This post is linked to this question on StackOverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8223886/is-it-possible-to-have-strongly-typed-http-request-handlers-in-restlet
Specifically, I am interested to know how folks deal with the following scenario: There is a User resource, which is avaible for GET from http://localhost/user/{id} and for POST to http://localhost/user. Apparently, I cannot utilize the same ServerResource instance for both GET and POST, because the @Get method would be invoked both for GET http://localhost/user/{id} and for GET http://localhost/user, meaning that @Get method will have to validate whether "{id}" is present and return 405 if not. To avoid this kind of validations, one will have to use two different ServerResource types - one for GET (and PUT and DELETE) and the other for POST, something like this: router.attach("/user/{id}", UserResourceGetPutDelete.class); router.attach("/user", UserResourcePost.class); Still, my GET handler code is responsible for making sure the given id is an integer. Is it really how folks do it or am I missing anything? ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2889137
