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[jax-rs-spec users] [jsr339-experts] Re: type information within Entity class

From: Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:12:58 -0500

Actually, strike this. GenericEntity could be used. Sorry...

156 is still a valid issue though.

On 1/23/12 9:30 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
> This is similar to
>
> http://java.net/jira/browse/JAX_RS_SPEC-156
>
> I want to add type information to the Entity class. There will be cases
> where developers are building an Entity class based on a generic
> java.lang.Object and type information extracted from reflection calls,
> so I propose adding an additional static method to Entity class:
>
> public static Entity entity(Object entity, Class<?> type, Type
> genericType, MediaType mediaType);
>
> And additional methods to Entity class:
>
> Class<?> getType() {...}
> Type getGenericType() {...}
>
> FYI, I'd add an issue to Jira, but it seems to be down ATM. Please
> remind me if I don't!
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>

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