On Feb 29, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
> I know we discussed this before, but, another thing MessageReader/
> Writer's need is access to the GenericType of the thing being
> (un)marshalled.
>
Its there in trunk but I haven't updated the online javadoc yet:
https://jsr311.dev.java.net/source/browse/jsr311/trunk/src/jsr311-api/src/javax/ws/rs/ext/MessageBodyReader.java?rev=214&view=markup
Marc.
> Bill Burke wrote:
>> I don't know if jax-rs plans to add support for multipart (form-
>> data, mixed, etc...) (I wish we would figure out an abstraction),
>> but currently I don't see a way of supporting it portably in the
>> current model.
>> The main reason is that there is no way of looking up providers by
>> mediaType and class. There used to be a createMessageBodyReader/
>> Writer. I wish we could bring that back. That way, a mulitpart
>> @Provider could look up and call marshalling based on this. i.e.
>> public interface MultipartMixed {
>> public void writeObject(MediaType type, Object obj);
>> }
>> or
>> @ProduceMime("multipart/mixed")
>> List<String> get() { ... }
>> @Provider will have a match based on multipart, Collection as a
>> type. It iterates through the collection and finds a
>> MessageBodyReader or Writer. Creates its own header/outputstream
>> objects, calls the reader/writer, returns.
>> or
>> @ProduceMime("multipart/form-data")
>> MyForm
>> get()
>
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