On Apr 9, 2008, at 6:37 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>
> What should the jax-rs runtime match a MEssageBodyWriter to the
> return entity to?
>
> The object's class? or the method return type?
>
You should use the object's class, otherwise Response.getEntity isn't
so useful since that is always Object...
Marc.
> I have a user that wants to match based on the returned object's
> class as his method return a base interface that won't match the
> desired provider.
>
>
> So, I guess match based on the entity's concrete class and the
> method generic type?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
>
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