jackson-data-format doesn't convert when using with restTemplate getforObject() - spring-boot

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Having a rest web service that returns the below xml response.
<Person>
<ttId>1408</ttId>
<FirstName>RAJ</FirstName>
<NationalityValue>INDIAN</NationalityValue>
<Sex>Male</Sex>
</Person>
This is the dto
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Date;
public class PersonInfoDto implements Serializable{
/**
*
*/
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private Long ttId;
private String NationalityValue;
private String Sex;
private String FirstName;
//getters and setters
}
Using Spring Boot, When I try to consume using code it returns only one value(which is in camel case). Do I need to add any Naming strategy to make it work ?
String uri = apiPath;
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
PersonInfoDto personInfoDto = restTemplate.getForObject(uri, PersonInfoDto.class);
//Here the object will contain only one value
ttId = 1408
rest values are returns null.
This is pom file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>msa</groupId>
<artifactId>MQA</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>MQA</name>
<description>MQA project</description>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<orika-core.version>1.4.6</orika-core.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/c3p0/c3p0 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>c3p0</groupId>
<artifactId>c3p0</artifactId>
<version>0.9.1.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Oracle JDBC driver -->
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.oracle/ojdbc14 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc14</artifactId>
<version>10.2.0.4.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<!-- Orika -->
<dependency>
<groupId>ma.glasnost.orika</groupId>
<artifactId>orika-core</artifactId>
<version>${orika-core.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
When I removed the below entry from it worked.
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
</dependency>
But to map the RequestBody with XML data this dependency is required.
How can I solve this, which converter does rest template is using ? Can I force rest template to use a particular converter. ?

Answer 1

Hi Try adding #XmlRootElement on the PersonInfoDto class. And try once in web browser giving the URI which you are passing.