Greg, I'm very interested in how this works out. I've been looking at Jersey and I really like the annotations, but I have been way too swamped to really play with it with Lift (I've only tried their Hello World app). If you get this working, I'd love to see it.
Chas. Meredith Gregory wrote: > Tim, et al, > > Thanks for the many responses. Here's the overall context. i've got a > group that has done some significant work building a JRoR site. Now they > want to scale. As a part of a midterm strategy to get some reasonable > tooling in, we're building Scala-based RESTful APIs. Being an idiot, i > want as general a soln as possible. So, here's what i've done. > > * a plain, vanilla Hibernate reverse engineering strategy will fetch > both JPA and simple POJOs > o This gets me Scala access to the backend > * Now, i want to generate default "controller" behavior. i've > written a Scala program that eats what Hibernate spits out and > creates default controller behavior. It uses the Jersey > annotations (Produces, Consumes, Path, GET, PUT,...) to control > rendering to/from the client of the RESTful API > > What i want to do now is to interject lift into the mix so that we can > allow programmers to specialize the controller behavior in scala/lift code. > > The reason i've attempted to be fairly generic about all this is that i > believe this represents a tool-chain that allows a semi-automated > migration path from <pick-you-webframework> to lift/scala. The idea is > that the SQL schema is about 80% of where the rubber meets the road, so > that ought to be the place to hoist your app out of some existing > solution. This works especially well if you're transition from a JVM > soln (JRoR) to a JVM soln. > > Best wishes, > > --greg > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Timothy Perrett > <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote: > > > Greg, can I enquire to your specific use case? > I’d be interested to hear what you feel Jersey adds value to over > lift (im not familiar with Jersey)? > > In my experience when you need a round the houses solution such as > this their can often be a simpler path :-) > > Cheers, Tim > > > On 02/03/2009 22:46, "Viktor Klang" <viktor.kl...@gmail.com > <http://viktor.kl...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > hehe, no worries, I'm one of your fans. :) > > You should be able to accomplish this by having the filter > mapping for Jersey in web.xml placed before the Lift filter mapping: > > "Recall that a filter chain is one of the objects passed to the > doFilter method of a filter. This chain is formed indirectly via > filter mappings. The order of the filters in the chain is the > same as the order that filter mappings appear in the web > application deployment descriptor. " > > http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/Filters.html > > > The Jersey will handle the request first, then pass it thru to > Lift, then back. > I of course have not tested this with Jersey and do not know if > there are any strange things that can happen. > But I'm sure you'll find out and get back to us ;) > > > Cheers, > Viktor > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Meredith Gregory > <lgreg.mered...@gmail.com <http://lgreg.mered...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Marius, Viktor, > > Many thanks for your prompt responses. You'll have to pardon > me as i've not graduated from Web101 ;-). i was really > looking for an example. To illustrate, in looking at web.xml > in a archetype-generated lift project i see that only filter > and filter mapping is defined. How is a servlet then chosen? > > Also, i'm sort of interested in */wrapping/* lift's request > processing. Here's what i mean. If i've understood what > Jersey does correctly (and that's a big if), then it will do > Request and Response rendering. So, what i want is > > == HttpRequest ==> (JerseyFilter) == ModifiedRequest ==> > (LiftFilter) ==> Response == (JerseyFilter) ==> > ModifiedOutboundResponse ==> > > It's not clear to me how this is accomplished. There's the > dead obvious idea, but i'm leary that this won't work > because the "types" are unlikely to line up. > > Best wishes, > > --greg > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Viktor Klang > <viktor.kl...@gmail.com <http://viktor.kl...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Meredith Gregory > <lgreg.mered...@gmail.com > <http://lgreg.mered...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Lifted, scalads and lasses, > > Does anybody have a working sample of chaining the > lift servlet with a 3rd party servlet? i'm > interested in doing this with the Jersey servlet to > get some of their request/response rendering support. > > > This is why we made Lift a Filter :) > > > > > Best wishes, > > --greg > > > > > > > -- > L.G. Meredith > Managing Partner > Biosimilarity LLC > 806 55th St NE > Seattle, WA 98105 > > +1 206.650.3740 > > http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
