The problem

As some background, I’m running the following:

• Jersey 1.15
• Apache Tomcat 7

The specific error that we’re going to fix is:

SEVERE: The following errors and warnings have been detected with resource and/or provider classes:
SEVERE: Missing dependency for method public au.com.your.package.YourResponse au.com.your.package.YourClass.someMethod(au.com.your.package.YourRequest) at parameter at index 0
SEVERE: Method, public au.com.your.package.YourResponse au.com.your.package.YourClass.someMethod(au.com.your.package.YourRequest), annotated with GET of resource, class au.com.your.package.YourClass, is not recognized as valid resource method.

If you’re running Tomcat like I am then you’ll see this in your catalina.out log file.

The fix

Your request object, that is the parameter to the method that’s mentioned in the error (au.com.your.package.YourRequest in the example), needs a valueOf method added. Something like this:

import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;

  public static YourRequest valueOf(String reqJson) {
    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    try {
      return mapper.readValue(reqJson, YourRequest.class);
    } catch (Exception e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }