If this were a GET request, I'd agree with Friso in questioning your need
for a polymorphic response. But since you're returning the result of a POST
operation, this should be a more reasonable, assuming A & B are also in the
same class hierarchy. If the two response types are completely disjoint,
then I'd question your approach.
And as Friso suggests, wrapping your objects in a Response is the right way
to go. Typically I've found making all resource methods return a Response
object offers a lot more flexibility, especially when you want to control
headers or handle error conditions.
Ryan-
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Friso Vrolijken <friso.vrolij...@caci.nl>wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> First I'd ask myself if I'd really want this. The basic idea behind REST
> is that you address a resource, for which you might have several
> representations. Does not sound like you're doing that.
>
> If you find that you indeed need to do that, I suppose the easiest
> solution would be to have your method return a Response.
>
> Something like:
> return Response.ok(A).build();
> or:
> return Response.ok(Bs).build();
>
> Would do the trick, assuming that A and B have known representations.
>
> Groeten,
>
> Friso
>
>
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Jason Novotny [mailto:jason.novo...@gmail.com]
> Verzonden: woensdag 14 augustus 2013 10:52
> Aan: resteasy-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Onderwerp: [Resteasy-users] handling polymorphic rest request
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using RESTeasy with jackson and making a rest POST that either
> returns an object of type A or returns a list of objects of type B. How can
> I handle both of these cases? Do I need to override
> org.jboss.resteasy.client.core.BaseClientResponse? Any example would be
> much appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Jason
>
>
>
>
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