http://java.net/jira/browse/JAX_RS_SPEC-175
On 2/22/12 12:11 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
> I assume that PreMatchRequestFilter exist to allow you do do things like
> extract Accept information from a URI like:
>
> http://.../foo/bar.txt
>
> And change its matching path to;
>
> http://.../foo/bar
>
> correct? How would you do something like this? There's a big
> difference between a path you're gonna match against and the absolute
> URI and the base URI. RequestBuilder has redirect methods, but the
> problem is that the filter has no way of getting at UriInfo information.
> Plus another side effect is that a call to the redirect() method on the
> server side really messes up the information in UriInfo. Like how can
> you recalculate the BaseURI, etc. consistently?
>
> Am I making any sense?
>
> Maybe there should be a redirectPath() method on RequestBuilder? On the
> client side, this would just change the URI path. On the server side,
> this would only change the path the value of UriInfo.getPath() i.e. the
> path relative to the baseURI.
>
> Also maybe we should think about not allowing a change to the URI, but
> instead just a change in the path? So remove redirect() methods from
> RequestBuilder and change them to just one:
>
> path(String path);
>
>
> Client side, this method would change the URI path. Server side, just
> the relative path to BaseURI.
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