Hi Diego
But that would introduce a CXF specific extension at a standard JAX-RS
interface level. In general I'm quite open to adding new extensions but
I'd rather not to in this case...Besides, IMHO, it really should be the
job for the JAX-RS runtime, to parse the multivalued query/matrix
properties.
What you might want to experiment with is to add a prematch request
filter which will reset a query string if needed to have List<String>
working for either a=1&a=2 or a=1,2, etc
Thanks, Sergey
On 17/10/16 12:46, Diego Ruotolo wrote:
Hi Sergey,
thanks for your answer.
I think a good solution could be to pass the ParamConverter a string
containing all the values of a multi-valued query parameter, and let the
user build the collection object.
So, if I have a query string like:
MY_PARAM=VALUE_1&FOO=BAR&MY_PARAM=VALUE_2, the ParamConvert should receive
the string MY_PARAM=VALUE_1&MY_PARAM=VALUE_2, and the user should build the
collection in in the fromString() method. In this way the user can deal
with both the whole collection and its single values.
I also suggest this behaviour should be activated through a property in
order not to break backward compatibility.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Diego
2016-10-17 11:47 GMT+02:00 Sergey Beryozkin <sberyoz...@gmail.com>:
Hi
Thanks for this query, let me redirect to the CXF users list.
FYI, CXF JAX-RS runtime prepares a List itself and only expects
ParamConverters if any to convert individual values.
I believe RI (Jersey) will also act the same way - but I may be wrong now.
You can check a "ParamConverter and Collections" thread on the jaxrs users
list. My understanding there was no any agreement reached.
Cheers, Sergey
On 16/10/16 23:48, Diego Ruotolo wrote:
Hi everybody,
this is my first post to this mailing list.
I am using Apache CXF and I have the following problem: I need to read a
multiple-value query parameter that is written in a
comma-separated-values (CSV) format, hence non standard HTTP way.
I know that this will be fixed in versions 3.1.8 and 3.2.0 with the
contextual property "parse.query.value.as.collection", as written here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-6941
but the above solution works for ALL query parameters, I want to be
selective, for instance I just want query parameters annotated with
@MyAnnotation to be parsed as CSV collection, other query parameters may
accept commas as a value.
Therefore I've written a ParamConverter provided by a
ParamConverterProvider: the latter reads the annotation and returns the
appriopriate ParamConverter that converts a String into a List. But this
is not working since the returned List is used as first element of the
linked method parameter, so in the end I have a List of List.
Example:
Query parameter: MY_PARAM=VALUE_1,VALUE_2,VALUE_3
Method parameter: List<?> myParam; // Here I put "?" instead of "String"
as generic type in order to explain this example
ParamConverter fromString() method: return
Arrays.asList(value.split(",")); //returns a List<String>
Expected result: myParam is a List<String>, a list of 3 elements
(VALUE_1, VALUE_2, VALUE_3)
Actual result: myParam is a List<List<String>>, a list with one element,
this single element is a list of 3 elements (VALUE_1, VALUE_2, VALUE_3)
It seems that when used in conjuction with a List (a Collection?) method
parameter, a ParamConverter works per-element, not for the whole list.
Is this the correct behaviour? Do you know some work-around that I could
use without writing an Apache CXF Interceptor (I don't want to be bound
to an implementation of JAX-RS) ?
I've noticed that Jersey has a similar issue too:
https://java.net/jira/browse/JERSEY-2763
Thanks in advice,
best regards
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Sergey Beryozkin
Talend Community Coders
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