MBW, MBR, Interceptors, and Filters are all singletons. I have a ton of
implementations of these classses that do initialization at boot time.
@XXXParam annotations would require field injection which just would not
work with singletons.
So -1 unless you can provide a @Singleton annotation.
On 2/4/2016 2:01 PM, Markus KARG wrote:
>
> Experts,
>
> I'd like to discuss an idea with you. I don't actually propose to do
> this change in JAX-RS 2.1, but depending on the outcome of our
> discussion it might make sense to prepare our products for such an API
> change to be part of JAX-RS 2.2 or 3.0.
>
> What I like you to comment on is that I really miss using @XxxParam in
> entity providers.
>
> Example: Today I wrote a MessageBodyWrite which needs to know the
> value of a matrix param. I solved it by @Context UriParam and uses a
> rather lengthy chain of API calls to finally get it. How much smarter
> the solution would like if I just could use @MatrixParam instead!
>
> So I really would love to get rid of the restriction that @XxxParam
> works with resource class only, but in fact would like to allow its
> use on entity providers also.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -Markus
>
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