First, the good news. My code is working. But I don't understand WHY it works.
Using Restlet and the "Annotated Interface" approach, described at http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_2.0/13-restlet/27-restlet/328-restlet/285-restlet.html. I am also running Restlet GAE (if that matters). I am using Post to add a new Comment to a collection of Comments, so my CommentsResource interface has the following: @Post("json") public Representation postJson(String value); @Post("java") public Representation postJava(Comment comment); @Post("form") public Representation postForm(Form form); And my CommentsServerResource class that implements this interface has three corresponding implementations, each of which is annotated to match the methods in the interface. Now I write a test case in Java. The essence is: ClientResource client4 = new ClientResource("xxx/comments/"); CommentsResource commentsResource = client4.wrap(CommentsResource.class); client4.setRequestEntityBuffering(true); // stackoverflow.com/questions/6462142 Comment comment = new Comment("Hi there from Java", new Date()); Representation representation4 = commentsResource.postJava(comment); And the big mystery is that the postJava() method is NOT called, but rather the postJson() method IS called. And somehow my Comment object was magically converted to a Json string. It's kinda cool that it works this way, but I am sure I am missing something (in addition to my lack of IQ points, which must be obvious by now :) :) ). RB -- View this message in context: http://restlet-discuss.1400322.n2.nabble.com/Mystery-of-Post-tp7338202p7338202.html Sent from the Restlet Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2928866
