Hey John,
That would be an interesting feature, useful even beyond just Microprofile
actually (imho) :)
Should we have a dedicated module for it instead of using the client one? We
would
have the dependency to Microprofile REST Client SPI/API there, may be it is
better
not to introduce it into the existing client module (even as an optional)?
Best Regards,
Andriy Redko
JDA> Hey all
JDA> Andy (McCright) and I (as well as some others who don't contribute to CXF)
JDA> have been working on another project, specifically around standardizing how
JDA> Type Safe rest clients can be built within MIcroProfile. There's two main
JDA> aspects to this, as well as some changes potentially required for a
JDA> presently CXF specific provider.
JDA> - Programmatic builder API for creating the clients from a JAX-RS annotated
JDA> interface
JDA> - CDI injection support for interfaces
JDA> I have most of an implementation for this working, and would like to start
JDA> to bring it into the CXF codebase. My thought is to bring most of it
JDA> directly into the client module, and update some of the core logic there to
JDA> work with MicroProfile's APIs. There are some functional differences
JDA> though. One of the things we felt was important was mapping Response codes
JDA> into Exceptions, something that CXF already had support for. The behavior
JDA> is a little different in that we will evaluate multiple mappers as well as
JDA> handle any response code.
JDA> You can read more about the API and specification at
JDA> https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-rest-client
JDA> You can also see the base impl I've started on at
JDA> https://github.com/johnament/cxfmprestclient
JDA> John
