Le 2012-11-29 à 11:08, Roger Perryman <[email protected]> a écrit :

> 
> On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Le 2012-11-28 à 17:11, Roger Perryman <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> 
>>> Thanks Michael. I've looked at it but I'll take a closer look at those 
>>> classes. I assume I need to focus on @PathParam. While we're on the topic, 
>>> what is the preferred way to code REST? Should I be using Annotations? Or 
>>> does it depend on what the controller is doing?
>> 
>> I never used the annotations. The only time I would use them is if I have to 
>> register like 100 controllers, just to not have to do it in Application.
> 
> If you are not using the @PathParam annotation, then how do you specify the 
> parameters for the method?

By parameters, you mean something like ?key=value ? Like Mike said, call 
stringFormValueForKey 

http://slideshare.net/wocommunity/er-rest-thebasics

Slides 25 and 26

or 

http://slideshare.net/wocommunity/er-rest-designinggoodapi

Slides 15 and 16

> I assume you would use routeObjectForKey to access them. Does this mean there 
> is no formal method signature? This would be similar to accessing parameters 
> from a DirectAction call.
> 
>>> 
>>> Roger
>>> 
>>> On Nov 28, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Michael Hast wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Roger:
>>>> 
>>>> Take a look at the ERRestRouteExample application from Wonder. It helped 
>>>> me understand how all that Rest stuff works in Wonder. It has some nice 
>>>> inline comments. I would take a look at Application.java, 
>>>> CarController.java and CompanyController.java. Both the CarController and 
>>>> CompanyController have a showAction that uses a parameter.
>>>> 
>>>> Michael
>>>> 
>>>> On 11/28/2012 9:46 AM, Roger Perryman wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Le 2012-11-28 à 10:40, Roger Perryman <[email protected]
>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi All!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I am still getting my feet wet with ERRest. Does anyone have an
>>>>>>> example of a REST call to a custom method on an EO that is not a
>>>>>>> model property and that takes parameters? All of the examples that I
>>>>>>> have found use model properties and just "automagically" work. The
>>>>>>> framework extracts the parameters and updates modeled properties. The
>>>>>>> only example of a non-model property was derivedCurrentTime but it
>>>>>>> doesn't use any parameters.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If the custom method is part of the EO class, you just need to add a
>>>>>> ERXKey and add it to the keys for the response or request.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If I understand you, you are saying to add these to my custom EO class:
>>>>> publicstaticfinalString LIST_PRACTICES_KEY= "listPractices";
>>>>> public static final ERXKey<com.xeotech.resttest.datamodel.Practice>
>>>>> LIST_PRACTICES = new
>>>>> ERXKey<com.xeotech.resttest.datamodel.Practice>(LIST_PRACTICES_KEY);
>>>>> 
>>>>> I still don't see how to retrieve the parameters to pass to this method.
>>>>> Also, based on a comment below, I assumed this method would live in the
>>>>> controller, not the EO.
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For example, given an address (or latitude / longitude coordinates)
>>>>>>> and a distance, find all Practices within the specified distance from
>>>>>>> the address. I'm unclear on how to extract the parameters and use
>>>>>>> them in a custom method.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Another example: I need to fetch all Practices that a Physician is
>>>>>>> associated with. I can get the list of Practices and I can get the
>>>>>>> list of Physicians. What is not clear is how to retrieve the
>>>>>>> Practices for the Physician. There is a relationship defined between
>>>>>>> Physicians and Practices. I'm sure it will end up requiring me to
>>>>>>> tweak my route setup.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This is from the ERRestRouteExample.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> routeRequestHandler.addRoute(new ERXRoute(Person.ENTITY_NAME,
>>>>>>> "/Person/{person:Person}", ERXRoute.Method.Get,
>>>>>>> PersonController.class, "show"));
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Would I change it to
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> routeRequestHandler.addRoute(new ERXRoute(Physician.ENTITY_NAME,
>>>>>>> "/Physician/{physician:Physician}/{practices:Practice}",
>>>>>>> ERXRoute.Method.Get, PhysicianController.class, "show"));
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It doesn't seem to work. Also, is "show" the proper choice? This is
>>>>>>> being sent to a client as data for a list and not displayed directly.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "show" is ok, as long as you have a "show" or "showAction" in
>>>>>> PhysicianController. But for naming purposes, if you want to get a
>>>>>> list of practices for a physician, I would call the method
>>>>>> "listPractices".
>>>>> 
>>>>> So in the example above, practices is the name of a method inside my
>>>>> controller, not a relationship or attribute defined in the model? I
>>>>> can't find it now, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that if the
>>>>> framework cannot find a method, it check other places. Would the method
>>>>> without the final argument be more appropriate? And since I don't need
>>>>> to specify the Practice, how do I specify no parameters?
>>>>> 
>>>>> routeRequestHandler.addRoute(new ERXRoute(Physician.ENTITY_NAME,
>>>>> "/Physician/{physician:Physician}/{listPractices:null}",
>>>>> ERXRoute.Method.Get, PhysicianController.class));
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is it OK to use addDefaultRoutes and also define additional routes?
>>>>>>> Or do I need to manually add all the routes if I need to customize any?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yes it is ok.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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