Currently I've implemented that system providers and the ones located using
wink-application has the same low (0.1) priority.
It can be changed that system providers have 0.1 priority and
wink-application have 0.2 priority, while the default priority is 0.5.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Bryant Luk <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think there should be a clear distinction in Wink provider priority
> from default (system) providers versus user added ones (whether
> priority is defined as a tie-breaker or an override).
>
> For the ones added automatically via wink-providers,I would prefer
> somewhere in-between default system ones and explicitly user-added
> ones in the JAX-RS Application subclass and any other config
> registration system.  I think this would allow users to drop in
> wink-provider JARs if they want to override the defaults while still
> respecting the programmatic config.
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Michael Elman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Originally it was designed as a "tie-breaker".
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Michael Rheinheimer <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi team,
> >>
> >> We have a double 'priority' param that can be passed to some of the
> >> ProvidersRegistry.addProvider methods.  This is a non-spec key, thus a
> WINK
> >> feature.  Given that, I've been treating it as an "override" rather than
> a
> >> "tie-breaker" when sorting Provider priority.  For example, if a user
> >> specifies ContextResolver1 that @Produces("text/*") and a
> ContextResolver2
> >> that @Produces("text/xml") and adds them to the ProvidersRegistry as
> such:
> >>
> >> addProvider(ContextResolver1, 5);
> >> addProvider(ContextResolver2, 0);
> >>
> >> Even though ContextResolver2 would be a closer match for media type
> >> "text/xml", ContextResolver1 would be favored due to the higher declared
> >> priority.  Any thoughts on this?
> >>
> >> If we all agree, I think we have some work to do around supporting this
> >> priority feature;  making sure the user knows what the default system
> >> provider priority is, perhaps issuing warnings when the priority of
> their
> >> provider is the same as the system default or negative, adding tests,
> >> optimizing code paths in ProvidersRegistry, etc.
> >>
> >> Please see patch in WINK-193 (this being the more informative) and
> WINK-167
> >> (which is easier to see how the priority would be used as an override).
> >>
> >> Thanks..
> >> mike
> >
>
>
>
> --
>
> - Bryant Luk
>

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