Re: [Resteasy-developers] Thoughts on a MultipartProvider

[Ryan J. M. <ry...@da...>]

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I was just taking a look at one of you older threads regarding List<>  
and Set<> and it shouldn't be that difficult to support. I'll start by  
porting the original RepresentationHandler implementation and then  
work on the List and Set idea.

Ryan-

On Mar 15, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Bill Burke wrote:

>
>
> Ryan J. McDonough wrote:
>> In one of the initial versions of RESTEasy (some code I never  
>> apparently committed) I did have a RepresentationHandler for  
>> "multipart/form-data" and it worked out okay. The only down side  
>> was your method ended up looking something like this:
>
> Cool, port it over :)
>
>> @ConsumeMime("multipart/form-data")
>> public Object post(MimeMultipart muliPart) {
>> Order order =  
>> MultipartHelper.unmarshallPart( mp.getBodyPart(0),Order.class);
>> ...
>> Not the most elegant solution, but it should be able to work within  
>> guidelines of JAX-RS. On the other hand, it maybe nice to do  
>> something more like:
>
> Why do you
>
>> @ConsumeMime("multipart/form-data")
>> public Object post(@MultiPartParam(name="order",type = "application/ 
>> order+xml") Order order) {
>> ...
>> In this case, we'd push all of the processing logic to RESTEasy and  
>> the let the developer work with order element directly. However,  
>> I'm not sure if the processing logic would conflict with JAX-RS.  
>> I'm trying to play catch up on the spec as I got a bit rusty over  
>> the past few months. The MessageReader/Writer stuff is a bit new to  
>> me.
>
> I don't think it would work with JAX-RS.  The problem is, there's no  
> way in isReadable() to determine what the mime type of Order is.   
> You could see @MultiPartParam within isReadable() as the signature  
> now accepts Annotation[], but you'd have to hope and pray that  
> Order's type matches   something when you get into readFrom().
>
>
> BTW, I was also hoping to support multipart/mixed, form-data with  
> List<>, and Set<> return and parameter types.
>
> Bill
>
> -- 
> Bill Burke
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