Hello Stokes,
Your approach seems ok for me. Your Gadget Resource is well identified,
and you just want to customize the representation of a gadget.
Just attach your resource with the simple pattern "/gadgets/{gadgetId}".
Then, in your resource, you can get the query parameters just as follow :
Form form = request.getResourceRef().getQueryAsForm();
and ask for the value of parameter "includeGizmoDetail" just as follow :
form.getFirstValue("includeGizmoDetail");
Best regards,
Thierry Boileau
I'm using Restlets mainly for read-only access to domain objects, which are
rendered as XML. In some cases I would like the amount of detail in the
representation to be specified in the request.
For example, if Gadgets contain Gizmos, then I have:
http://myhost.com/rest/gadgets/1234 for the details of a Gadget
http://myhost.com/rest/gadgets/1234/gizmos for the Gizmos within a Gadget
http://myhost.com/rest/gadgets/1234/gizmos/5678 for the details of a Gizmo
But in some cases, I need to fetch a Gadget with all its Gizmo data inline. I
was thinking something like:
http://myhost.com/rest/gadgets/1234?includeGizmoDetail=true
First, is this the right way to approach this problem?
Second, if so, how can I access 'optional' query parameters like this from my
Restlet? I can make the query parameter part of the pattern given to my Router
(and access the includeGizmoDetail as a Request attribute), but then it doesn't
match when the parameter isn't present. I can attach my Restlet twice to the
Router with two patterns, but that doesn't feel right either.
Thanks,
Stokes.
