Re: [Resteasy-developers] Providers and Future Bloat

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

On Jul 9, 2008, at 5:49 AM, Martin Algesten wrote:

>
> I just ran into a snag here. I'm working on the pom.xml  
> straightening out the dependencies. When depending on resteasy-jaxrs  
> we currently pull in things like tjws and httclient. Basically I  
> want all dependencies that are not required to fulfil the spec to be  
> optional and not pulled in.
>
> This will require some work in RegisterBuiltin.java since it  
> currently registers all providers whether optional or not.
>
> Required by spec:
> ByteArrayProvider
> DefaultTextPlain
> DataSourceProvider
> FormUrlEncodedProvider
> InputStreamProvider
> JAXBProvider
> StringTextStar
>
> (are we missing providers for Reader, File and  
> javax.xml.transform.Source?)
>

Yes. I am working on Source now. File is bit odd IMHO and warrents  
some more discussion.

> Optional:
> DataContentProvider (not in use, delete?)

No, don't delete. This is still a WIP and it's being considered as  
required by JAX-RS.

> IIOImageProvider

This provider has no deps other than the JDK itself. I'd say leave it  
because it can come in handy and it's add no additional dependency.

> JettisonProvider

Leave, everyone wants JSON. RESTlet and Jersey will ship this by  
default.

> MimeMultipartProvider

Not required, but very much needed. RESTlet and Jersey will ship this  
by default.

> StreamingOutputProvider

StreamingOutput is required. It's at the top of page 22 in the latest  
spec.

>
> M
>
>
> On 8 Jul 2008, at 15:58, Bill Burke wrote:
>
>> Maybe a separate download/distro for optional providers?
>>
>> Ryan J. McDonough wrote:
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>>> I had a few more ideas for some other provider types and I realized
>>> that if we're not carful about, we could get fat really quickly.
>>> Here's a few provider ideas that Bill and I tossed around on this  
>>> list:
>>>
>>> POI provider
>>> SVG Provider
>>> PGP/GPG Provider
>>>
>>> Given these 3 alone, we now have dependencies on the following  
>>> projects:
>>>
>>> Jakarta POI
>>> Apache Batik
>>> Bouncy Castle or other PGP api
>>>
>>> It got me thinking: should we have an optional provider module(s)?
>>> Personally, I don't care. I think we've have the value-add of tons  
>>> of
>>> kick-ass providers with no fuss, it wouldn't matter. But you know
>>> inevitably, there'd be a TSS article or collection of blog posts  
>>> about
>>> how bloated RESTEasy is so bloated, yada yada yada. Does anyone else
>>> think this is a potential issue that we may want to address sooner
>>> than later?
>>>
>>> Ryan-
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