Brilliant! Thanks for the tip, I was wondering how I was going to do this.
R On 1/24/07, Valdis Rigdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello... > I just recently found this project and after evaluating decided to use > it for a project that I am starting. Great project, I am very impressed > so far. I am planning to run Restlet inside Jetty and Spring. > Based on the Spring example for configuring all the restlets and URIs in > the config, I am subclassing the ServerServlet so I can override the > createApplication method so Spring can manage all the classes for me. > > This works great except with defining Resources to handle the get, > delete, put, post methods. Since the handler is now auto created and > the Resource constructor requires a context, request, and response to be > created it makes it difficult to use Spring to manage the Resource > objects. If the idea is now that the Resource class is subclassed to > provide the implementation, it generally is going to need other objects, > like a DAO, to do the work. DAOs in particular are much simplified when > using Spring and being able to inject them into the Resource is required > if Spring is being used in my case. > > I can think of a possible work around by subclassing the object that > creates Resources and making that object a Spring bean so I can properly > inject other dependencies. It would be easiest if the the default > constructor was still available and not deprecated, so that Spring could > manage the Resources. Or possibly I should use explicit Handlers > instead? > > I have not dug into Restlet enough yet to know which is the best way to > proceed. > Any ideas or comments would be appreciated. > > Thank you! > -Brandon Brandon, The Spring managed approach for Resource instances is exactly how we've implemented Restlets for our project. If you are using Spring 2.0, then use the AOP support. In short, you annotate your classes extending Resource with @Configurable and Spring will inject the dependencies seamlessly after the constructor is finished, even though the Restlet framework is calling "new MyResource()". See http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/reference/aop.html for more details, specifically section 6.8. Valdis
