Hi
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:31 PM, [email protected]
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Sergey,
>
> thanks for the fast patch.
> I will try it on Thursday as I have not the right environment here
> currently.
>
> ok, thanks
> Also, JAXBElementProvider has a problem regarding lists of primitive types,
> like a list of strings, but I will report in more detail on Thursday, too.
>
> It's a known restriction and I'm not sure getting it working with
JAXBElementProvider is realistic. May be if we can agree on what it means to
process:
@Produces("application/xml")
public List<String> getList() {}
then we can do something about it.
> Another major issue:
> As we make extensively use of XmlJavaTypeAdapter, we realized that it is
> good supported in the data classes used for parameters / return values of
> web methods, but the support is not good when directly annotating
> parameters/return value of web methods with XmlJavaTypeAdapter itself:
>
> * for non-RESTful services, we solved the problem by using JAXB v2.2.2
> (maybe also earlier versions would work, but actually not that version
> delivered with CXF).
>
> * for RESTful services, XmlJavaTypeAdapter works as expected when applied
> for parameters, with following exceptions:
> **@PathParam refers to the BoundType, and not to the ValueType (so it e.g.
> tries to find a static valueOf() method in the BoundType); this actually
> makes no sense, and I think this bug is caused since the processing of
> PathParam normally not considers JAXB annotations, since JAXB is only one
> possible data binding for REST.
>
@PathParams refer to individual URI fragments, JAX-RS MessageBodyReaders are
not involved during processing PathParams...
> **Also lists do not work, as XmlJava TypeAdapter should be applied to the
> list items and not to the list object itself (there is no problem with
> non-RESTful services in this regard)
>
> Sure, this has to be fixed...
> So for the two exceptions, we had to use the ValueType directly in our REST
> methods, and (un)marshal them with the XmlAdapter "by hand".
>
>
> Is it possible to contribute some very useful code for testing of RESTful
> services (which should be also useful for non-testing purposes)? Saying
> this, I could provide test cases using this code, showing all of the above
> problems.
>
Yes, please, if you could provide some test cases then it will help...
Thanks, Sergey
