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[jsr339-experts] Re: link templates?

From: Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:56:26 -0400

On 7/2/12 5:52 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
>
>
> On 7/2/12 5:47 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 2012-07-02 23:37, Bill Burke wrote:
>>> One thing I noticed about JAX-RS 2.0 Link class is that it can't support
>>> templates. I know the original link header draft had a Link-Template
>>> header, but I couldn't find any information beyond the original draft.
>>> Anybody know what the deal is with templates?
>>
>> Template support was not included. According to the change history (see
>> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-nottingham-http-link-header-10.html#rfc.section.E>)
>>
>> it was removed early; probably because URI templates were not ready; and
>> it introduced complexity that wasn't really needed.
>>
>
> This is an issue for Resteasy as our old link header support allowed
> templates. I know a lot of our users use the templating feature of our
> Link header parser/object representation.
>

An additional side-effect is that Link.fromResourceMethod() isn't going
to be very useful either as many resource classes and/or methods will be
templated.

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Bill Burke
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