+1 here as well.
An inner class is only so awkward and I can certainly live with that.
Ryan-
On 3/12/08, Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley_at_sun.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>
> > i'd rather have both. Again, it just seems very awkward to have to
> > write an inner class or a separate class just to do streaming. So
> > far, JAX-RS has been pretty elegant.
> >
>
> I think the solution described below is more elegant than the previous
> one, it preserves the simple model where you return the HTTP response
> from a resource method and does away with a bunch of additional rules
> like requiring a void return when using the injected output stream
> accessor type. The other solution introduces a completely new paradigm
> for creating a response.
>
>
> Marc.
>
>
>
>
> > Marc Hadley wrote:
> >> Not wishing to stifle an interesting debate but I'd like to move
> >> towards a conclusion ;-). Can we close this issue with the proposal
> >> below ? It gets Bill an OutputStream that can be used without
> >> having to implement a MessageBodyWriter while not tying up a
> >> service thread as desired by Jerome and Stephan. Seems like a
> >> reasonable compromise to me.
> >> Marc.
> >> On Mar 10, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Marc Hadley wrote:
> >>>
> >>> public interface StreamedOutput {
> >>> void write(OutputStream o);
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Which can be returned when you want to do streaming - the spec
> >>> would require implementations to support this type.
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