[Resteasy-developers] Generics Support

[Mike C. (mchack) <mc...@ci...>]

I was wondering if the following pattern is supported, don't think so
but I may be missing something.

 

I would like to have a generic class wrap all my REST responses.

 

@GET

@Path(/somepath)

public GenericWrapper someMethod()

{

      ResponseObject response = New ResponseObject();

      return new GenericWrapper<response>(response);

 

}

 

The ResponseObject extends BasicResponse and is also annoted with JAX-B
@XmlRootEntity.

 

 

@XmlRootEntity

public class GenericWrapper<T extends BasicResponse>

{

    

    String  commondata;

    String othercommondata;

    String resultcode;

    ................

 

    T response;

 

    public GenericWrapper(T response)

    {

        this.response = response;

    }

}

 

This way it simplifes the number of concrete classes needed for
different response types. I don't think this works. Is there another
pattern for this or is it reasonable for the framework to  examine the
generics definition and search out the classes that extend BasicResponse
that have JAX-B annotations so proper marshalling can occur?

 

thanks

Mike Chack 
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