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[jax-rs-spec users] [jsr339-experts] Re: Can UriInfo be visible on the client side ?

From: Marek Potociar <marek.potociar_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:23:08 +0100

On 12/21/2011 12:17 PM, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
> On 20/12/11 16:02, Marek Potociar wrote:
>> Might make sense. Please, elaborate on the concrete proposal including
>> the potential use cases you see.
>
> I believe the methods you had removed from Request were among other things, meant to help the client filters to check
> what the current URI is and such;
> I proposed to get those methods 'collapsed' into a reference to UriInfo but UriInfo has some methods which only make
> sense on the server-side.
> So this proposal is not a new one, but rather is an attempt to see if it makes sense to get Request providing a
> reference to request URI but also to minimize the duplication by getting UriInfo split

FYI, The request URI is kept in the Request interface. Please check the latest sources.

Marek

>
> I'm not sure now if it's a good idea, once more interface; but I believe you also added an injectable Uri interface - so
> may be that can become a super interface for UriInfo, not really sure
> Sergey
>
>
>> All other EG members, please
>> participate any client-side use cases that would support this change.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marek
>>
>> On Tue 20 Dec 2011 03:44:56 PM CET, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
>>>>> http://java.net/jira/browse/JAX_RS_SPEC-154
>>>>
>>>> Agreed
>>>
>>> I'm having another thought about it, though do agree with the resolution.
>>> The purpose of this email is to explore the options around refactoring UriInfo. Most of UriInfo's methods can be
>>> generally useful on both sides, so the original methods Marek added to Request could've been useful on the client side.
>>>
>>> What do you think about extracting some commonly useful methods to UriInfo superintertface, such as RequestURI for
>>> example ?
>>> UriInfo extends RequestURI ?
>