On Nov 4, 2007, at 1:25 AM, Marc Hadley wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Stefan Tilkov wrote:
>>
>> 1. There is no way to implement EntityProvider<T> multiple times
>> (for different values of T) within a single class. So if I have a
>> set of related classes I'd like to map e.g. to a single XML
>> vocabulary, I have to create as many EntityProviders as I have
>> classes. Right?
>>
> No, you can implement EntityProvider<Object> and use the
> supports(Class<?>) method to reject types the provider doesn't
> support.
>
But then I'd have a single readFrom and writeTo method, typed with
Object?
>> 2. There is no way to have two different EntityProviders for the
>> same class (e.g. for different MIME types), which means one has to
>> resort to if-else-if-chains on
>> the mediaType parameter. Correct?
>>
> No, you can use @ProduceMime and @ConsumeMime on the provider class
> to declare the media types that it supports. The JSR 311 runtime
> will only call providers that support the appropriate media type.
>
OK; this is the way I expected it to work, but couldn't get it to work
with Jersey 0.4 (but that might be a usage error on my side).
Thanks,
Stefan
> Marc.
>
>>
>
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