Assuming my resource class is implemented "cleanly", i.e. it has
post, put, delete and get methods (that map appropriately), this
would mean I'd have to add another post method (like the one below)
that calls delete(), and I'd have to do that for every resource. But
in general, I will make the decision to use this workaround for my
complete web app, not for each and every resource class. Can this be
done in a generic way?
I'm not at all sure I like this, but how about this, inspired by [1]:
@HttpMethod(DELETE) @HttpMethodOverride("X-HTTP-Method-Override",
PUT) void delete() {...}
?
Stefan
[1]
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/basics.html#Updating-an-entry
On Apr 26, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Marc Hadley wrote:
> On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Stefan Tilkov wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure there are strong opinions on this - just checking:
>> do we want to support some way to do a pseudo-PUT and DELETE
>> through POST?
>> Even if we don't want to explicitly encourage it, do we want
>> enable the API's users to do this? If so, how?
>>
> I think we already allow it using a variety of means but we don't
> make it transparent. E.g. one could use a header or matrix URI
> param to hold the put|delete method name and extract those in the
> method:
>
> @HttpMethod(POST)
> String doMethod(@HeaderParam("method") String method) {...}
>
> Is that good enough or do folks want something more automated ?
>
> Marc.
>
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> Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
> CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.
>
>