How can I enable GZIP compression of the JSON response entity on Reslet?

Question

I have a Restlet application already working that accepts JSON and returns JSON entity as response.

I'm trying to understand how I can compress the JSON entity that is returned in the response. I did not find any clear example on how to achieve it.

I think I have to put somewhere on the router chain the Encoder/EncoderService classes, but I really don't understand where and how to use them.

Could anybody help me?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 13 '13 at 23:22

After some testing, I got the answer.

Creating a new filter like this

Filter encoder = new Encoder(getContext(), false, true, new EncoderService(true));

inside the createInboundRoot() method of my own Application class did the trick, the client requests were already containing the gzip header needed.

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