[seam-dev] Seam RESTEasy renamed to Seam REST

[Pete Muir]

Very nice!

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On 29 Oct 2010, at 17:14, Jozef Hartinger <jharting at redhat.com> wrote:

> Thanks Lincoln, great ideas! The RESTEasy Client Framework also allows reusing of JAX-RS annotated interfaces, so we can have an interface
>
> @Path("/users")
> public interface UserService
> {
>   @GET
>   List<User> searchUsers(@QueryParam("search") String query, at QueryParam("start") int start, @QueryParam("limit") int limit);
> }
>
> which is implemented by the server. Then on the client, we can reuse it an simply do:
>
> @Inject @RestService(url="http://example.com/users")
> private UserService users;
>
> ...
> List<User> jozefs = users.searchUsers("Jozef", 0, 20);
>
> which gets translated to the following and sent to the server:
> GET http://example.com/users?search=Jozef&start=0&show=20
> The response is unmarshalled automatically.
>
> I've opened https://jira.jboss.org/browse/SEAMREST-5 Feel free to add.
>
> On 10/29/2010 03:43 PM, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
>> Yes, exactly! Though I suppose if they are using RestEasy they will have
>> this functionality by default, as you suggest. I wasn't thinking clearly
>> when I wrote this, however. You are very correct. If RestEasy is already
>> on the classpath, it should probably provide injection for web-service
>> endpoints (via @Qualifer) annotations.
>>
>> @Inject @RestEndpoint
>> private Endpoint<DataService> endpoint;
>>
>> The endpoint could then provide access to things like the HttpClient,
>> the Request object, methods to invoke:
>>
>> endpoint.sendRequest();
>> endpoint.getResponse();
>>
>> And would take care of the bootstrap / typing / (un)marshalling, etc...
>>
>> Pretty much a super-quick way of specifying a web-service endpoint and
>> invoking it via RestEasy Client Framework (under the covers of course)
>> If there's an easier way, then this wouldn't be needed, but that's my
>> thought!
>>
>> --Lincoln
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Jozef Hartinger <jharting at redhat.com
>> <mailto:jharting at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Do you mean making a fork of the client framework in seam-rest or
>>    providing an integration with it (available when RESTEasy is on
>>    classpath)? I'll add it to the project ideas page.
>>
>>
>>    On 10/27/2010 04:06 PM, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
>>
>>        Excellent! I think that's a good call, and will help people adopt!
>>
>>        Have we considered moving the RestEast Client Framework into Seam
>>        RestEasy, or at least pulling it in if we are not already? That
>>        might be
>>        another sweet feature to help wet people's appetite.
>>
>>        Since we're no longer directly targeting RESTEasy, having a client
>>        consumer framework available to them would no longer be a
>>        "standard,"
>>        but it certainly would be nice.
>>
>>        I think we should consider this if not already done.
>>        --Lincoln
>>
>>        On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Pete Muir
>>        <pmuir at bleepbleep.org.uk <mailto:pmuir at bleepbleep.org.uk>
>>        <mailto:pmuir at bleepbleep.org.uk
>>        <mailto:pmuir at bleepbleep.org.uk>>> wrote:
>>
>>            Jozef has decided to target this module at the JAX-RS
>>        standard only,
>>            therefore the module name has changed slightly. We renamed
>>        the repo
>>            on github accordingly.
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