18 Jan
2010
18 Jan
'10
10:56 a.m.
On Jan 16, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote:
Hi Guys (and Fabio in particular),
I've struggled a bit to have a REST client written with Httpclient and Jaxb. The
micro sample on the wiki
(http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/XWikiRESTfulAPI) was not correct (the
parameter to JAXBContext.newInstance was wrong) and there was no example for some other
calls than GET a wiki page.
Finally when you write a sample using maven and jaxb you need the JAXB model and this
makes your maven dependency need the whole xwiki core as you need xwiki-rest.
We should separate xwiki-rest-jaxb model in a separate JAR that does not have other
depencies than JAXB and provide a maven sample which is easy to customize.
WDYT ?
Yes definitely.
At the beginning JAXB was just used as a convenient way for serializing/deserializing XML
on the server side (since Restlet-JAX-RS supports it out of the box). But indeed it is
useful also on the client side if a client wants to use JAXB to handle XML
representations, so a module that contains only the JAXB model is surely desirable.
Is xwiki-rest-jaxb a good name for it?
WDYT?
-Fabio