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[jax-rs-spec users] Re: HTTP PATCH on the client

From: Alessio Soldano <asoldano_at_redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:32:18 +0200

RESTEasy uses Apache HttpClient

Cheers
Alessio

Il 13/04/2017 16:13, Pavel Bucek ha scritto:
> Dear experts,
>
> as you might know, we recently introduced support for @PATCH and
> corresponding methods in the Client part of the API.
>
> There is one catch - HttpUrlConnection doesn't support making PATCH
> requests.
>
> Its known JDK issue and it won't be fixed. HttpUrlConnection was
> supposed to be replaced by HttpClient in Java SE 9, but .. that won't
> happen and it wouldn't fix our issue, since JAX-RS 2.1 implementation
> is stuck on Java SE 8 for now.
>
> That doesn't mean PATCH on the client cannot be implemented, the only
> issue is that the implementation would need to use something else than
> HttpUrlConnection, implying that there must be some other HTTP (client
> side) framework involved, or it could be re-implemented using standard
> Java networking API.
>
> Jersey already has some means how to overcome that limitation, but by
> default we still do use HttpUrlConnection.
>
> Sergey, what about CXF? Do you use HttpUrlConnection on the client side?
>
> Does anyone else know how is this handled in other implementations?
>
> We still could support @PATCH on the server side without having it on
> the client, so dropping that part is certainly an option, but we'd
> like to hear your thoughts.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Pavel
>