On Jun 9, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Stephan Koops wrote:
>>> IMO JAX-RS should support @FormParam.
>> Unless anyone shouts loudly I'm going to add this annotation. It
>> will have the same targets as @QueryParam and will be usable with
>> the same Java types.
> Cool. Also the restrictions for the entity types sounds good to me.
> Do we want to provide the same support for "multipart/form-
> data" (the HTML <form>)?
I don't know. The contents of multipart/form-data might not be
suitable for putting in a String. We don't currently require support
for entities of type MultivaluedMap<String,String> and that media type.
>
>> I'm also debating whether to add a method:
>>
>> MultivaluedMap<String, String> Request.getFormParameters()
> What should this method do, if the type isn't a form?
> IllegalStateException?
>
Yes.
Marc.
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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.