Re: [aerogear-dev] [Aeorgear Controller] Additional type support on endpoints methods

Hi, I'm currently working on scaffolding AG-controller stuff and for that I'm relying on the REST endpoints generated by the forge REST plugin. A typical method's signature of a generated endpoint looks like that : *public Response findById(Long id)* But an AG Controller route definition can't point to such a target method since it only support Strings as parameters : * route().from("/customers/{id}").on(RequestMethod.GET).consumes(JSON).produces(JSON).to(CustomerEndpoint.class).findById(param("id")); * * * Of course, the quick workaround would be to change the signature of the endpoint to : *public Response findById(String id)* * * But, in my particular case, after the scaffolding happens I can't really tell the developers : "Well, now you have to change manually all the signature of your endpoints and convert your Strings to Longs". Another use case could be an application having existing endpoints used by a Application A and we introduce Application B using AG controller. More generally, I think it would be a nice addition to AG controller. I've already proposed a pull request[1] that can't handle all the types which have a constructor with a single String parameter : Long, Integer, BigDecimal, etc ... And also added unit tests to be sure I doesn't break Feedback is more than welcome ! Seb [1] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-controller/pull/55