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[jsr339-experts] Re: Request/Response.getEntity(...) and Request/ResponseBuilder.entity(...) should take annotations array argument

From: Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:21:36 -0500

On 1/5/12 3:04 PM, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
> On 05/01/12 16:46, Bill Burke wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 1/5/12 3:51 AM, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
>>> On 03/01/12 12:35, Marek Potociar wrote:
>>>> FYI: http://java.net/jira/browse/JAX_RS_SPEC-160
>>>>
>>>> The proposal is to add new method overloads to fix the issue.
>>>
>>> Looks reasonable, however, I'm wondering, how do you expect the calling
>>> code to obtain these annotations ?
>>
>> How? Reflection. I have a similar issue with generic type information
>> where currently it is impossible to pass it in manually.
>>
> Sure, what I meant was that the reflection info is not quite available
> on the client side (where I'd say use Response.getEntity(...)), may be I
> am missing something
>

You may be building a request based on reflection info.

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