topic Custom RestVariableConverters in Alfresco Archive

Custom RestVariableConverters

jsalmon — Thu, 07 May 2015 22:02:55 GMT

Hi,First off, thank you for Activiti! It looks really great so far.I'm trying to implement a custom RestVariableConverter in order to return my POJO variables as JSON in REST responses. My question is fairly similar to this one, but I didn't find a satisfactory answer there.I don't want to clone the

Re: Custom RestVariableConverters

jsalmon — Thu, 07 May 2015 22:36:08 GMT

Okay, so I managed to do this by copying org.activiti.spring.boot.RestApiAutoConfiguration and returning a custom RestResponseFactory bean. But I feel like there should be a better way of doing it?

Re: Custom RestVariableConverters

trademak — Wed, 13 May 2015 13:14:42 GMT

The REST web application is just an example application with a default config. All the logic is part of the activiti-rest module. An alternative is to use the Spring XML configuration instead.

Best regards,

Re: Custom RestVariableConverters

blaketsk — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 08:21:36 GMT

You don't need to copy RestApiAutoConfiguration. Try this:

@Autowired

private RestResponseFactory restResponseFactory;

@PostConstruct

public void addCustomConverters() {

restResponseFactory.getVariableConverters().add(new YourCustomRestVariableConverter());

}