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Building RESTful Web Services with Java EE 8
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Building RESTful Web Services with Java EE 8

by Mario-Leander Reimer
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
116 pages
2h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introduction to content types and content negotiation

In this section, we're going to take a look at using the @Produces and @Consumes annotations to specify the content types. We'll also learn about API versioning using custom content types, smart content negotiation using a quality from server factor, and how you can serve and upload binary content.

Let's switch to code and open our IDE. Let's take a look at the small REST service that we have prepared. As you already know, you can specify the @Produces or @Consumes annotations to specify what your REST service will consume as a content type and what content type your REST service will produce. What we do here is we specify application/json. This is what we usually do. We implement this ...

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