On Jun 3, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Marc Hadley wrote:
> Attached is a HTML table that outlines what I see as the possible
> values of var depending on type T in:
>
> @Path(value="{var}" limited=false)
> public class SomeResource {
> @GET
> public SomeType get(@PathParam("var") T var) {...}
> }
>
> for a request
>
> GET /1/2/3.
>
> As pointed out earlier in the thread, options (a) and (d) don't
> really work for PathSegment since that is designed to represent a
> single path segment rather than multiple. IMO, option (c) gives a
> surprising result for String which really only leaves option (b) as
> viable. Option (b) is a bit odd since the results are quite
> different depending on the type T but its already the case that
> PathSegment is special (it extracts the whole path segment even if
> the referenced template variable has adjacent literal characters) so
> I think I can live with that.
>
> Thoughts ?
> Marc.
For those who couldn't read it the first time, the table is at:
https://jsr311.dev.java.net/sketches/table.html
Sorry about that.
Marc.
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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.