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[jsr339-experts] Re: [jax-rs-spec users] Re: link templates?

From: Santiago Pericas-Geertsen <Santiago.PericasGeertsen_at_oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:00:20 -0400

On Jul 2, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Bill Burke wrote:

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> On 7/2/12 5:52 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>
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>> 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.
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> 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.

 Did you see Link.Builder.build(Object... values)? Isn't that what you're asking for?

-- Santiago