Re: [Resteasy-developers] ORM + REST

[Bill B. <bb...@re...>]

Stef Epardaud wrote:
> I think what we need is related:
> 
> We would like to be able to serialise @XmlIDREF into REST URLs so that
> the response is more RESTful. Similarly we would want to unserialise
> them into the respective entity.
> 

Again, I could not find a way to extend JAXB to do fun stuff like this.

> For serialisation we just need to grab a hold on a UriInfo, then we look
> at the class of the object to serialise and return the appropriate URL.
> For deserialisation it would be nice to have a way to pass a request URL
> and get the unmarshalled entity directly from server to server, failing
> that some parsing of the URL to extract the entity ID and load it from
> the DB works (we do it this way currently via an IDResolver).
> 

Hmmm, ok.  I can look into that.  Any code snippets, examples, and 
guidance would help here.  Maybe even a blog/wiki page on the subject I 
can link to here on the dev list and my own blog would be a great help.

Bill

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