServerProperties.SUBRESOURCE_LOCATOR_CACHE_SIZE An integer value that defines the
jersey.config.server.subresource.cache.size
[https://jersey.java.net/ maximum age (in seconds) for
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ cached for sub-resource locator
glassfish/jersey/server/ models. The age of an cache entry
ServerProperties.html#SUBRESOURCE_LOCATOR_CACHE_SIZE]
is defined as the time since the last
access (read) to the entry in the
cache. Entry aging is not enabled
by default.
ServerProperties.SUBRESOURCE_LOCATOR_CACHE_JERSEY_RESOURCE_ENABLED
If true then Jersey will cache
jersey.config.server.subresource.cache.jersey.resource.enab
[https://jersey.java.net/ Jersey resources in addition
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ to caching sub-resource locator
glassfish/jersey/server/ classes and instances (which are
ServerProperties.html#SUBRESOURCE_LOCATOR_CACHE_JERSEY_RESOURCE_ENABLED]
cached by default). To make sure
the caching is effective in this case

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Constant Value Description

you need to return same Jersey
Resource instances for same input
parameters from resource method.
This means that generating new
Jersey Resource instances for same
input parameters would not have
any performance effect and it
would only fill-up the cache.
ServerProperties.LOCATION_HEADER_RELATIVE_URI_RESOLUTION_DISABLED
If true, Jersey will not resolve
jersey.config.server.headers.location.relative.resolution.d
[https://jersey.java.net/ relative URIs in the Location
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ http header.
glassfish/jersey/server/
ServerProperties.html#LOCATION_HEADER_RELATIVE_URI_RESOLUTION_DISABLED]
LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_LOGGER_NAME_SERVER Logger name of the logging filter.
jersey.config.server.logging.logger.name
[https://jersey.java.net/ See logging chapter for more
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ information. The default value is
glassfish/jersey/logging/ org.glassfish.jersey.logging.Logging
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_LOGGER_NAME_SERVER]
LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_LOGGER_LEVEL_SERVER Level of logging filter's logger
jersey.config.server.logging.logger.level
[https://jersey.java.net/ at which the messages will be
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ logged. See logging chapter for
glassfish/jersey/logging/ more information.
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_LOGGER_LEVEL_SERVER]
LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_VERBOSITY_SERVER Verbosity of logging filter
jersey.config.server.logging.verbosity
[https://jersey.java.net/ describes how verbose the
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ logging filter will be.
glassfish/jersey/logging/ There are 3 possible values
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_VERBOSITY_SERVER]
LoggingFeature.Verbosity.HEADERS_ONL
LoggingFeature.Verbosity.PAYLOAD_TEX
or
LoggingFeature.Verbosity.PAYLOAD_ANY
See logging chapter for more
information.
LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_MAX_ENTITY_SIZE_SERVER
The maximum number of bytes of
jersey.config.server.logging.entity.maxSize
[https://jersey.java.net/ the entity which will be logged.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ See logging chapter for more
glassfish/jersey/logging/ information.
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_MAX_ENTITY_SIZE_SERVER]

A.3. Servlet configuration properties

List of servlet configuration properties that can be found in ServletProperties [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/servlet/ServletProperties.html] class.

Table A.3. List of servlet configuration properties

Constant Value Description
ServletProperties.FILTER_CONTEXT_PATH If set, indicates the URL pattern
jersey.config.servlet.filter.contextPath
[https://jersey.java.net/ of the Jersey servlet filter context
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ path.

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Constant Value Description

glassfish/jersey/servlet/
ServletProperties.html#FILTER_CONTEXT_PATH]
ServletProperties.FILTER_FORWARD_ON_404 If set to true and a 404
jersey.config.servlet.filter.forwardOn404
[https://jersey.java.net/ response with no entity body is
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ returned from either the runtime
glassfish/jersey/servlet/ or the application then the runtime
ServletProperties.html#FILTER_FORWARD_ON_404] forwards the request to the
next filter in the filter chain.
This enables another filter or
the underlying servlet engine to
process the request. Before the
request is forwarded the response
status is set to 200.
ServletProperties.FILTER_STATIC_CONTENT_REGEX If set the regular expression is used
jersey.config.servlet.filter.staticContentRegex
[https://jersey.java.net/ to match an incoming servlet path
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ URI to some web page content
glassfish/jersey/servlet/ such as static resources or JSPs
ServletProperties.html#FILTER_STATIC_CONTENT_REGEX] to be handled by the underlying
servlet engine.
ServletProperties.JAXRS_APPLICATION_CLASS
javax.ws.rs.ApplicationApplication configuration
[https://jersey.java.net/ initialization property whose value
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ is a fully qualified class name of
glassfish/jersey/servlet/ a class that implements JAX-RS
ServletProperties.html#JAXRS_APPLICATION_CLASS] Application.
ServletProperties.PROVIDER_WEB_APP Indicates that Jersey should scan
jersey.config.servlet.provider.webapp
[https://jersey.java.net/ the whole web app for application-
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ specific resources and providers.
glassfish/jersey/servlet/
ServletProperties.html#PROVIDER_WEB_APP]
ServletProperties.QUERY_PARAMS_AS_FORM_PARAMS_DISABLED
If true then query parameters
jersey.config.servlet.form.queryParams.disabled
[https://jersey.java.net/ will not be treated as form
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ parameters (e.g. injectable using
glassfish/jersey/servlet/ @FormParam) in case a Form
ServletProperties.html#QUERY_PARAMS_AS_FORM_PARAMS_DISABLED]
request is processed by server.
ServletProperties.SERVICE_LOCATOR Identifies the object that will be
jersey.config.servlet.context.serviceLocator
[https://jersey.java.net/ used as a parent ServiceLocator in
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ the Jersey WebComponent.
glassfish/jersey/servlet/
ServletProperties.html#SERVICE_LOCATOR]

A.4. Client configuration properties

List of client configuration properties that can be found in ClientProperties [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/ClientProperties.html] class.

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Table A.4. List of client configuration properties

Constant Value Description

ClientProperties.ASYNC_THREADPOOL_SIZE Asynchronous thread pool size.
jersey.config.client.async.threadPoolSize
[https://jersey.java.net/ Default value is not set. Supported
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ with GrizzlyConnectorProvider
glassfish/jersey/client/ [https://jersey.java.net/
ClientProperties.html#ASYNC_THREADPOOL_SIZE] apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/grizzly/connector/
GrizzlyConnectorProvider.html]
only..
ClientProperties.CHUNKED_ENCODING_SIZE Chunked encoding size. Default
jersey.config.client.chunkedEncodingSize
[https://jersey.java.net/ value is not set.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#CHUNKED_ENCODING_SIZE]
ClientProperties.CONNECT_TIMEOUT Read timeout
jersey.config.client.connectTimeout interval, in
[https://jersey.java.net/ milliseconds. Default value is 0
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ (infinity).
glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#CONNECT_TIMEOUT]
ClientProperties.FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE Disables feature auto discovery on
jersey.config.client.disableAutoDiscovery
[https://jersey.java.net/ client. Default value is false.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#FEATURE_AUTO_DISCOVERY_DISABLE]
ClientProperties.FOLLOW_REDIRECTS Declares that the client will
jersey.config.client.followRedirects
[https://jersey.java.net/ automatically redirect to the URI
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ declared in 3xx responses. Default
glassfish/jersey/client/ value is true.
ClientProperties.html#FOLLOW_REDIRECTS]
ClientProperties.JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE Disables configuration of Json
jersey.config.client.disableJsonProcessing
[https://jersey.java.net/ Processing (JSR-353) feature.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ Default value is false.
glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#JSON_PROCESSING_FEATURE_DISABLE]
ClientProperties.METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE Disables META-INF/services
jersey.config.disableMetainfServicesLookup.client
[https://jersey.java.net/ lookup on client. Default value is
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ false.
glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#METAINF_SERVICES_LOOKUP_DISABLE]
ClientProperties.MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE Disables configuration of MOXy
jersey.config.client.disableMoxyJson
[https://jersey.java.net/ Json feature. Default value is
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ false.
glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#MOXY_JSON_FEATURE_DISABLE]
ClientProperties.OUTBOUND_CONTENT_LENGTH_BUFFER An integer value that defines the
jersey.config.client.contentLength.buffer
[https://jersey.java.net/ buffer size used to buffer the
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ outbound message entity in order
glassfish/jersey/client/ to determine its size and set

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Constant Value Description

ClientProperties.html#OUTBOUND_CONTENT_LENGTH_BUFFER]
the value of HTTP Content-
(Jersey 2.2 or later) Length header. Default value is
8192.
ClientProperties.PROXY_URI jersey.config.client.proxy.uri
URI of a HTTP proxy
[https://jersey.java.net/ the client connector should
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ use. Default value is
glassfish/jersey/client/ not set. Currently supported
ClientProperties.html#PROXY_URI] with ApacheConnectorProvider
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/apache/
connector/
ApacheConnectorProvider.html]
and JettyConnectorProvider
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/jetty/connector/
JettyConnectorProvider.html]
only.
ClientProperties.PROXY_USERNAME User name
jersey.config.client.proxy.username which will
[https://jersey.java.net/ be used for HTTP proxy
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ authentication. Default value is
glassfish/jersey/client/ not set. Currently supported
ClientProperties.html#PROXY_USERNAME] with ApacheConnectorProvider
(Jersey 2.5 or later) [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/apache/
connector/
ApacheConnectorProvider.html]
and JettyConnectorProvider
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/jetty/connector/
JettyConnectorProvider.html]
only.
ClientProperties.PROXY_PASSWORD Password
jersey.config.client.proxy.password which will be
[https://jersey.java.net/ used for HTTP proxy
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ authentication. Default value is
glassfish/jersey/client/ not set. Currently supported
ClientProperties.html#PROXY_PASSWORD] with ApacheConnectorProvider
(Jersey 2.5 or later) [https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/apache/
connector/
ApacheConnectorProvider.html]
and JettyConnectorProvider
[https://jersey.java.net/
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/
glassfish/jersey/jetty/connector/
JettyConnectorProvider.html]
only.

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Constant Value Description

ClientProperties.READ_TIMEOUT Read
jersey.config.client.readTimeout timeout interval, in
[https://jersey.java.net/ milliseconds. Default value is 0
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ (infinity).
glassfish/jersey/client/
ClientProperties.html#READ_TIMEOUT]
(Jersey 2.5 or later)
ClientProperties.REQUEST_ENTITY_PROCESSING Defines whether the request entity
jersey.config.client.request.entity.processing
[https://jersey.java.net/ should be serialized using internal
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ buffer to evaluate content length
glassfish/jersey/client/ or chunk encoding should be used.
ClientProperties.html#REQUEST_ENTITY_PROCESSING] Possible values are BUFFERED
(Jersey 2.5 or later) or CHUNKED. Default value is
BUFFERED.
ClientProperties.SUPPRESS_HTTP_COMPLIANCE_VALIDATION If true, the strict validation of
jersey.config.client.suppressHttpComplianceValidation
[https://jersey.java.net/ HTTP specification compliance
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ for client-side requests will be
glassfish/jersey/client/ suppressed. When compliance
ClientProperties.html#SUPPRESS_HTTP_COMPLIANCE_VALIDATION]
checks are suppressed, any
(Jersey 2.2 or later) violations will be merely logged
as warnings, rather than causing
exceptions being raised in Jersey
runtime. Default value is false.
ClientProperties.USE_ENCODINGjersey.config.client.useEncoding
Indicates the value of
[https://jersey.java.net/ Content-Encoding property
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ the EncodingFilter [https://
glassfish/jersey/client/ jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.25.1/
ClientProperties.html#USE_ENCODING] jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/client/
filter/EncodingFilter.html] should
be adding. Default value is not set.
LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_LOGGER_NAME_CLIENT Logger name of the logging filter.
jersey.config.client.logging.logger.name
[https://jersey.java.net/ See logging chapter for more
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ information. The default value is
glassfish/jersey/logging/ org.glassfish.jersey.logging.Logging
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_LOGGER_NAME_CLIENT]
LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_LOGGER_LEVEL_CLIENT Level of logging filter's logger
jersey.config.client.logging.logger.level
[https://jersey.java.net/ at which the messages will be
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ logged. See logging chapter for
glassfish/jersey/logging/ more information.
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_LOGGER_LEVEL_CLIENT]
LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_VERBOSITY_CLIENT Verbosity of logging filter
jersey.config.client.logging.verbosity
[https://jersey.java.net/ describes how verbose the
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ logging filter will be.
glassfish/jersey/logging/ There are 3 possible values
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_VERBOSITY_CLIENT]
LoggingFeature.Verbosity.HEADERS_ONL
LoggingFeature.Verbosity.PAYLOAD_TEX
or
LoggingFeature.Verbosity.PAYLOAD_ANY
See logging chapter for more
information.

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Constant Value Description

LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_MAX_ENTITY_SIZE_CLIENT
The maximum number of bytes of
jersey.config.client.logging.entity.maxSize
[https://jersey.java.net/ the entity which will be logged.
apidocs/2.25.1/jersey/org/ See logging chapter for more
glassfish/jersey/logging/ information.
LoggingFeature.html#LOGGING_FEATURE_MAX_ENTITY_SIZE_CLIENT]

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