Hi

Just FYI, this improvement has been implemented

thanks for your help
Sergey

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-3242



On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Gilgal Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sergey,
>
> Here is the response I got on [email protected] from Marc Hadley:
>
> I assume you are trying to describe a representation that contains a
> Boolean
> – right ?
>
> I think a better way to represent this would as follows:
>
> <representation mediaType=”text/plain”>
>  <param name=”result” type=”xsd:Boolean” style=”plain”/>
> </representation>
>
> It might be worth considering switching from text/plain to something with a
> bit more structure. E.g. you could use application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
> instead of a body of “true” you’d send back “result=true”. That little bit
> of extra structure will allow you to add additional information in the
> future with less chance of breaking (well written) clients. In that case
> you’d use style=”query” in the param element. Personally I’d use JSON or
> XML
> but I understand the urge to keep things simple.
>
> Marc.
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Sergey Beryozkin <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > sorry for a delay
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:38 PM, gilgal <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > When cxf generates my WADL I get references to objects in the grammar
> > > section, but if it is a primitive type it has a comment of what the
> > > primitive type is but no element attribute set.  Is there a way to get
> > what
> > > is in the comment into the element attribute of the representation tag?
> > >
> > Here are two examples.
> > > References the object in the grammar:
> > > <resource path="/optout/individual/{individualId}">
> > >
> > > <method name="GET">
> > > <request/>
> > > <response>
> > > <representation mediaType="application/xml"
> element="prefix1:indOptOut"/>
> > > <representation mediaType="application/json"/>
> > > </response>
> > > </method>
> > > </resource>
> > > Has only a comment that it is xs:boolean:
> > > <resource path="/ministering/remove/{unitNbr}/{individualId}">
> > >
> > >
> > > <method name="DELETE">
> > > <request/>
> > > <response>
> > > <!-- Primitive type : xs:boolean -->
> > > <representation mediaType="application/xml"/>
> > > <!-- Primitive type : xs:boolean -->
> > > <representation mediaType="application/json"/>
> > > </response>
> > > </method>
> > > </resource>
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Gil
> > >
> > >
> > This might be done in principle. I'm not sure though what it will mean.
> XML
> > schema does have datatypes such as xs:boolean, etc. But those datatypes
> are
> > meant to be used by schemas defining new custom (complex or simple) types
> > and elements, the XML ones. So if we have say a text/plain
> representation,
> > then saying that a it's of type xsd:
> >  integer for example, using @element attribute, seems a bit strange. But
> > may
> > be it could be just to do with reusing existing well-known datatypes, so
> >
> > <representation mediaType="text/plain" element="xsd:boolean"/>
> >
> > is kind of ok...
> > I'll think about it.
> > In meantime, if you could ask for some clarifications on the WADL list
> then
> > it would really help. Ask if using @element="xsd:boolean" for non xml
> > representations is acceptable
> >
> > thanks, Sergey
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > >
> >
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> > >
> >
>

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