Hi Santiago
Thanks, this is exactly what I was hoping to get a confirmation for :-)
Thanks all
Sergey
On 14/04/15 16:05, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
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>> On Apr 14, 2015, at 4:17 PM, Sergey Beryozkin <sberyozkin_at_talend.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Marek
>>
>> Sorry for the confusion.
>> Let me try it again :-), given the following code,
>>
>> @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
>> @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED)
>> public String post(@Context HttpServletRequest request) {
>> String[] values = request.getParameterValues("a");
>> }
>>
>> whose responsibility it is to ensure the above code returns an "b,c" array ?
>> That of the underlying Servlet container which makes HttpServletRequest available to the JAX-RS runtime ? Or of the actual JAX-RS runtime ?
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> JAX-RS should only be responsible for injecting the type; after that, it is a Servlet type that should be the responsibility of the underlying Servlet container.
>
> — Santiago
>
>>
>> I'm hoping that the JAX-RS runtime should not be concerned about...
>>
>> Thanks, Sergey
>>
>> On 14/04/15 12:06, Marek Potociar wrote:
>>> Hi Sergey,
>>>
>>> Unless I missed something out, this seems to me like a question you may
>>> want to raise at Servlet EG forums. The use of JAX-RS does not seem
>>> relevant for the use case you are asking about - or at least I’m not
>>> seeing the connection. Perhaps you may want to update the example to
>>> demonstrate the JAX-RS related problem that you see?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Marek
>>>
>>>> On 14 Apr 2015, at 18:12, Sergey Beryozkin <sberyozkin_at_talend.com
>>>> <mailto:sberyozkin_at_talend.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Santiago,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the feedback,
>>>> On 14/04/15 09:42, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
>>>>> Hi Sergey,
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> POST
>>>>>> a=b&a=c
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
>>>>>> @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED)
>>>>>> public String post(@Context HttpServletRequest request) {
>>>>>>
>>>>>> String[] values = request.getParameterValues("a");
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> should the above code return a "b,c" array ?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think so.
>>>>>
>>>> Right...
>>>>
>>>>>> My answer is JAX-RS does not require it. Can someone clarify please ?
>>>>>
>>>>> You mean because HttpServletRequest is a Servlet type?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Only partially, I thought that this was very specific to Servlet API,
>>>> the fact that a form payload ends up 'parameterized' in
>>>> HttpServletRequest.
>>>>
>>>> JAX-RS MessageBodyReader is only used if a method signature contains a
>>>> parameter representing a message body.
>>>>
>>>> So unless the above code works only if the underlying container does
>>>> some magic then the JAX-RS runtime needs to do a specific 'if' in its
>>>> code:
>>>>
>>>> If a resource method has no parameter representing a body but the
>>>> service class has HttpServletContext injected somewhere (in a field or
>>>> as a parameter), and Consumes is Form, then ensure a form payload
>>>> processing code is utilized.
>>>>
>>>> And I wonder, given that JAX-RS supports Form, FormParam,
>>>> MultipartMap, does it really need to go out of its usual way and
>>>> support this Servlet API specific (I'd say - legacy) interaction
>>>> pattern where form parameters are treated as HttpServletRequest
>>>> parameters...
>>>>
>>>> Does it work with RI :-) ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. Sergey
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> — Santiago
>>>
>>
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