Thank you for the quick reply. This certainly would resolve the issue but it doesn't really offer the kind of solution I was hoping for. With this solution i'd still have to do a mapping of media type to some representation which is what I am trying to avoid. The thought was that there is a Representation that just outputs the message body regardless of whatever media type variant is set for it. That way I don't have to make a mapping of media type to anything.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Matt Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't remember what 1.1.6's API looks like, but I do something like this > with the 2.0 API. Basically, in the Resource's constructor, I use someting > like: > > getVariants().add(new MyXMLRepresentation(this)) > getVariants().add(new MyJSONRepresentation(this)) > > > Each of those My* classes are a subclass of Representation, and the write() > method is overridden to produce the custom media type. I pass the Resource > object to the custom representation so that I have access to the resource > during the write method. Also important is that in the constructor, you > call the super constructor with the MediaType and resource as arguments, ex: > > //Constructor > public MyJSONRepresentation(Resource res) > { > super(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, res); > } > > I know something like this can be done with the 1.1.6 API because I was > using it before I ported to 2.0, but now I can't find the 1.1.6 code. It > probably isn't too different. > > On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Jean-Philippe Steinmetz wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > We're using restlet 1.1.6 and for all our resources we want to support a > dynamic set of media types. We do this in our Spring configuration by > setting up a list of acceptable media types. My question is if there is a > Representation class I can use that will essentially accept any type of data > I push into it? For instance we support HTML, XML, JSON and AMF3 therefore > most of the time it's a string based representation but in the case of AMF3 > it is binary (byte array). So far the only way I see it is to make a switch > statement in our resource class for each media type but this pretty much > defeats the purpose of specifying supported media types in the application > configuration. > > > > Jean-Philippe > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2441312 > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2441339
