Hello Leshek,
I'm not sure the ReferenceList object is really helpful for you.
You can either code your representations (HTML and XML) manually or
use one of the templated representations (freemarker, velocity) or one
of the XML-related representations (JIBX, JAXB).
best regards,
Thierry Boileau
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Leshek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking for reference and reference list guidance, examples ( I think).
>
> At the first level of my service my URI pattern is simply AT the root my
> service is simply "/{type}";
>
> In the root of my service I just started creating I would like to return a
> list of links to all available types. I would like the list to have a title
> and each link to have some descriptive label. I will need to do it in html
> and xml, but lets concentrate on html. Before starting to craft my HTML and
> XML "by hand" I looked around and looks to me ReferenceList is a good
> candidate to help.
>
> So in my Resource.represent I do something like:
> ReferenceList rl = new ReferenceList();
> for (int i = 0; i < supportedTypes.length; i++) {
> Reference url = new Reference(getRequest().getRootRef());
> url.addSegment(supportedTypes[i]);
> rl.add(url);
> }
> return rl.getWebRepresentation();
>
> Any hints, example or doc pointes would be highly appreciated. I tried, but
> I think I do not understand the concepts I am dealing with.
>
> I would like to make it more informative, with the page title (instead of
> "List of references"), labels, the text for each URI, instead of dry URI.
>
> Here is what I get now:
>
> List of references
> http://localhost:9080/myrest/Type1
> http://localhost:9080/myrest/Type2
> ...
>
>
> I would like to get at least:
>
> List of links for lists of items of a specific type
> Type1
> Type2
> ...
>
>
> With URIs in the source.
>
>
>
>
