12.11. Configure File Extensions

12.11.1. Map File Extensions to Media Types in the web.xml File

Summary

Some clients, like browsers, cannot use the Accept and Accept-Language headers to negotiate the representation's media type or language. RESTEasy can map file name suffixes to media types and languages to deal with this issue. Follow these steps to map media types to file extensions, in the web.xml file.

Procedure 12.4. Map Media Types to File Extensions

  1. Open the web.xml file for the application in a text editor.
  2. Add the context-param resteasy.media.type.mappings to the file, inside the web-app tags:
    <context-param>
        <param-name>resteasy.media.type.mappings</param-name>
    </context-param>
    
    
  3. Configure the parameter values. The mappings form a comma delimited list. Each mapping is delimited by a ::

    Example 12.13. Example Mapping

    <context-param>
        <param-name>resteasy.media.type.mappings</param-name>
        <param-value>html : text/html, json : application/json, xml : application/xml</param-value>
    </context-param>