From: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:03:22 -0500

On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Wilfred Springer wrote:
>
> One of the things that would be required to use WADL to describe
> WMS (Web Mapping Service) defined by the OGC (Open Geospatial
> Consortium) is having the oppurtunity to relate an input parameter
> refering to a mimetype to the mimetype of the response. Would this
> be something you would consider to include?
>
You can do something like that already if there is a fixed set of
supported mime types, e.g.:

<resource ...>
   <method name="GET">
     <request>
       <param name="format" style="query" fixed="application/svg+xml"/>
       ...
     </request>
     <response>
       <representation mediaType="application/svg+xml/>
     </response>
   </method>
   <method name="GET">
     <request>
       <param name="format" style="query" fixed="image/jpg"/>
       ...
     </request>
     <response>
       <representation mediaType="image/jpg"/>
     </response>
     <!-- etc -->
   </method>
</resource>

If you run that through the wadl2java tool you'll get a stub class
with methods like:

getAsImage_Jpg()
getAsApplication_svg_xml()
etc.

The other alternative is to use the native HTTP Accept header
mechanism where you'd write your WADL like:

<resource ...>
   <method name="GET">
     <request>
       ...
     </request>
     <response>
       <representation mediaType="application/svg+xml/>
       <representation mediaType="image/jpg"/>
       <!-- etc -->
     </response>
   </method>
</resource>

The wadl2java tool would generate the same methods as above and would
use the HTTP Accept header to request the right kind of output.

HTH,
Marc.


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Hadley [mailto:Marc.Hadley_at_Sun.COM]
> Sent: Thu 11/9/2006 5:36 PM
> To: users_at_wadl.dev.java.net; dev_at_wadl.dev.java.net
> Subject: New version of the WADL specification
>
> I've just checked in a new version of the WADL specification and the
> wadl2java tool. See:
>
> https://wadl.dev.java.net/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=4364
>
> for details on changes from the previous version.
>
> Regards,
> Marc.
>
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