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Custom REST path [message #1723001]

Wed, 10 February 2016 18:31

Dan Cunningham

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I'm working on a binding that needs to expose JSON and XML web services. This was easy enough to do by implementing RESTRsource and using JAXRS annotations. So I have a working REST endpoint at /rest/myapp . Life is good!

Unfortunately the device that consumes this web service is hard coded to hit a specific URL, so in this case it wants to hit /myapp and not /rest/myapp.

What I would like is to keep using JAXRS, but register my web service to something not "/rest/...." I can see how to register a custom servlet to any path, but I really want to keep using JAXRS annotations and not have to manually parse and format request/responses. I'm stumped how to do this.

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Re: Custom REST path [message #1723331 is a reply to message #1723001]

Sun, 14 February 2016 14:21

Karel Goderis

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Dan,

Could this not be done by adding the @Path("/myapp") annotation to your root resource class?

Karel

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Re: Custom REST path [message #1723360 is a reply to message #1723331]

Mon, 15 February 2016 06:51

Dan Cunningham

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using the Path annotation will append it to the current ROOT base path which is set to /rest. The only way I could find to bypass this was to use "httpService.registerServlet" and use a plain old HttpServlet. In the end the functionality is the same, I just dislike handling all the GET/PUT/POST logic and path parsing by hand.

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Re: Custom REST path [message #1723368 is a reply to message #1723360]

Mon, 15 February 2016 08:17

Karel Goderis

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mmh.... can't you combine the two approaches? do a registration as a servlet, and use the annotations on the other classes? I presume you dislike it because you use variable paths and alike in the annotations?

Personally I have done the CalDAV server part through the "classic" httpService registration and by overriding methods, and it was relatively easy to do once you get the mechanics of it, but I understand your point of view Wink

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Re: Custom REST path [message #1723901 is a reply to message #1723368]

Fri, 19 February 2016 03:04

Dan Cunningham

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Web servlet annotation is probably possible, but as you pointed out its the path parsing which is painful, and this is where jaxrs would have looked much prettier Wink

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