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[jsr339-experts] Re: [jax-rs-spec users] Re: HEADS-UP: Revise MBR selection mechanism?

From: Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 12:38:49 -0400

On 5/24/12 12:28 PM, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
> I was trying to reason about it in the message you replied originally.
> So yes, on one hand it sounds rather akward. On the other hand it does
> not realistic that it has to be done often in real applications and as
> show with your example such cases are easily managed by the user
> asserting the control as opposed to relying on the assumptions.
>
> The proposed update looks OK to me for addressing a case without a
> custom JSONInputStreamReader.
>
> I'd like to understand what happens in case of the custom provider
> aserting in its readFrom() that it can support both Document &
> DOMSource, where for example we also have a built in MBR<Document>
>
> Don't get me wrong please. IMHO we need to think a lot before making a
> decision which can lead to a matching *custom* provider being not
> preferred to a built in one.
>

The question I have is the Java type primary key for the match, an
*exact* match? Or do subtypes come into play?

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