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Re: JSR311: The best practice to return primitive types from a RESTful service?

From: Roy T. Fielding <roy.fielding_at_day.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:05:34 -0800

On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:00 AM, Liu, Jervis wrote:
> I think we do need to support " int someMethod ()", this make it a
> lot easier when people migrating their existing code to JSR-311.
> For example, I may have following method in my POJO, it is just a
> matter of adding extra JSR-311 annotations then I can expose this
> POJO as a RESTful service.
>
> int getEmployeeAge(String employeeName) {
> ...
> }

No, that would be encouraging folks to migrate one crappy design
to another -- it has nothing to do with being RESTful. There is no
way to "migrate" a POJO design to a RESTful design without completely
redesigning the service. That is, in fact, the entire point -- design
the service so that it matches the reality of network-based applications
instead of doing RPC in yet another inefficient syntax.

....Roy