Hi Gili,
On Mar 16, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Gili wrote:
> If a user invokes HTTP PUT with a body that contains URIs, how should I
> translate those URIs back to resource identifiers? Am I expected to hit the
> URI, examine the body in order to figure out the resource identity or should
> I parse the URI to an ID somehow? What's the best practice?
You can use UriTemplate (see
http://jersey.java.net/nonav/apidocs/1.5/jersey/com/sun/jersey/api/uri/UriTemplate.html).
For example, like this:
// create URI template object for a given template
UriTemplate ut = new UriTemplate("
http://localhost:8080/context/jersey/books/{id}/page/{pageNum}");
// this hashmap will be populated with param name->value mapping after the URI is matched
HashMap<String, String> m = new HashMap<String, String>();
// match the URI passed in the first parameter, populate the map in the second parameter with params and values
ut.match("
http://localhost:8080/context/jersey/books/20/page/10", m);
// extract book ID from the URI
int bookId = m.get("id");
Is that good enough for what you need?
Martin