"by applications using reflection to construct the entity" i.e.
@GET
public Response myGenericDispatch()
{
Method method = ...;
Object entity = method.invoke(...);
return
Response.ok(entity).genericType(method.getGenericReturnType()).build();
}
Marc Hadley wrote:
> Hmm. But how would users get the value of genericType except via the
> same trick that GenericEntity uses - in which case why wouldn't they
> just use that directly ? Normally type erasure removes the necessary
> information so you can't get the generic type at runtime which is why we
> added GenericEntity...
>
> Marc.
>
> On Aug 20, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
>
>> https://jsr311.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=48
>>
>> GenericEntity should have an additional constructor so that rawType,
>> type, and
>> entity can be set by applications using reflection to construct entity
>> objects.
>>
>> public GenericEntity(Class rawType, Type genericType, T entity)
>> {
>> this.rawType = rawType;
>> this.genericType = genericType;
>> this.entity = entity;
>> }
>>
>> This would allow applications that are using reflection to set the
>> generic type.
>> It would be public as it doesn't make much sense to require extending.
>>
>>
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