yet another Jersey rest tutorial.
My goals were to get simple HTTP GETs to return an XML instance created by JAXB.
As such Customer.java is the JAXB object that will create a simple XML document with root element customer, child element name which has attribute pin as an integer.
XMLService.java exposes "/customer" which should return a simple string, my thought during troublshooting was HTTP GET /customer and at least return a simple String. That doesn't work. We also expose "/customer/{pin}" if HTTP GET /customer/1234 we should receieve XML document of
<customer pin="1234"><name>mykong</name></customer>
This doesn't work either. I did enable trace on the Jersey servlet and I get these trace headers back
X-Jersey-Tracing-000: START [ ---- / ---- ms | ---- %] baseUri=[http://localhost:8888/mavenproject1/rest/] requestUri=[http://localhost:8888/mavenproject1/rest/customer/1234] method=[GET] authScheme=[n/a] accept=[text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8] accept-encoding=[gzip, deflate] accept-charset=n/a accept-language=[en-US,en;q=0.5] content-type=n/a content-length=n/a
X-Jersey-Tracing-001: PRE-MATCH [ 0.02 / 0.58 ms | 0.54 %] PreMatchRequest summary: 0 filters
X-Jersey-Tracing-002: MATCH [ ---- / 0.66 ms | ---- %] Matching path [/customer/1234]
X-Jersey-Tracing-003: MATCH [ 0.07 / 0.71 ms | 2.12 %] RequestMatching summary
X-Jersey-Tracing-004: RESP-FILTER [ 2.47 / 3.42 ms | 70.71 %] Response summary: 0 filters
X-Jersey-Tracing-005: FINISHED [ ---- / 3.49 ms | ---- %] Response status: 404/CLIENT_ERROR|Not Found
It appears that Jersey is not finding a suitable servlet to handle my request.
mavenproject1 is my WAR and exploded directory in tomcat8 webapps folder, "/rest" is my url-mapping value in the web.xml, rest of URI is matching decorators in XMLService.java.