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RESTful Java Web Services, Second Edition

You're reading from   RESTful Java Web Services, Second Edition Design scalable and robust RESTful web services with JAX-RS and Jersey extension APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399092
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jobinesh Purushothaman Jobinesh Purushothaman
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Preface 1. Introducing the REST Architectural Style FREE CHAPTER 2. Java APIs for JSON Processing 3. Introducing the JAX-RS API 4. Advanced Features in the JAX-RS API 5. Introducing the Jersey Framework Extensions 6. Securing RESTful Web Services 7. The Description and Discovery of RESTful Web Services 8. RESTful API Design Guidelines A. Useful Features and Techniques Index

Understanding data binding rules in JAX-RS

While injecting variable values from the URI path and the query parameter into the resource class or mapping the request-response entity body with the Java types, the JAX-RS runtime follows certain rules for the Java types present in the resource class. We will discuss this topic in this section.

Mapping the path variable with Java types

At runtime, the framework automatically detects and copies the parameter values present in the inbound request into the appropriate Java types on the basis of the following rules:

JAX-RS allows you to use @QueryParam and @PathParam on the following Java types:

  • All primitive types such as short, int, float, double, and Boolean, except char.
  • All the wrapper classes of primitive types, such as short, integer, BigDecimal, and Boolean, except char.
  • All classes with a constructor that accepts a single string type argument. In this case, you can define your own class with a single string type constructor and use it as a method...
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