Given e.g.

@DELETE
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
@Path("

{id}

")
public void remove(@PathParam("id") String id, Foo foo);

or:

@POST
@Path("install")
public Response install(Action action);

If an empty entity body is supplied, the following happens ...

Without Content-type:

DELETE /rhevm-api-mock/storagedomains/1 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Accept: application/xml

HTTP/1.1 400 content-type was null and expecting to extract a body into public abstract void com.redhat.rhevm.api.resource.StorageDomainsResource.remove(java.lang.String,com.redhat.rhevm.api.model.StorageDomain)
Content-Length: 0

With Content-type: application/xml:

DELETE /rhevm-api-mock/storagedomains/1 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Accept: application/xml
Content-type: application/xml

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Content-Length: 0

Exception is:

org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.JAXBMarshalException: javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException

• with linked exception:
  [org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Premature end of file.]
  at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.JAXBXmlTypeProvider.readFrom(JAXBXmlTypeProvider.java:99)
  at org.jboss.resteasy.core.interception.MessageBodyReaderContextImpl.proceed(MessageBodyReaderContextImpl.java:105)
  ...
  Caused by: javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException
• with linked exception:
  [org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Premature end of file.]
  at javax.xml.bind.helpers.AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.createUnmarshalException(AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.java:335)
  at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.createUnmarshalException(UnmarshallerImpl.java:514)
  at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal0(UnmarshallerImpl.java:215)
  ...
  at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.JAXBXmlTypeProvider.readFrom(JAXBXmlTypeProvider.java:85)
  ... 35 more
  ...
  Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Premature end of file.
  at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:198)
  at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:177)

This hacky patch makes a null entity parameter be passed in the latter case:

— a/tags/RESTEASY_JAXRS_2_0_1_GA/providers/jaxb/src/main/java/org/jboss/resteasy/plugins/providers/jaxb/JAXBXmlTypeProvider.java
+++ b/tags/RESTEASY_JAXRS_2_0_1_GA/providers/jaxb/src/main/java/org/jboss/resteasy/plugins/providers/jaxb/JAXBXmlTypeProvider.java
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ public class JAXBXmlTypeProvider extends AbstractJAXBProvider<Object>
@Override
public Object readFrom(Class<Object> type, Type genericType, Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType, MultivaluedMap<String, String> httpHeaders, I
{
+ if (entityStream.available() == 0)

{ + return null; + }

try
{
JAXBContext jaxb = findJAXBContext(type, annotations, mediaType, true);

Ideally, the former case (i.e. no Content-type specified) work work too