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[jax-rs-spec users] Re: Request for comments: Injecting _at_XxxParam into entity providers

From: Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 16:44:23 -0500

Or, you could just inject and use UriInfo. Simpler.

On 2/5/2016 11:55 AM, Markus KARG wrote:
>
> As an alternative, we could grant MessageBodyWriter and resource
> classes static access to a shared property map (just like interceptors
> share a properties map). That way, a resource could get injected the
> @XxxParam instance, then put it into the map, and the MBW could look
> it up from there. That would be fine, too.
>
> *From:*Bill Burke [mailto:bburke_at_redhat.com]
> *Sent:* Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2016 20:31
> *To:* jsr370-experts_at_jax-rs-spec.java.net
> *Subject:* Re: Request for comments: Injecting @XxxParam into entity
> providers
>
> 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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> Bill Burke
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