After overriding the Application.getClasses() by a custom MessageBodyReader, methods on resource classes cannot be invoked - jax-rs

Question

In a RESTEasy project running on Wildfly server, there is a resource class:
#Path("/company")
public class CompanyResource {
#Inject
CompanyService companyService;
#PUT
#Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public void update(Company company) {
companyService.update(company);
}
}
Initially the REST API configuration class just extends Application without any extra #override on the existing methods of Application class. An http request, http://localhost:8080/workcontext/company, with PUT as the http request method could work, meaning the CompanyResource.update() can be invoked successfully when receiving the aforementioned http request.
However, I then tried to add a custom MessageBodyReader<Company>:
public class CompanyReader implements MessageBodyReader<Company> {
#Override
public boolean isReadable(Class<?> type, Type genericType, Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType) {
return true;
}
#Override
public Company readFrom(Class<Company> type, Type genericType, Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType,
MultivaluedMap<String, String> httpHeaders, InputStream entityStream)
throws IOException, WebApplicationException {
try(JsonReader reader = Json.createReader(entityStream)) {
JsonObject companyJson = reader.readObject();
Company company = new Company();
company.setCompanyCode(companyJson.getString("companyCode"));
company.setName(companyJson.getString("name"));
company.setHeadquarter(Region.valueOf(companyJson.getString("headquarter")));
return company;
}
}
}
In order to make this custom MessageBodyReader<Company> work, I registered this class by overriding the Application.getClasses():
public class JaxRsConfiguration extends Application {
#Override
public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
Set<Class<?>> classes = new HashSet<>();
classes.add(CompanyReader.class);
return classes;
}
}
I expected that this MessageBodyReader<Company> could be invoked when sending the same http PUT request, but on the opposite the response is: RESTEASY003210: Could not find resource for full path: http://localhost:8080/workcontext/company
Question: How to make this custom MessageBodyReader work?

Answer 1

You should annotate you're CompanyReader with #Provider. In your application if you return any classes in Application.getClasses() or Application.getSingletons() then, per the spec, those are the only classes allowed to be used in your application.
If either getClasses or getSingletons returns a non-empty collection then only those classes or singletons returned MUST be included in the published JAX-RS application.