On Aug 20, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>
>> For javax.ws.rs.core.Response, spec says that "An application class
>> can extend this class directly or can use one the static methods to
>> create an instance using a ResponseBuilder."
>>
>> The problem with this is that if the user sets the entity to be a
>> GenericEntity, the runtime has no way of getting at the type
>> information that GenericEntity is supposed to provide as
>> getEntity() is supposed to unwrap GenericEntity.
>>
>
> That JavaDoc is written from the intent of the runtime processing a
> Response instance, but i think it can be made clearer. It is the
> runtime processing the response that checks if the entity is an
> instance of GenericEntity and if so unwraps the information in the
> GenericEntity instance.
>
Right. I'll try to make that clearer in the Javadoc, sorry for the
confusion.
Marc.
>
>> Either don't allow users to extend Response or add a
>> getGenericType() method to Response. I vote for adding a
>> getGenericType() method.
>>
>> --
>> Bill Burke
>> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
>> http://bill.burkecentral.com
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