Speaking for my project, i would be a great thing. I would be able to
use only jersey for integration, AJAX and forms, reducing a lot of
clutter. But it is also a lot of work, specially when involving
master-detail beans, indexed properties, etc.
Where to start? is it possible to do this in a contrib lib, like
jersey-multipart?
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Kevin Duffey <andjarnic_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kind of jumping in half way here.. but I actually recommended someone to use
> Jersey over other MVC frameworks to build both a MVC and REST capable web
> app. I like how it's possible to build MVC using Jersey and meanwhile
> support REST too. Frankly, for my own stuff.. this is how I will proceed
> from now on.
>
> That said, I like the idea of allowing beans populated from form data. I
> take it Jersey will have to automatically determine that if something like:
>
> public Response handleFormData(User user){
> }
>
> where User is NOT a JAXB object..but instead an actual bean... Jersey can
> determine this correct? I didn't dig deep.. but I thought JAXB objects have
> various @XmlType annotations in it.. where as a regular bean would have
> nothing of the sort.. .maybe that would make it easy enough for Jersey to
> determine it's not a JAXB class. Just a thought... but I would see this as a
> great addition to allow for a bit more MVC like framework out of Jersey.
> However... is that starting to take Jersey into a direction of being more
> than a REST framework... even though it could be... is it trying to be too
> much? For me.. no.. but I could see how many may argue that Jersey is
> becoming a bloated framework and not sticking to its core REST capabilities.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
> To: users_at_jersey.dev.java.net
> Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 2:16:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [Jersey] Struts-like population of form beans
>
> Hi Jeff,
> Apologies i forgot to reply on the wiki.
> We don't support form beans yet, just @FormParam on the parameters of a
> resource method.
> I think it is a good idea, for URL encoded or in general for multipart
> whether it be for form-data or other multi-parts, and it would be good to be
> part of Jersey. For multipart bean support we build upon Craig's API. It
> would be good to share bean processing functionality between URL-based and
> multi-part based beans.
> Paul.
> On Nov 4, 2008, at 1:22 AM, Robertson, Jeff wrote:
>
> Since we have Craig at our disposal here, I figure I'll bring this up.
>
> Before I subscribed to the mailing list, I posted this on the wiki:
>
> http://wikis.sun.com/display/Jersey/getting+form+data+as+a+populated+javabean
>
> (Note: that code compiled against 0.9. Will not compile with 1.0)
>
> Does anyone thing this is something that should be in Jersey and/or JAX-RS?
> Not my implementation, which I worked on for less than an hour before
> wikifying it, but the general idea?
>
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