java - Create a text/plain Jersey response -

i have code works, looking better way it. have restful web api want support json, xml, , text media types. json , xml easy jaxb annotated "bean" class. got text/plain work, wish jersey little more intelligent , able convert list of beans, list<machine> string using tostring.

here resource class. json , xml media types use jaxb annotated bean class. text plain uses custom string format (basically stdout representation of command).

@path("/machines") public class machineresource {     private final machinemanager manager;      @inject     public machineresource(machinemanager manager) {         this.manager = manager;     }      @get @path("details/")     @produces({ mediatype.application_json, mediatype.application_xml })     public list<machine> details() {         return manager.details();     }     @get @path("details/")     @produces({ mediatype.text_plain })     public string detailstext() {         stringbuilder text = new stringbuilder();                for(machine machine : manager.details()) {             text.append(machine.tostring());         }         return text.tostring();     } 

is there better way jersey automatically converting string, have implement 1 method here? (that can handle 3 media types)

i see can implement messagebodywriter, seems lot more trouble.

edit:

if matters, using embedded jetty , jersey options.

thanks!

implementing messagebodyreader/writer need in order following:

@get @path("details/") @produces({ mediatype.application_json, mediatype.application_xml, mediatype.text_plain }) public list<machine> details() {     return manager.details(); } 

it's not code write, , if able write generic enough able re-use out of it.