On Oct 18, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
> Jan,
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> You often have a different rel value for each resource method in a resource class (for example one with @GET and another with @PUT).
Erm - what do you mean? I choose the rel value when I construct the link. It has nothing to do whatsoever with the target resource.
Or am I misreading you?
> The use of
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> Link.Builder.fromResourceMethod(Class<?> resource, String method, String rel)
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> does imply that the method must have an @Path annotation on it, so the @Path of the resource class will be used. Does this answer your questions?
Sort of, but not really. I do not want to be forced to have @Path on my methods to use Link support. I prefer the annotation on the class only.
Should I not get a chance to choose?
Jan
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> -- Santiago
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> On Oct 17, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Jan Algermissen wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> what about adding
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>> fromResource(Class<?> resource, String rel)
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>> to Link?
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>> It is IMHO not uncommon to have resource classes without sub resource methods.
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>> As it stands, there seems to be no way to use Link.fromXX to 'point' to such resource classes?
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>> Is that intentional? By accident? or am I missing something?
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>> Jan
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