Stephan, I think this is the same design mistake that was made by the Servlet API. Let me have a look at the related EG discussion.
Best regards, Jerome > -----Message d'origine----- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : jeudi 6 mars 2008 10:30 > À : discuss@restlet.tigris.org > Objet : Re: first send headers, than create message body? > > Hello Jerome, > > yes, I know this way and using it. > But for this case the JAX-RS proposal requires, that it is > possible to > create the http headers and the body in *the same* method. > > public void methodname(StreamingOutput so, ...) > { > Response jaxRsResponse = ... > // create response headers. > OutputStream os = do.getOutputStream(response); // this > should send > the http headers from the jaxRsResponse. > os.write(...); > os.write(...); > os.write(...); > os.write(...); > } > > This should all happens in *one* method. > > best regards > Stephan > >> is it possible to code in Restlet, that I create a message > >> head, than start to send it and afterwoods start to create > >> the entity data (the message body) in one method, without > >> creating a new Representation subclass that does it? > >> I think not, or does I miss something? > >> > > This is easily possible by creating a subclass of > OutputRepresentation. > > > > response.setEntity(new OutputRepresentation(){ > > public void write(OutputStream os){ > > os.write(...) > > os.write(...) > > os.write(.. perhaps large data ..) > > os.write(...) > > os.write(.. more large data ..) > > os.write(...) > > os.write(...) > > }; > > }); > >
