How to return List<String> as Response in JAX-RS

Question

I have read many articles to return List<String> things which I tried are:

1. GenericEntity (getting Internal server error)

2. GSON (getting only string)

Can anyone please help me how to return List<String> as a response in JAX-RS ?

Note: I am using Jersey .

I have tried below code it is working for XML response but not for JSON response

@XmlRootElement(name="List")
public class JAXBList<T> {

    protected List<T> list;

    public JAXBList(){}

    public JAXBList(List<T> list){
        this.list=list;
    }

    @XmlElement(name="Item")
    public List<T> getList(){
        return list;
    }
}

Answer 1

We can use Jackson to get List. I am able to Return List using Jackson. As String is inbuilt Class so doesn't support by jersey to return String. So Explicitly we need to do it from Jackson.