Hi Tom,
Thanks for sharing this workaround, this looks good. You could simplify this
code block:
if(!((status.getCode() >= 200)&&(status.getCode() <= 299))){
by this one:
if(!status.isSuccess()){
Best regards,
Jerome
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Tom McGee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Envoyé : samedi 8 septembre 2007 01:51
> À : [email protected]
> Objet : Flex rest weakness work-around
>
> I've been looking a Flex as a front end for a rest service. But Flex
> has a weakness. It does not grantee that it will return the http
> status when a call in returned. All the flex client knows is that the
> call susedde4d or failed. And the header data is not returned to the
> Flex client. (see:http://www.fngtps.com/2007/06/flex-can-t-do-rest).
> To get around this I am thinking that in the restlets code I could
> catch any non 200 results and send a modified 200 result that the Flex
> code would be looking for. Here's my first cut at some code:
>
> public class FlexOverrideStatusService extends StatusService {
>
> public FlexOverrideStatusService() {
> super(true);
> }
>
> public Representation getRepresentation(Status status,
> Request request,
> Response response) {
> Representation result = null;
> if(!((status.getCode() >=
> 200)&&(status.getCode() <= 299))){
> Form query =
> request.getResourceRef().getQueryAsForm(null);
> String testFlex =
> query.getFirstValue("flexErrorStatusOverride");
> if ((testFlex !=
> null)&&(testFlex.equalsIgnoreCase("true"))) {
> response.setStatus(Status.SUCCESS_OK);
> result = new
> StringRepresentation("statusError="+String.valueOf(status.getC
> ode()+"\n\n"+status.getDescription()));
> }
>
> request.getAttributes().put("preStatus", status);
> }
> if(result == null){
> result =
> super.getRepresentation(status, request, response);
> }
> return result;
> }
>
> }
>
> Any options?
