Camel & CXF & REST: ERROR No message body writer has been found for class java.util.ArrayList, ContentType: application/json - spring

Question

In my Spring configuration file:
<bean id="jacksonJsonProvider" class="org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJsonProvider" />
<bean id="restJacksonProviderList" class="java.util.ArrayList">
<constructor-arg>
<list>
<ref bean="jacksonJsonProvider"/>
</list>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
//......
<route id="RestMyRoute">
<from id="RestRequest" uri="cxfrs:/rest/MyService?resourceClasses=com.myself.services.MyService&bindingStyle=SimpleConsumer&providers=#restJacksonProviderList" />
<to uri="direct:doRoute" />
</route>
The Service interface:
#GET
#Path("/my/something/{id}")
#Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
#Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
#WebMethod
#WebResult(name = "getSomethingResponse")
public List<MySomething> getSomething(
#PathParam("id") #WebParam(name = "id") String id);
The code above works! I can send the get request to the URl and I get a JSON response.
Now, I do a small change: Instead of defining the web service's URL (and the route) by XML configuration, I define them by Java code:
public class MyRoute extends RouteBuilder {
private String uriRest = "cxfrs:/rest/MyService?resourceClasses=com.myself.services.MyService&bindingStyle=SimpleConsumer&providers=#restJacksonProviderList";
#Override
public void configure() throws Exception {
from(uriRest).
to("log:input").
to("direct:doRoute").
to("log:output");
}
}
When I hit the web service URL, I am getting 500 Internal Server Error and in the logs (Tomcat) I see JAXRSUtils ERROR No message body writer has been found for class java.util.ArrayList, ContentType: application/json
Actually the debugger tells me that defining the URI by Java code is recognized, since I do hit the code inside the route.
I saw this error in many answers here, basically they say to add a Json provider and assign it to the CXF endpoint.
Seems to me like it is what I have done. But it does not work.
Any idea what I am doing wrong here?

Answer 1

As peeskillet said, it's because there isn't a list of providers registered under the name restJacksonProviderList. You can get the JndiContext like this and bind a list to it in the configure method of your routebuilder:
JndiContext registry = (JndiRegistry) context.getRegistry();
registry.bind("restJacksonProviderList", Arrays.asList(new JacksonJsonProvider()));
Edit after comments:
Change & for & in your cxfrs uri definition, & is only needed in xml.