On today’s demo im trying to use RESTEasy to handle multiple REST requests. According to Wikipedia, REST (Representational state transfer) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. While RESTEasy is a JBoss project that provides various frameworks to help you build RESTful Web Services and RESTful Java applications. It is a fully certified and portable implementation of the JAX-RS specification. JAX-RS is a new JCP specification that provides a Java API for RESTful Web Services over the HTTP protocol.

On this project, im trying to create 2 different services. 1 service to get all objects, while another one for fetching a single objects. I create 2 different responses type for each service, JSON and XML. Okay, so lets try with 2 simple javabeans.

package com.edw.bean;

import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElementWrapper;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

@XmlRootElement
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class Student {

    private String name;
    private String address;
    private int age;

    @XmlElement(name="book")
    @XmlElementWrapper(name = "books")
    private List<Book> books;

    public Student() {
    }

    public Student(String name, String address, int age, List<Book> books) {
        this.name = name;
        this.address = address;
        this.age = age;
        this.books = books;
    }

	// other setter getter

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Student{" + "name=" + name + ", address=" + address + ", age=" + age + ", books=" + books + '}';
    }
}

package com.edw.bean;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

@XmlRootElement
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class Book {

    private String title;
    private double price;

    public Book() {
    }

    public Book(String title, double price) {
        this.title = title;
        this.price = price;
    }

	// other setter getter

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Book{" + "title=" + title + ", price=" + price + '}';
    }
}

Now, you need to create a java class to handle all REST services,

package com.edw.rest;

import com.edw.bean.Book;
import com.edw.bean.Student;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;

@Path("/service/student")
public class StudentRest {

    @GET
    @Path("/json")
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    // path would be http://localhost:8080/YourProject/service/student/json
    public List<Student> getStudentsJSON() {
        return getStudents();
    }

    @GET
    @Path("/xml")
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
    // path would be http://localhost:8080/YourProject/service/student/xml
    public List<Student> getStudentsXML() {
        return getStudents();
    }

    @GET
    @Path("/json/{name}")
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    // path would be http://localhost:8080/YourProject/service/student/json/insertyournamehere
    public Student getStudentJSON(@PathParam("name") String name) {
        return new Student(name, name + " Address", 10, getBooks());
    }

    @GET
    @Path("/xml/{name}")
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
    // path would be http://localhost:8080/YourProject/service/student/xml/insertyournamehere
    public Student getStudentXML(@PathParam("name") String name) {
        return new Student(name, name + " Address", 10, getBooks());
    }

    private List<Book> getBooks() {
        List<Book> books = new ArrayList<Book>();
        books.add(new Book("Harry Potter", 100d));
        books.add(new Book("Lord of the Ring", 120d));
        books.add(new Book("Chicken Soup", 20d));
        books.add(new Book("Doraemon", 190d));
        books.add(new Book("Laskar Pelangi", 200d));
        return books;
    }

    private List<Student> getStudents() {
        List<Student> students = new ArrayList<Student>();
        students.add(new Student("Edwin", "Jakarta", 25, getBooks()));
        students.add(new Student("Kamplenk", "Ciledug", 29, getBooks()));
        students.add(new Student("Tebek", "Pamulang", 38, getBooks()));
        students.add(new Student("Syamsu", "Bandung", 60, getBooks()));
        return students;
    }
}

And dont forget to register your service class

package com.edw.config;

import com.edw.rest.StudentRest;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.HashSet;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;

public class ApplicationConfig extends Application {

    private Set<Object> singletons = new HashSet<Object>();
    private Set<Class<?>> empty = new HashSet<Class<?>>();

    public ApplicationConfig() {
        singletons.add(new StudentRest());
    }

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

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

And last, register all in your web.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher
        </servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>javax.ws.rs.Application</param-name>
            <param-value>com.edw.config.ApplicationConfig</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/service/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

Here are some screenshots,

Have fun with RESTEasy 😉