Hi Marc,
this is of course a possible solution. But isn't comma separation of a
list of resources (like /products/1,2,3) somehow common (in the REST
world)?
Cheers,
Martin
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 09:50 -0400, Marc Hadley wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2008, at 4:22 AM, Martin Grotzke wrote:
> >
> > thanx for your feedback! Would it be easier if I used s.th.
> > like /products/123,234,345?
> >
> Easiest would be something like
>
> /products?p=123&p=234&p=345
>
> then you could use
>
> UriInfo.getQueryParameters.get("p")
>
> which returns a List<String> with values {"123","234","345"}
>
> > Shouldn't such a basic concept of REST be supported a little bit
> > better
> > - with a higher level of abstraction? If I would have to bother with
> > PathSegements it would be more intuitive to use comma, and simply do a
> > string.split. But this doesn't seem to be what it should be...
> >
> If you used commas then you could define your own type:
>
> public class ProductList<String> extends ArrayList<String> {
> public ProductList(String commaSeparatedList) {
> // do the string split and add elements
> }
> }
>
> Then you can write
>
> @Path("products/{ids}")
> public class ProductListResource {
> @GET
> public XXX get(@PathParam("ids") ProductList<String> list) {...}
> }
>
>
> > So is this an outstanding issue of the spec?
> >
> I don't think so, the spec already supports the ability to add types
> to support a variety of URI styles.
>
> Marc.
>
>
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 17:03 -0400, Marc Hadley wrote:
> >> On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Martin Grotzke wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I want to allow the user to retrieve a list of specified products
> >>> under
> >>> a URL like this: /products/123;234;345
> >>>
> >>> How is this possible with jersey?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Semicolon is used to mark the start of matrix parameters in a URI
> >> path
> >> segment. Try something like:
> >>
> >> @Path("/products/{id}")
> >> public class ProductList {
> >>
> >> @Context
> >> UriInfo uri;
> >>
> >> @GET
> >> public XXX get(@PathParam("id") String id) {
> >> // id contains the first product (123 above)
> >> List<PathSegment> segs = uri.getPathSegments();
> >> PathSegment p = segs.get(segs.size()-1);
> >> Set<String> ids = p.getMatrixParams().keySet();
> >> // ids contains the rest of the ids (234, 345 above)
> >> return ...
> >> }
> >>
> >> Marc.
> >>
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> >> Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
> >> CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.
> >>
> >>
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