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Re: [Jersey] Does JAX-RS support X-HTTP-Method-Override?

From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:39:36 +0200

On Oct 7, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Gili wrote:

>
>
> Thank you! :)
>
> FYI: The Javadoc for
> com
> .sun.jersey.api.core.ResourceConfig.PROPERTY_CONTAINER_REQUEST_FILTERS
> (and others) renders wrong. It reads
> "List&ltContainerRequestFilter&gt"
> instead of "List<ContainerRequestFilter>".
>

Thanks, fixed.
Paul.

> Gili
>
>
> Paul Sandoz wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Oct 7, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Gili wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> See the first answer at
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/153420/is-it-feasible-to-create-a-rest-client-with-flex
>>>
>>> Ideally I'd want it to handle this header seamlessly so @DELETE gets
>>> called
>>> even if the client actually sent a POST with X-HTTP-Method-
>>> Override="DELETE"
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but it is not enabled by default. You can enable it by adding
>> the
>> following to the web.xml:
>>
>> <init-param>
>> <param-name>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerRequestFilters</
>> param-name>
>> <param-
>> value>com.sun.jersey.api.container.filter.PostReplaceFilter</
>> param-value>
>> </init-param>
>>
>> See JavaDoc of:
>>
>> com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerRequestFilter
>> com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponseFilter
>> ResourceConfig.PROPERTY_CONTAINER_REQUEST_FILTERS
>> ResourceConfig.PROPERTY_CONTAINER_RESPONSE_FILTERS
>>
>> for more details.
>>
>>
>>> On a related note, don't we lose most of the power of REST when
>>> doing this?
>>> :) I mean, we're tunneling through HTTP again. Proxies lose the
>>> ability to
>>> cache, etc.
>>>
>>
>> I don't think you loose a lot in terms of caching. Essentially
>> proxies
>> observe a contraction of the uniform interface. The RESTful style is
>> still there, URIs, hyper-media, request-response, statelessness etc.
>> It is one of those annoying pragmatic solutions to get around, what
>> appears to be, an arbitrary technical limitation.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
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