Re: [Resteasy-developers] Providers and Future Bloat

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

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. 
> 


tjws is required by the server.  It is our shipped "embedded" JAX-RS server.

Apache HttpClient is required by our client framework.

> This will require some work in RegisterBuiltin.java since it currently 
> registers all providers whether optional or not.
> 

I want to refactor RegisterBuiltin into an XML configuration file that 
lists providers that the user can remove/replace, etc...

or maybe we can just list the providers in web.xml as a context param 
instead of having a separate Resteasy config file?  I'm thinking users 
might like this more.

> *Required by spec:*
> ByteArrayProvider
> DefaultTextPlain
> DataSourceProvider
> FormUrlEncodedProvider
> InputStreamProvider
> JAXBProvider
> StringTextStar
> 
> (are we missing providers for Reader, File and javax.xml.transform.Source?)
> 

Mark Little might be implementing these.

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

No, we need this for the spec.


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