Hi Noah,
@javax.ws.rs.DefaultValue annotation comes from JAX-RS.
We can not do much in Jersey about this.
You might want to ask for an improvement for this area at [1],
although i am not sure what can be done there given how annotation
members are restricted in Java (compile-type constants, only limited
number of types allowed).
~Jakub
[1]
http://java.net/projects/jax-rs-spec/
On 06/29/2011 02:19 AM, NBW wrote:
> Tonight I was trying to set a @DefaultValue for a @QueryParam and I wanted to use an enum, eg. Status.COMPLETE. The enum Status is set as the type of the QueryParam. I tried something like this:
>
> ...(@DefaultValue(Status.COMPLETE) @QueryParam("status") Status status) {
>
> The first problem was it insisted the @Default value be a String. So I said OK, and changed it to:
>
> ...(@DefaultValue(Status.COMPLETE.toString()) @QueryParam("status") Status status) {
>
> Next is complained that the value had to be a constant. Well in the case of the enum I thought that toString() is effectively a constant value. So there's that issue, but I would really like to simply be able to use an enum value when the type of the QueryParam is an enum which is what I originally tried going with in the first example above.
>
> Am I perhaps missing something or is this the current state of things in this regard and I have to work around it with something like this where I explicitly set the Default value to the string corresponding to the enum value I want to be default:
>
> ...(@DefaultValue("COMPLETE") @QueryParam("status") Status status) {
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Noah
>
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