On Jun 10, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Martin Grotzke wrote:
>
> I would suggest to first support the most common use case - IMHO
> this is
> a concrete class that is returned from a sub-resource locator without
> thinking about possibly existing subclasses. This would make lots of
> users happy.
+1
Marc.
>
>>
>> E.g. the subresource locator might have a declared return type of
>> UserResource but actually return a SuperUserResource (extends
>> UserResource) that has extra capabilities.
>>
>> Marc.
>>
>>> To me it looks like this:
>>> - we have a root resource UsersResource with @Path("/users")
>>> - this has a sub-resource locator "UsersResource.getUser" with
>>> @Path("{username}") that returns a UserResource
>>> - The UserResource has the path "{username}" as context and several
>>> resource methods (UserResource.getUser, UserResource.updateUser
>>> etc.), sub-resource methods and sub-resource locators.
>>>
>>> So the UserResource has the context path "/users/{username}" and all
>>> resource methods, sub-resource methods and sub-resource locators of
>>> the
>>> UserResource are related to this path.
>>>
>>> I'd say we have all information that we need.
>>>
>>> Why do we not know, what concrete resource classes are returned
>>> from a
>>> sub-resource locator? UserResource is the return type of the
>>> sub-resource locator and seems very concrete to me :)
>>>
>>> What is the actual problem then? Probably I'm missing s.th. :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Marc.
>>>>
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