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

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