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org.springframework.jms/src/main/java/org/springframework/jms/support/converter/MarshallingMessageConverter.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2010 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2011 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -57,10 +57,11 @@ public class MarshallingMessageConverter implements MessageConverter, Initializi
 
 	private MessageType targetType = MessageType.BYTES;
 
+
 	/**
-	 * Construct a new <code>MarshallingMessageConverter</code> with no {@link Marshaller} or {@link Unmarshaller} set.
-	 * The marshaller must be set after construction by invoking {@link #setMarshaller(Marshaller)} and
-	 * {@link #setUnmarshaller(Unmarshaller)} .
+	 * Construct a new <code>MarshallingMessageConverter</code> with no {@link Marshaller}
+	 * or {@link Unmarshaller} set. The marshaller must be set after construction by invoking
+	 * {@link #setMarshaller(Marshaller)} and {@link #setUnmarshaller(Unmarshaller)} .
 	 */
 	public MarshallingMessageConverter() {
 	}
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ public class MarshallingMessageConverter implements MessageConverter, Initializi
 		if (!(marshaller instanceof Unmarshaller)) {
 			throw new IllegalArgumentException(
 					"Marshaller [" + marshaller + "] does not implement the Unmarshaller " +
-					"interface. Please set an Unmarshaller explicitely by using the " +
+					"interface. Please set an Unmarshaller explicitly by using the " +
 					"MarshallingMessageConverter(Marshaller, Unmarshaller) constructor.");
 		}
 		else {
@@ -127,6 +128,7 @@ public class MarshallingMessageConverter implements MessageConverter, Initializi
 	 * @see MessageType#TEXT
 	 */
 	public void setTargetType(MessageType targetType) {
+		Assert.notNull(targetType, "MessageType must not be null");
 		this.targetType = targetType;
 	}
 
@@ -251,8 +253,8 @@ public class MarshallingMessageConverter implements MessageConverter, Initializi
 	protected Message marshalToMessage(Object object, Session session, Marshaller marshaller, MessageType targetType)
 			throws JMSException, IOException, XmlMappingException {
 
-		throw new IllegalArgumentException(
-				"Unsupported message type [" + targetType + "]. Cannot marshal to the specified message type.");
+		throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported message type [" + targetType +
+				"]. MarshallingMessageConverter by default only supports TextMessages and BytesMessages.");
 	}
 
 
@@ -308,8 +310,8 @@ public class MarshallingMessageConverter implements MessageConverter, Initializi
 	protected Object unmarshalFromMessage(Message message, Unmarshaller unmarshaller)
 			throws JMSException, IOException, XmlMappingException {
 
-		throw new IllegalArgumentException(
-				"MarshallingMessageConverter only supports TextMessages and BytesMessages");
+		throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported message type [" + message.getClass() +
+				"]. MarshallingMessageConverter by default only supports TextMessages and BytesMessages.");
 	}
 
 }

org.springframework.oxm/src/main/java/org/springframework/oxm/xstream/XStreamMarshaller.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2010 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2011 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -110,11 +110,12 @@ public class XStreamMarshaller extends AbstractMarshaller implements Initializin
 
 	private ClassLoader classLoader;
 
+
 	/**
 	 * Returns the XStream instance used by this marshaller.
 	 */
 	public XStream getXStream() {
-		return xstream;
+		return this.xstream;
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -150,7 +151,6 @@ public class XStreamMarshaller extends AbstractMarshaller implements Initializin
 	/**
 	 * Sets an alias/type map, consisting of string aliases mapped to classes. Keys are aliases; values are either
 	 * {@code Class} instances, or String class names.
-	 *
 	 * @see XStream#alias(String, Class)
 	 */
 	public void setAliases(Map<String, ?> aliases) throws ClassNotFoundException {
@@ -165,7 +165,6 @@ public class XStreamMarshaller extends AbstractMarshaller implements Initializin
 	 * Sets the aliases by type map, consisting of string aliases mapped to classes. Any class that is assignable to
 	 * this type will be aliased to the same name. Keys are aliases; values are either
 	 * {@code Class} instances, or String class names.
-	 *
 	 * @see XStream#aliasType(String, Class)
 	 */
 	public void setAliasesByType(Map<String, ?> aliases) throws ClassNotFoundException {
@@ -325,9 +324,9 @@ public class XStreamMarshaller extends AbstractMarshaller implements Initializin
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Set the auto-detection mode of XStream.
-	 * <p><strong>Note</strong> that auto-detection implies that the XStream is configured while it is processing the
-	 * XML steams, and thus introduces a potential concurrency problem.
+	 * Set the autodetection mode of XStream.
+	 * <p><strong>Note</strong> that auto-detection implies that the XStream is configured while
+	 * it is processing the XML streams, and thus introduces a potential concurrency problem.
 	 * @see XStream#autodetectAnnotations(boolean)
 	 */
 	public void setAutodetectAnnotations(boolean autodetectAnnotations) {
@@ -358,22 +357,24 @@ public class XStreamMarshaller extends AbstractMarshaller implements Initializin
 		this.supportedClasses = supportedClasses;
 	}
 
-	public final void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {
-		customizeXStream(getXStream());
-	}
-
 	public void setBeanClassLoader(ClassLoader classLoader) {
 		this.classLoader = classLoader;
 	}
 
+
+	public final void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {
+		customizeXStream(getXStream());
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Template to allow for customizing of the given {@link XStream}.
-	 * <p>Default implementation is empty.
+	 * <p>The default implementation is empty.
 	 * @param xstream the {@code XStream} instance
 	 */
 	protected void customizeXStream(XStream xstream) {
 	}
 
+
 	public boolean supports(Class clazz) {
 		if (ObjectUtils.isEmpty(this.supportedClasses)) {
 			return true;
@@ -438,8 +439,8 @@ public class XStreamMarshaller extends AbstractMarshaller implements Initializin
 
 	@Override
 	protected void marshalWriter(Object graph, Writer writer) throws XmlMappingException, IOException {
-		if (streamDriver != null) {
-			marshal(graph, streamDriver.createWriter(writer));
+		if (this.streamDriver != null) {
+			marshal(graph, this.streamDriver.createWriter(writer));
 		}
 		else {
 			marshal(graph, new CompactWriter(writer));
@@ -467,6 +468,7 @@ public class XStreamMarshaller extends AbstractMarshaller implements Initializin
 		}
 	}
 
+
 	// Unmarshalling
 
 	@Override

org.springframework.web.servlet/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/view/json/MappingJacksonJsonView.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2010 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2011 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
-
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 
@@ -28,6 +27,7 @@ import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonEncoding;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerator;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.map.SerializerFactory;
+
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 import org.springframework.util.CollectionUtils;
 import org.springframework.validation.BindingResult;
@@ -35,19 +35,18 @@ import org.springframework.web.servlet.View;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView;
 
 /**
- * Spring-MVC {@link View} that renders JSON content by serializing the model for the current request using <a
- * href="http://jackson.codehaus.org/">Jackson's</a> {@link ObjectMapper}.
+ * Spring MVC {@link View} that renders JSON content by serializing the model for the current request
+ * using <a href="http://jackson.codehaus.org/">Jackson's</a> {@link ObjectMapper}.
  *
- * <p>By default, the entire contents of the model map (with the exception of framework-specific classes) will be
- * encoded as JSON. If the model contains only one key, you can have it extracted encoded as JSON alone via 
- * {@link #setExtractValueFromSingleKeyModel(boolean)}. Or you can select specific model attributes to be encoded
- * as JSON via ... TODO 
+ * <p>By default, the entire contents of the model map (with the exception of framework-specific classes)
+ * will be encoded as JSON. If the model contains only one key, you can have it extracted encoded as JSON
+ * alone via  {@link #setExtractValueFromSingleKeyModel}.
  *
  * @author Jeremy Grelle
  * @author Arjen Poutsma
  * @author Rossen Stoyanchev
- * @see org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter
  * @since 3.0
+ * @see org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter
  */
 public class MappingJacksonJsonView extends AbstractView {
 
@@ -56,6 +55,7 @@ public class MappingJacksonJsonView extends AbstractView {
 	 */
 	public static final String DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE = "application/json";
 
+
 	private ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
 
 	private JsonEncoding encoding = JsonEncoding.UTF8;
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ public class MappingJacksonJsonView extends AbstractView {
 
 	private boolean disableCaching = true;
 	
+
 	/**
 	 * Construct a new {@code JacksonJsonView}, setting the content type to {@code application/json}.
 	 */
@@ -76,14 +77,15 @@ public class MappingJacksonJsonView extends AbstractView {
 		setExposePathVariables(false);
 	}
 
+
 	/**
-	 * Sets the {@code ObjectMapper} for this view. If not set, a default {@link ObjectMapper#ObjectMapper() ObjectMapper}
-	 * is used.
-	 *
-	 * <p>Setting a custom-configured {@code ObjectMapper} is one way to take further control of the JSON serialization
-	 * process. For example, an extended {@link SerializerFactory} can be configured that provides custom serializers for
-	 * specific types. The other option for refining the serialization process is to use Jackson's provided annotations on
-	 * the types to be serialized, in which case a custom-configured ObjectMapper is unnecessary.
+	 * Sets the {@code ObjectMapper} for this view.
+	 * If not set, a default {@link ObjectMapper#ObjectMapper() ObjectMapper} is used.
+	 * <p>Setting a custom-configured {@code ObjectMapper} is one way to take further control
+	 * of the JSON serialization process. For example, an extended {@link SerializerFactory}
+	 * can be configured that provides custom serializers for specific types. The other option
+	 * for refining the serialization process is to use Jackson's provided annotations on the
+	 * types to be serialized, in which case a custom-configured ObjectMapper is unnecessary.
 	 */
 	public void setObjectMapper(ObjectMapper objectMapper) {
 		Assert.notNull(objectMapper, "'objectMapper' must not be null");
@@ -91,7 +93,8 @@ public class MappingJacksonJsonView extends AbstractView {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Sets the {@code JsonEncoding} for this converter. By default, {@linkplain JsonEncoding#UTF8 UTF-8} is used.
+	 * Set the {@code JsonEncoding} for this converter.
+	 * By default, {@linkplain JsonEncoding#UTF8 UTF-8} is used.
 	 */
 	public void setEncoding(JsonEncoding encoding) {
 		Assert.notNull(encoding, "'encoding' must not be null");
@@ -99,18 +102,19 @@ public class MappingJacksonJsonView extends AbstractView {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Indicates whether the JSON output by this view should be prefixed with <tt>"{} && "</tt>. Default is false.
-	 *
-	 * <p> Prefixing the JSON string in this manner is used to help prevent JSON Hijacking. The prefix renders the string
-	 * syntactically invalid as a script so that it cannot be hijacked. This prefix does not affect the evaluation of JSON,
-	 * but if JSON validation is performed on the string, the prefix would need to be ignored.
+	 * Indicates whether the JSON output by this view should be prefixed with <tt>"{} && "</tt>.
+	 * Default is false.
+	 * <p>Prefixing the JSON string in this manner is used to help prevent JSON Hijacking.
+	 * The prefix renders the string syntactically invalid as a script so that it cannot be hijacked.
+	 * This prefix does not affect the evaluation of JSON, but if JSON validation is performed
+	 * on the string, the prefix would need to be ignored.
 	 */
 	public void setPrefixJson(boolean prefixJson) {
 		this.prefixJson = prefixJson;
 	}
-	
+
 	/**
-	 * Sets the attribute in the model that should be rendered by this view. 
+	 * Set the attribute in the model that should be rendered by this view.
 	 * When set, all other model attributes will be ignored.
 	 */
 	public void setModelKey(String modelKey) {
@@ -118,7 +122,7 @@ public class MappingJacksonJsonView extends AbstractView {
 	}
 	
 	/**
-	 * Sets the attributes in the model that should be rendered by this view. 
+	 * Set the attributes in the model that should be rendered by this view.
 	 * When set, all other model attributes will be ignored.
 	 */
 	public void setModelKeys(Set<String> modelKeys) {
@@ -126,56 +130,56 @@ public class MappingJacksonJsonView extends AbstractView {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Returns the attributes in the model that should be rendered by this view.
+	 * Return the attributes in the model that should be rendered by this view.
 	 */
 	public Set<String> getModelKeys() {
-		return modelKeys;
+		return this.modelKeys;
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Sets the attributes in the model that should be rendered by this view. 
+	 * Set the attributes in the model that should be rendered by this view.
 	 * When set, all other model attributes will be ignored.
 	 * @deprecated use {@link #setModelKeys(Set)} instead
 	 */
+	@Deprecated
 	public void setRenderedAttributes(Set<String> renderedAttributes) {
 		this.modelKeys = renderedAttributes;
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Returns the attributes in the model that should be rendered by this view.
+	 * Return the attributes in the model that should be rendered by this view.
 	 * @deprecated use {@link #getModelKeys()} instead
 	 */
+	@Deprecated
 	public Set<String> getRenderedAttributes() {
-		return modelKeys;
+		return this.modelKeys;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Set whether to serialize models containing a single attribute as a map or whether to
+	 * extract the single value from the model and serialize it directly.
+	 * <p>The effect of setting this flag is similar to using {@code MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter}
+	 * with an {@code @ResponseBody} request-handling method.
+	 * <p>Default is {@code false}.
+	 */
+	public void setExtractValueFromSingleKeyModel(boolean extractValueFromSingleKeyModel) {
+		this.extractValueFromSingleKeyModel = extractValueFromSingleKeyModel;
 	}
 
 	/**
 	 * Disables caching of the generated JSON.
-	 *
 	 * <p>Default is {@code true}, which will prevent the client from caching the generated JSON.
 	 */
 	public void setDisableCaching(boolean disableCaching) {
 		this.disableCaching = disableCaching;
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Set whether to serialize models containing a single attribute as a map or whether to 
-	 * extract the single value from the model and serialize it directly.
-	 * The effect of setting this flag is similar to using 
-	 * {@code MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter} with an {@code @ResponseBody}.
-	 * request-handling method.  
-	 * 
-	 * <p>Default is {@code false}. 
-	 */
-	public void setExtractValueFromSingleKeyModel(boolean extractValueFromSingleKeyModel) {
-		this.extractValueFromSingleKeyModel = extractValueFromSingleKeyModel;
-	}
 
 	@Override
 	protected void prepareResponse(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
 		response.setContentType(getContentType());
-		response.setCharacterEncoding(encoding.getJavaName());
-		if (disableCaching) {
+		response.setCharacterEncoding(this.encoding.getJavaName());
+		if (this.disableCaching) {
 			response.addHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
 			response.addHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, max-age=0");
 			response.addDateHeader("Expires", 1L);
@@ -183,38 +187,35 @@ public class MappingJacksonJsonView extends AbstractView {
 	}
 
 	@Override
-	protected void renderMergedOutputModel(Map<String, Object> model,
-			HttpServletRequest request,
+	protected void renderMergedOutputModel(Map<String, Object> model, HttpServletRequest request,
 			HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
+
 		Object value = filterModel(model);
 		JsonGenerator generator =
-				objectMapper.getJsonFactory().createJsonGenerator(response.getOutputStream(), encoding);
-		if (prefixJson) {
+				this.objectMapper.getJsonFactory().createJsonGenerator(response.getOutputStream(), this.encoding);
+		if (this.prefixJson) {
 			generator.writeRaw("{} && ");
 		}
-		objectMapper.writeValue(generator, value);
+		this.objectMapper.writeValue(generator, value);
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Filters out undesired attributes from the given model. The return value can be either another {@link Map}, or a
-	 * single value object.
-	 *
-	 * <p>Default implementation removes {@link BindingResult} instances and entries not included in the {@link
-	 * #setRenderedAttributes(Set) renderedAttributes} property.
-	 *
+	 * Filters out undesired attributes from the given model.
+	 * The return value can be either another {@link Map} or a single value object.
+	 * <p>The default implementation removes {@link BindingResult} instances and entries
+	 * not included in the {@link #setRenderedAttributes renderedAttributes} property.
 	 * @param model the model, as passed on to {@link #renderMergedOutputModel}
 	 * @return the object to be rendered
 	 */
 	protected Object filterModel(Map<String, Object> model) {
 		Map<String, Object> result = new HashMap<String, Object>(model.size());
-		Set<String> renderedAttributes =
-				!CollectionUtils.isEmpty(this.modelKeys) ? this.modelKeys : model.keySet();
+		Set<String> renderedAttributes = (!CollectionUtils.isEmpty(this.modelKeys) ? this.modelKeys : model.keySet());
 		for (Map.Entry<String, Object> entry : model.entrySet()) {
 			if (!(entry.getValue() instanceof BindingResult) && renderedAttributes.contains(entry.getKey())) {
 				result.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
 			}
 		}
-		return (this.extractValueFromSingleKeyModel && result.size() == 1) ? result.values().iterator().next() : result;
+		return (this.extractValueFromSingleKeyModel && result.size() == 1 ? result.values().iterator().next() : result);
 	}
 
 }

org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/MediaType.java

@@ -474,7 +474,6 @@ public class MediaType implements Comparable<MediaType> {
 			int otherPlusIdx = other.subtype.indexOf('+');
 			if (thisPlusIdx != -1 && otherPlusIdx != -1) {
 				String thisSubtypeNoSuffix = this.subtype.substring(0, thisPlusIdx);
-
 				String thisSubtypeSuffix = this.subtype.substring(thisPlusIdx + 1);
 				String otherSubtypeSuffix = other.subtype.substring(otherPlusIdx + 1);
 				if (thisSubtypeSuffix.equals(otherSubtypeSuffix) && WILDCARD_TYPE.equals(thisSubtypeNoSuffix)) {

org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/json/MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter.java

@@ -16,16 +16,13 @@
 
 package org.springframework.http.converter.json;
 
-import java.io.EOFException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonEncoding;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerator;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException;
+import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonProcessingException;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.map.type.TypeFactory;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.type.JavaType;
@@ -55,6 +52,7 @@ public class MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter extends AbstractHttpMessageConve
 
 	public static final Charset DEFAULT_CHARSET = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
 
+
 	private ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
 
 	private boolean prefixJson = false;
@@ -106,27 +104,6 @@ public class MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter extends AbstractHttpMessageConve
 		return (this.objectMapper.canDeserialize(javaType) && canRead(mediaType));
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Returns the Jackson {@link JavaType} for the specific class.
-	 * <p>The default implementation returns {@link TypeFactory#type(java.lang.reflect.Type)},
-	 * but this can be overridden in subclasses, to allow for custom generic collection handling.
-	 * For instance:
-	 * <pre class="code">
-	 * protected JavaType getJavaType(Class&lt;?&gt; clazz) {
-	 *   if (List.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)) {
-	 *     return TypeFactory.collectionType(ArrayList.class, MyBean.class);
-	 *   } else {
-	 *     return super.getJavaType(clazz);
-	 *   }
-	 * }
-	 * </pre>
-	 * @param clazz the class to return the java type for
-	 * @return the java type
-	 */
-	protected JavaType getJavaType(Class<?> clazz) {
-		return TypeFactory.type(clazz);
-	}
-
 	@Override
 	public boolean canWrite(Class<?> clazz, MediaType mediaType) {
 		return (this.objectMapper.canSerialize(clazz) && canWrite(mediaType));
@@ -146,36 +123,57 @@ public class MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter extends AbstractHttpMessageConve
 		try {
 			return this.objectMapper.readValue(inputMessage.getBody(), javaType);
 		}
-		catch (JsonParseException ex) {
-			throw new HttpMessageNotReadableException("Could not read JSON: " + ex.getMessage(), ex);
-		}
-		catch (JsonMappingException ex) {
-			throw new HttpMessageNotReadableException("Could not read JSON: " + ex.getMessage(), ex);
-		}
-		catch (EOFException ex) {
+		catch (JsonProcessingException ex) {
 			throw new HttpMessageNotReadableException("Could not read JSON: " + ex.getMessage(), ex);
 		}
 	}
 
 	@Override
-	protected void writeInternal(Object o, HttpOutputMessage outputMessage)
+	protected void writeInternal(Object object, HttpOutputMessage outputMessage)
 			throws IOException, HttpMessageNotWritableException {
 
-		JsonEncoding encoding = getEncoding(outputMessage.getHeaders().getContentType());
+		JsonEncoding encoding = getJsonEncoding(outputMessage.getHeaders().getContentType());
 		JsonGenerator jsonGenerator =
 				this.objectMapper.getJsonFactory().createJsonGenerator(outputMessage.getBody(), encoding);
 		try {
 			if (this.prefixJson) {
 				jsonGenerator.writeRaw("{} && ");
 			}
-			this.objectMapper.writeValue(jsonGenerator, o);
+			this.objectMapper.writeValue(jsonGenerator, object);
 		}
-		catch (JsonGenerationException ex) {
+		catch (JsonProcessingException ex) {
 			throw new HttpMessageNotWritableException("Could not write JSON: " + ex.getMessage(), ex);
 		}
 	}
 
-	private JsonEncoding getEncoding(MediaType contentType) {
+
+	/**
+	 * Return the Jackson {@link JavaType} for the specified class.
+	 * <p>The default implementation returns {@link TypeFactory#type(java.lang.reflect.Type)},
+	 * but this can be overridden in subclasses, to allow for custom generic collection handling.
+	 * For instance:
+	 * <pre class="code">
+	 * protected JavaType getJavaType(Class&lt;?&gt; clazz) {
+	 *   if (List.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)) {
+	 *     return TypeFactory.collectionType(ArrayList.class, MyBean.class);
+	 *   } else {
+	 *     return super.getJavaType(clazz);
+	 *   }
+	 * }
+	 * </pre>
+	 * @param clazz the class to return the java type for
+	 * @return the java type
+	 */
+	protected JavaType getJavaType(Class<?> clazz) {
+		return TypeFactory.type(clazz);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Determine the JSON encoding to use for the given content type.
+	 * @param contentType the media type as requested by the caller
+	 * @return the JSON encoding to use (never <code>null</code>)
+	 */
+	protected JsonEncoding getJsonEncoding(MediaType contentType) {
 		if (contentType != null && contentType.getCharSet() != null) {
 			Charset charset = contentType.getCharSet();
 			for (JsonEncoding encoding : JsonEncoding.values()) {