Re: [Resteasy-developers] PathSegment issues

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

On 10/23/2012 12:01 PM, David Kaspar wrote:
> I am trying to use PathSegment to receive "an arbitrary set of
> name-value pairs embedded in a uri path segment". I am following this
> documentation:
>
> http://docs.jboss.org/resteasy/docs/2.3.5.Final/userguide/html_single/#_PathParam_and_PathSegment
>
> The endpoint in the example is defined as
> @GET
> @Path("/book/{id}")
> public String getBook(@PathParam("id") PathSegment id) {...}
>
> And the given url is
> GET http://host.com/library/book;name=EJB 3.0;author=Bill Burke
>
> The problem is that this url format doesn't work for us (404, the
> endpoint is not found). To make it work we had to include the / and a
> placeholder like so:
> GET http://host.com/library/book/id;name=EJB 3.0;author=Bill Burke
>
> Is the documentation correct and we are misusing PathSegment or is the
> documentation incorrect?
>

You are misunderstanding how path expressions work

@Path("/book/{id}") expects a segment after /book.

I'd suggest an additional new method:

@Path("/book")
public String getBook(@MatixParam("name") String name, 
@MatrixParam("author") String author) {...}

FYI, I don't use matrix parameters anymore.  I've found that some 
non-Java URI parsing APIs don't parse them very well (particularly 
Python).  I'd suggest using query parameters.

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Bill Burke
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