Hi Ryan
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Ryan Zoerner <ryanzoer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the paragraph, with the hyperlink to the jaxrs demo, I said this:
>
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> The client opens a printStream that is associated with the connection, and
> from that connection the client obtains the return information that would
> normally be
> associated with a GET request. It may be that since the only @Path in
> CustomerService
> with "/customerservice/customers/{id}" is the GET method, that the service
> automatically
> just queries that @Path and assumes a GET request, since that method is
> annotated with
> the @GET annotation. If you annotated it with more than one HTTP
> RequestType, I am unsure
> what would happen at the moment. That said, here is the refactoring part of
> the code.
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> However, I found this, in a stack trace:
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> May 12, 2011 4:29:04 AM org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.utils.JAXRSUtils
> findTargetMethod
> WARNING: No operation matching request path /customer/123 is found,
> HTTP Method : GET, ContentType : */*,
> Accept : text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8,.
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>
> Apparently the findTargetMethod(?); method named above
> takes care of selecting the HTTP method, at least in this case, based upon
> what url is received. But I was right, no explicit GET method is sent, the
> application simply selects, based upon input, which method to assume, or
> use.
>
No, HTTP method is always sent by the client code, it is just in your
case, when you do
url.openStream() or similar, it's defaulted to GET.
By the way, enabling the FINE logging level on the server side will
let you see more details about the selection process
Cheers, Sergey
> Ryan
>
