Interface HttpMessageConverters

All Superinterfaces:

Iterable<HttpMessageConverter<?>>

public interface HttpMessageConverters
extends Iterable<HttpMessageConverter<?>>

Utility for building and configuring an immutable collection of HttpMessageConverter instances for client or server usage. You can ask to register default converters with classpath detection, add custom converters and post-process configured converters.

Since:

7.0

Author:

Brian Clozel

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface	Description
static interface	HttpMessageConverters.Builder<T extends HttpMessageConverters.Builder<T>>
static interface	HttpMessageConverters.ClientBuilder	Client builder for an HttpMessageConverters instance.
static interface	HttpMessageConverters.ServerBuilder	Server builder for an HttpMessageConverters instance.

Method Summary

Static Methods

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static HttpMessageConverters.ClientBuilder	forClient()	Create a builder instance, tailored for HTTP client usage.
static HttpMessageConverters.ServerBuilder	forServer()	Create a builder instance, tailored for HTTP server usage.

Methods inherited from interface Iterable

forEach, iterator, spliterator

Method Details

forClient

static HttpMessageConverters.ClientBuilder forClient()

Create a builder instance, tailored for HTTP client usage.

The following HTTP message converters can be detected and registered if available, in order:

1. All custom message converters configured with the builder
2. ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter
3. StringHttpMessageConverter with the StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1 charset
4. ResourceHttpMessageConverter, with resource streaming support disabled
5. a Multipart converter, using all detected and custom converters for part conversion
6. A JSON converter
7. A Smile converter
8. A CBOR converter
9. A YAML converter
10. An XML converter
11. A ProtoBuf converter
12. ATOM and RSS converters

forServer

static HttpMessageConverters.ServerBuilder forServer()

Create a builder instance, tailored for HTTP server usage.

The following HTTP message converters can be detected and registered if available, in order:

1. All custom message converters configured with the builder
2. ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter
3. StringHttpMessageConverter with the StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1 charset
4. ResourceHttpMessageConverter
5. ResourceRegionHttpMessageConverter
6. A JSON converter
7. A Smile converter
8. A CBOR converter
9. A YAML converter
10. An XML converter
11. A ProtoBuf converter
12. ATOM and RSS converters
13. a Multipart converter, using all detected and custom converters for part conversion