Hi Paul, apologies for not replying I seemed to have missed your reply. I would be interested in seeing your solution as I always keen to learn new ideas...
Thanks
John
On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:10 AM, John Lister wrote:
> Hi John,
> The basic way is for the filter to add a property to ContainerRequest.
> Then the resource class can inject HttpConttext and the property can
> be retrieved from that (i realize that is a little confusing, it is
> the way the API evolved with filters being designed after HttpContext
> was designed).
>
> Another way is to create your own InjectableProvider that extracts an
> object out of the request properties. In fact one could write such a
> general provider.
>
> So the filter adds an name/value to the request properties and the
> injectable provider extracts that out e.g.:
>
> @RequestProperty("name") MyObject o;
>
> I can send more details if required.
>
> Paul.
>
> On Mar 25, 2010, at 11:24 PM, John Lister wrote:
>
> > I may have solved this, I decided to read the JAX-RS specs to see
> > what was injectable and discovered that I should be injecting the
> > Request interface - I'd tried using the ContainerRequest class...
> > Although this still seems a little cludgy, am I on the right track
> > or is there a much simpler solution?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > John
> >
> > >Hi, this seems an obvious thing but I can't seem to find an answer.
> > What is the best/recommended way (if at all) of passing data from a
> > >container/resource filter back to the resource object after the
> > filter completes..
> >
> > >For example I have a container filter that does some checks after
> > which I'd like to make the results available in the resource object,
> > but I
> > >can't find a simple way to do it.
> >
> >
> > >At first I thought I could add a property to the ContainerRequest
> > object passed to my filter method, but I can't seem to find a way to
> > get
> > >access to this (either directly or via something else) in my GET
> > function for example within the resource object.
> >
> >
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