> On Jan 16, 2015, at 5:29 PM, Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com> wrote:
>
> IMO, many of us continue to think of JAX-RS as Servlet.nextgen rather than a REST framework. Spec leads should really decide the direction here.
Personally, I don’t see these two views as mutually exclusive for JAX-RS. Especially when there often isn’t universal agreement on certain APIs being truly RESTful or not. Ultimately, it comes down to solving real-world problems, and in that context, I can see the benefit of @DefaultMethod.
— Santiago
>
> On 1/16/2015 5:11 PM, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
>> Ha-Ha :-)
>>
>> The difference is JAX-RS has a richer context support. The JAX-RS
>> filters would still be there.
>> Something like @DefaultMethod, as Markus suggested, or something
>> similar, can work in principle.
>> I guess it is a weak case so far, I'll see how it goes in my current
>> project, perhaps some more ideas may arise...
>>
>> Sergey
>> On 16/01/15 19:30, Bill Burke wrote:
>>> Isn't there some specification in Java EE that allows you to do this for
>>> HTTP? I'm pretty sure Java EE has a non-annotated api for Java EE.
>>> Anybody know what it is? ;)
>>>
>>> On 1/16/2015 11:10 AM, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Happy New Year,
>>>>
>>>> I've seen a number of times users asking how to have a dynamic JAX-RS
>>>> service which would support various HTTP methods but without having to
>>>> annotate. Something like JAX-WS Provider [1].
>>>>
>>>> How about introducing javax.ws.rs.ServiceProvider interface:
>>>>
>>>> interface ServiceProvider {
>>>> Response invoke(InputStream is);
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> The implementation can inject a JAX-RS Request context and get an HTTP
>>>> verb name. UriInfo context will provide all the info about the request
>>>> URI including path and query parameters, HttpHeaders - about headers.
>>>> The injected Providers interface will help to read the stream into some
>>>> concrete object for Post/Put requests if needed.
>>>>
>>>> If a given object implements ServiceProvider then the JAX-RS
>>>> implementation will accept it as a service bean. @Path is defaulted to
>>>> "" if no @Path is available.
>>>>
>>>> I think it can be introduced into a spec (API, text) fairly easy but I'm
>>>> not expecting this proposal accepted easily too.
>>>>
>>>> Any comments ?
>>>>
>>>> Sergey
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/xml/ws/Provider.html
>>>
>>
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