Hi all, FYI, the *@Status* annotation has indeed been added in Restlet API v2.3 and works on both server and client side as discussed in this thread.
Thanks, Jerome On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Ralph van Etten <ra...@et10.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > > On 06/06/2014 12:20 AM, Jerome Louvel wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > In V2.3 of Restlet API, we would like to introduce automatic conversion > > between Java throwable and HTTP status+body, working both ways (client > > and server sides). > > > ... > > > > Would that be useful in your web APIs? Any design feed-back? > > Yes, that would be very useful. > In fact, I am already doing something similar. > > I have put similar annotations on my exceptions. In the doCatch() of my > ServerResource I process those annotations and send a JSON document > containing error details to the client. The client then uses the > information in the JSON document and converts it to the same exception. > > On the server side this works fine but my client implementation is not > as good as you are describing. Similar functionality provided by Restlet > would be very welcome. > > > Regards, > > Ralph van Etten > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=3079995 > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=3099822
