Working with XML in Spring Boot REST

Author: nilandev

spring-boot-movies-xml-api/build.gradle

@@ -24,11 +24,10 @@ repositories {
 dependencies {
 	implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
 	implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb'
-	implementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml'
-
 	compileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok'
 	annotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok'
 	testImplementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test'
+	implementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml:2.17.1'
 }
 
 tasks.named('test') {

spring-boot-movies-xml-api/src/main/java/com/stacktips/movies/api/MoviesController.java

@@ -5,13 +5,12 @@
 import com.stacktips.movies.models.Movies;
 import com.stacktips.movies.services.MovieService;
 import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
-import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;
 
 @RestController
 @RequestMapping(value = "/api/1.0/movies",
-        consumes = {MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE},
-        produces = {MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE}
+        produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE,
+        consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE
 )
 public class MoviesController {
 
@@ -22,9 +21,8 @@ public MoviesController(MovieService movieService) {
     }
 
     @GetMapping
-    public ResponseEntity<Movies> getMovies() {
-        Movies movies = new Movies(movieService.getMovies());
-        return ResponseEntity.ok(movies);
+    public Movies getMovies() {
+        return new Movies(movieService.getMovies());
     }
 
     @PostMapping

spring-boot-movies-xml-api/src/main/java/com/stacktips/movies/models/Movie.java

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 package com.stacktips.movies.models;
 
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.annotation.JacksonXmlRootElement;
+import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.Getter;
+import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.Setter;
 import org.springframework.data.annotation.Id;
 import org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.Document;
@@ -10,8 +11,9 @@
 
 @Getter
 @Setter
-@JacksonXmlRootElement(localName = "Movie")
 @Document(collection = "movie")
+@AllArgsConstructor
+@NoArgsConstructor
 public class Movie {
 
     @Id

spring-boot-movies-xml-api/src/main/resources/application.properties

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-spring.data.mongodb.uri=mongodb://localhost:27017/movies_xml?locale=en
+spring.data.mongodb.uri=mongodb://localhost:27017/movies?locale=en
 spring.data.mongodb.username=
 spring.data.mongodb.password=
 spring.data.mongodb.authentication-database=