On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 13:49 -0400, Marc Hadley wrote:
> 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.
I read this in "RESTful Web Services" (Richardson, Ruby) and thought
this would be s.th. lots of people would agree on. Is there some
document that describes ("defines") what is RESTful that "most" people
agree about (besides Fieldings thesis)?
To have a solution for now I would use th query param solution proposed
by you...
Thanx && cheers,
Martin
>
> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
> >>>> CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.
> >>>>
> >>>>
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