how to produce html output in REST service

[Brad <cf...@javawork.co.uk>]

Hi,

what's the recommended way of getting CXF to output HTML in a REST
service? From looking at the available providers I'm thinking that one
solution would be to have my  method return a Response with the
enitity set to an String and the media type set to text/html.

Is there a better way of doing it?

Thanks,
Brad.

Re: how to produce html output in REST service

[Sergey Beryozkin <se...@iona.com>]

Hi Brad

If you're using Atom then may be the best way would be to update the existing Atom provider to also 
ProduceMime("application/xhtml+xml") and then if the mediatype in writeTo is the same then use one of the Abdera utility classes to 
transfrom the feed  into xhtml, I don't remeber the name of that class offhand, but it should a one-line call.

Perhaps alternatively is to have a dedicated XHTML provider and have a response entity returned in the XML format,
so that this dedicated can transform the entity using xslt or some other technoques...

Cheers, Sergey



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad" <cf...@javawork.co.uk>
To: <us...@cxf.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:24 AM
Subject: how to produce html output in REST service


> Hi,
>
> what's the recommended way of getting CXF to output HTML in a REST
> service? From looking at the available providers I'm thinking that one
> solution would be to have my  method return a Response with the
> enitity set to an String and the media type set to text/html.
>
> Is there a better way of doing it?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad. 

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