Re: [Resteasy-developers] @OPTIONS

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

You are right, i've added a jira task for this:

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RESTEASY-111

Christian Sadilek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried to call OPTIONS on a Resource and always get a "405 Method 
> not allowed". Should it work already using beta5? Also I could not find 
> @OPTIONS in javax.ws.rs as described in 
> http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/UsingPathAndGETPOSTEtc.
> 
>  From the spec I get 3.3.5:
> On receipt of an OPTIONS request an implementation MUST either:
> 1. Call a method annotated with a request method designator for OPTIONS 
> or, if none present,
> 2. Generate an automatic response using the metadata provided by the 
> JAX-RS annotations on the matching class and its methods.
> 
> Is this still to be implemented or has there be any change in plan? I 
> think if no @OPTIONS is present RESTeasy should at least return the 
> Allow header. It might also make sense to annotate a resource method 
> with @OPTIONS to provide a custom response maybe a machine readable 
> description, but I am not sure about this.
> 
> A while ago I also promised some more feedback on the client framework. 
> I can only say that I didn't have any problems and everything worked 
> fine for me.
> 

I'm thinking of adding a client cache that can work with Cache-Control 
headers (like your browser).

Bill
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