Niels Boldt <nielsbo...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> What is the best way to create a rest service in lift that support both xml
> and json.
>
> Are there any tools to use besides lift-json. The end result of my service
> call will be a pojo object that is grabbed from a database and should be
> transformed to the appropriate output.
>
> I hoped to do that in a generic way, whether it is xml, json or something
> third
Not sure what your main problem (REST api part or obj->response) is but:
The API part goes something like this:
LiftRules.dispatch.append {
case Req("api" :: "thing" :: Nil, "json", GetRequest) => // function that
returns a Box[LiftResponse]
}
so you can create different functions based on the request suffix (ie
json/xml) and return appropriate responses.
The Lift ORM, Mapper, recently got an "asJSON" method to return contents of
an object as JSON (it uses lift-json).
I'm not aware of any Scala/Lift generic XML serialization stuff, but you
can use any Java lib for this. For one-off XML structures, it's very
simple to create the XML inline in Scala....
/Jeppe
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