On Mar 11, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Martin Grotzke wrote:
>
> 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)?
>
There's nothing wrong with it but its not a convention either AFAIK.
Marc.
>
> 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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