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Jersey Server: com.sun.jersey.api.MessageException: A message body writer for Java class org.codehaus.jackson.node.ObjectNode and MIME media type application/json was not found

I’ve been reacquainted with my good friend Jersey over the last couple of days and in getting up and running was reminded that things which seemed easy at the time aren’t as easy when starting from scratch.

I eventually settled on using Sunny Gleason's j4-minimal repository which wires up Jersey with Jackson, Guice and Jetty which seemed like a good place to start.

I prefer building up JSON objects explicitly rather than setting up automatic mapping so the first thing I did was change the https://github.com/sunnygleason/j4-minimal/blob/master/src/main/java/com/g414/j4/minimal/JacksonResource.java to have an end point that returned a manually built up JSON object:

@Path("/jackson")
public class JacksonResource {
    @GET
    @Produces( { MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
    @Path("/awesome/{who}")
    public Response sayOtherGreeting(@PathParam("who") String name) {
        ObjectNode result = JsonNodeFactory.instance.objectNode();
        result.put("name", name);
        return Response.ok().entity(result).build();
    }
}

When I tried to hit that in the browser I ended up with the following exception:

SEVERE: The registered message body writers compatible with the MIME media type are:
application/json ->
  com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONJAXBElementProvider$App
  com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONArrayProvider$App
  com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONObjectProvider$App
  com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONRootElementProvider$App
  com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONListElementProvider$App
*/* ->
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.FormProvider
  com.sun.jersey.server.impl.template.ViewableMessageBodyWriter
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.StringProvider
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.ByteArrayProvider
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.FileProvider
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.InputStreamProvider
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.DataSourceProvider
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.XMLJAXBElementProvider$General
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.ReaderProvider
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.DocumentProvider
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.StreamingOutputProvider
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.SourceProvider$SourceWriter
  com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONJAXBElementProvider$General
  com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONArrayProvider$General
  com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONObjectProvider$General
  com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONWithPaddingProvider
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.XMLRootElementProvider$General
  com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.XMLListElementProvider$General
  com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONRootElementProvider$General
  com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JSONListElementProvider$General
  com.sun.jersey.json.impl.provider.entity.JacksonProviderProxy

Jul 21, 2013 11:11:17 AM com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponse logException
SEVERE: Mapped exception to response: 500 (Internal Server Error)
javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException: com.sun.jersey.api.MessageException: A message body writer for Java class org.codehaus.jackson.node.ObjectNode, and Java type class org.codehaus.jackson.node.ObjectNode, and MIME media type application/json was not found
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponse.write(ContainerResponse.java:285)
	at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl._handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1451)
	at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl.handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1363)
	at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl.handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1353)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.service(WebComponent.java:414)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:537)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:708)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:848)
	at com.google.inject.servlet.ServletDefinition.doService(ServletDefinition.java:263)
	at com.google.inject.servlet.ServletDefinition.service(ServletDefinition.java:178)
	at com.google.inject.servlet.ManagedServletPipeline.service(ManagedServletPipeline.java:91)
	at com.google.inject.servlet.FilterChainInvocation.doFilter(FilterChainInvocation.java:62)
	at com.google.inject.servlet.ManagedFilterPipeline.dispatch(ManagedFilterPipeline.java:118)
	at com.google.inject.servlet.GuiceFilter.doFilter(GuiceFilter.java:113)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1338)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:484)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:231)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1065)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:413)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:192)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:999)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:117)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:111)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:350)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.handleRequest(AbstractHttpConnection.java:454)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:890)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:944)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:630)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:230)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AsyncHttpConnection.handle(AsyncHttpConnection.java:77)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.handle(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:606)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint$1.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:46)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:603)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:538)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: com.sun.jersey.api.MessageException: A message body writer for Java class org.codehaus.jackson.node.ObjectNode, and Java type class org.codehaus.jackson.node.ObjectNode, and MIME media type application/json was not found
	... 35 more

This is exactly the same problem that I wrote about last year with respect to Jersey Client.

It took me a little while but I eventually found a solution to the problem hidden about half way down a StackOverflow post for a similar exception.

We need to add the following property to our Jersey config:

Map<String, Object> config = new HashMap<String, Object>();
config.put("com.sun.jersey.api.json.POJOMappingFeature", true);

If we edit the SampleConfig from the template it will now look like this:

public class SampleConfig extends GuiceServletContextListener {
    @Override
    protected Injector getInjector() {
        return Guice.createInjector(new ServletModule() {
            @Override
            protected void configureServlets() {
                /* bind the REST resources */
                bind(BenchResource.class);
                bind(SampleResource.class);
                bind(JacksonResource.class);

                /* bind jackson converters for JAXB/JSON serialization */
                bind(MessageBodyReader.class).to(JacksonJsonProvider.class);
                bind(MessageBodyWriter.class).to(JacksonJsonProvider.class);
                Map<String, String> initParams = new HashMap<String, String>();
                initParams.put("com.sun.jersey.config.feature.Trace",
                        "true");
                initParams.put("com.sun.jersey.api.json.POJOMappingFeature", "true");
                serve("*").with(
                        GuiceContainer.class,
                        initParams);
            }
        });
    }

}

If we hit '/jackson/awesome/mark' it now returns JSON as expected:

$ curl http://localhost:8080/jackson/awesome/mark -w "\n"
{"name":"mark"}
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