1st approach looks good to me. -- Kind Regards, Ashish Vijaywargiya Vice President of Operations *HotWax Systems* *Enterprise open source experts* http://www.hotwaxsystems.com
On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 1:29 AM Konstantinos Marinos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was hoping to start a discussion about the current interaction of setting > export="true" in a service definition in regards to the recently added > rest-api module in the framework. The same flag that existed before > (export="true") now additionally exposes a service definition as a REST > endpoint. This is one of the ways to create a REST endpoint (the other > major one being a *.rest.xml definition file) but since the component is > now part of the framework, this could have unintended consequences. > > My biggest concern is that developers might not immediately realise that > this one flag is used for similar but distinct use cases and this might not > be the desired behaviour for all new or previously exported services. > > In order to avoid implicitly exposing services with potentially unintended > consequences, I am reaching out for your thoughts on the following > alternative actions: > > * We remove the feature of defining REST endpoints in this matter > completely. Previously existing usages of export="true" remain unaffected > and REST endpoints can be defined by dedicated rest.xml files. > > * We create a separate flag in the service definition (e.g. > export-api="true") that only controls the auto discovery and creation of > these REST endpoints. The two export features are then decoupled from each > other and by setting the new flag in the service definition, clear intent > is communicated by the developers. > > What do you think about these two options? > > If you are already using this feature to create REST endpoints or plan to > use it in the future, please let me know as well, as it would mean that the > second option has merit and it is the least destructive change of the two. > > Thank you and best regards, > Konstantinos Marinos >
