Hi Tim, While I'm still not convinced of the advantages of annotations used this way, you did put some doubts in my mind :) Also, instead of small enhancements in Restlet 1.2 on this front, waiting for a redesign planned in Restlet 2.0, I think we should aim at a full redesign right now. I've reverted my previous changes to the Resource class in SVN trunk to keep all options open, and I have started some specs on the wiki: "Resource API refactoring" http://wiki.restlet.org/developers/172-restlet/226-restlet.html You will find a collection of requirements, an analysis and a high-level design start. Did I miss any important requirement? Does anyone has design propositions? Now is time for comment! Best regards, Jerome Louvel -- Restlet ~ Founder and Lead developer ~ <http://www.restlet.org/> http://www.restlet.org Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ <http://www.noelios.com> http://www.noelios.com
_____ De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de Tim Peierls Envoye : mardi 27 janvier 2009 00:25 A : [email protected] Objet : Re: media type adaptor I have looked at JAX-RS (and I know that it makes heavy use of annotations), but this was not about JAX-RS. My comment was specifically about the proposed use of a method-naming convention to convey meta-information in Restlet where it seems to me that an annotation-based approach would be better. Don't get me wrong: I very much like the simplicity of Restlet as it is, and I am not pushing for greater use of annotations in general. It's just that this particular feature seems like a mistake as it stands. --tim On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Stephan Koops <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Tim, I didn't follow the ful discussion, but did you take a look to JAX-RS? best regards Stephan Tim Peierls schrieb: > > So, if we are back using runtime annotations, there is no > particular type safety in play: > > Representation representXml(); > > would be as good (and even more compact) as: > > @Variant("xml") > Representation toXml(); > > or if you want to be more explicit about the mediatype: > > @Variant("text/xml") > Representation toXml(); > > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447 <http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=1055994> &dsMessageId=1055994 ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=1073785
