Re: [Resteasy-developers] ResourceFactory

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

Ryan J. McDonough wrote:
> 
> On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
> 
>> I don't see why you need a change to Resteasy to do this when the 
>> JAX-RS spec allows you to return any arbitrary object from a 
>> subresource locator.  For example:
>>
>> @Path("/")
>> public class CustomerDatabase {
>>
>>   @Path("customers/{id}")
>>   public Object getCustomer() {
>>
>>       Customer cust = jpa.find(...);
>>       return cust;
>>   }
>> }
>>
>> public class Customer {
>>
>>   @GET
>>   public String get() {...}
>>
>>   @Path("/address")
>>   public String getAddress() {...}
>> }
>>
>> So
>>
>> GET /customers/1
>> GET /customer/1/address
>>
>> Would eventually route to Customer.
> 
> I've tried that, and it does not work. You can certainly get the Contact 
> entity, but any @Path annotations on the entity are not processed. We 
> don't have any unit tests which cover this sort of behavior, so it maybe 
> that we don't support this yet? (Or support this with EJB's?) I was also 
> taking a look at the Jersey "Bookmark" example app, and they have 
> created separate resource classes for child entities. Ideally, I don't 
> want to do this. You've got similar patterns being repeated and we've 
> got a lot of meta data on the entity that we can use. 
> 

You'll have to show me an example because I'm not sure exactly what you 
are doing here.

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Bill Burke
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