protected Representation formatJSON(JSON json, Variant variant) {
    Representation r = null;
    // TODO: Firefox 2 seems to not send the specified application/json header
    //       (especially after a redirect)
    //       so we will send application/json always for now
    //       (as we don't support this API any other way right now)
    if (true /* TODO:  This is a hack */) {
      r = new StringRepresentation(json.toString(), MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
    } else if (MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON.equals(variant.getMediaType())
        || MediaType.APPLICATION_JAVASCRIPT.equals(variant.getMediaType())
        || MediaType.TEXT_JAVASCRIPT.equals(variant.getMediaType())) {
      r = new StringRepresentation(json.toString(), variant.getMediaType());
      // TODO: make this output streaming! (this library does not support it, which is fairly
      // crazy!)
    } else if (MediaType.APPLICATION_XML.equals(variant.getMediaType())
        || MediaType.TEXT_XML.equals(variant.getMediaType())) {
      r = new StringRepresentation(new XMLSerializer().write(json), variant.getMediaType());
    } else if (MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN.equals(variant.getMediaType())
        || MediaType.TEXT_HTML.equals(variant.getMediaType())) {
      r = new StringRepresentation(json.toString(4), variant.getMediaType());
    } else {
      getResponse().setStatus(Status.CLIENT_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE);
    }

    r.setCharacterSet(CharacterSet.UTF_8);
    return r;
  }
  protected XStreamRepresentation createRepresentation(Variant variant) throws ResourceException {
    XStreamRepresentation representation = null;

    try {
      // check is this variant a supported one, to avoid calling getText() on potentially huge
      // representations
      if (MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON.equals(variant.getMediaType(), true)
          || MediaType.APPLICATION_XML.equals(variant.getMediaType(), true)
          || MediaType.TEXT_HTML.equals(variant.getMediaType(), true)) {
        String text =
            (variant instanceof Representation) ? ((Representation) variant).getText() : "";

        XStream xstream;
        if (MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON.equals(variant.getMediaType(), true)
            || MediaType.TEXT_HTML.equals(variant.getMediaType(), true)) {
          xstream =
              (XStream)
                  getContext().getAttributes().get(PlexusRestletApplicationBridge.JSON_XSTREAM);
        } else if (MediaType.APPLICATION_XML.equals(variant.getMediaType(), true)) {
          xstream =
              (XStream)
                  getContext().getAttributes().get(PlexusRestletApplicationBridge.XML_XSTREAM);
        } else {
          return null;
        }

        if (text != null) {
          CharacterSet charset = variant.getCharacterSet();
          if (charset == null) {
            charset = CharacterSet.ISO_8859_1;
          }
          if (!CharacterSet.UTF_8.equals(charset)) {
            // must fix text encoding NXCM-2494
            text = new String(new String(text.getBytes(), "UTF-8").getBytes(charset.getName()));
          }
        }

        representation = new XStreamRepresentation(xstream, text, variant.getMediaType());
        return representation;
      } else {
        return null;
      }
    } catch (IOException e) {
      throw new ResourceException(
          Status.SERVER_ERROR_INTERNAL, "Cannot get the representation!", e);
    }
  }
  public boolean write(final Object result, final Response response) throws ResourceException {
    MediaType type = getVariant(response.getRequest(), ENGLISH, supportedMediaTypes).getMediaType();
    if (MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON.equals(type)) {
      if (result instanceof String || result instanceof Number || result instanceof Boolean) {
        StringRepresentation representation =
            new StringRepresentation(result.toString(), MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);

        response.setEntity(representation);

        return true;
      }
    }

    return false;
  }