Marc Hadley wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>
>> This does not support extensions very easily. How about a pluggable
>> InjectionProvider mechanism?
>>
>> @InjectionPlugin
>> public @interface CookieParam {
>> String value();
>> }
>>
>>
>> @InjectionProvider(CookieParam.class)
>> public class CookieInjectionProvider {
>>
>> @Injector
>> Object extractCookie(@Metadata CookieParam metadata, @HttpContext
>> HttpHeaders headers) {
>> String cookieName = metadata.value();
>>
>> Cookie cookie = ...; // find cookie from HttpHeaders by cookieName
>> return cookie.getValue();
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>> The InjectionProvider allows you to inject anything from the HTTP
>> Request like you would a regular JAX-RS method. Additionally a
>> @Metadata annotation is provided so that the provider can get access
>> to the injection annotation instance you used in your application code.
>>
>> So, you could do this with all injectors except maybe @HttpContext as
>> you would need basic/core access to the request.
>>
> Seems a bit overkill, I think I'd prefer to add additional specific
> annotations like @CookieParam for now.
>
Ok :)
So you are approving @CookieParam?
Thanks,
Bill
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