On Nov 11, 2011, at 7:08 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
> What is the usecase for a pre-match filter? It just seems there's very little you can do before you know what resource(class/method) the http request is bound to.
Essentially anything that updates the input to the matching algorithm. The canonical example is a filter that overrides the HTTP method, e.g. using X-HTTP-Method-Override (quite popular given that a lot of routers drop non-GET/POST requests).
-- Santiago
>
> On 11/8/11 11:52 AM, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
>> Hello Experts,
>>
>> A new proposal to support pre-match filters is ready for review [1]. The
>> wiki includes a couple of other minor changes to simplify the API.
>> Namely, making @GlobalBinding the default (and dropping it) as well as a
>> new injectable type ResourceInfo.
>>
>> -- Santiago
>>
>> [1] http://java.net/projects/jax-rs-spec/pages/PreMatchingFilters
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