Question

I am creating restful web service and i wanted to know how do we create a service with input parameters and also how to invoke it from a web browser.

For example

@Path("/todo")
public class TodoResource {
    // This method is called if XMLis request
    @PUT
    @Produces( {MediaType.APPLICATION_XML,MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
    public Todo getXML() {
        Todo todo = new Todo();
        todo.setSummary("This is my first todo");
        todo.setDescription("This is my first todo");
        return todo;
    }

and i can invoke it using
http://localhost:8088/JerseyJAXB/rest/todo

and I want to create a method like

@Path("/todo")
    public class TodoResource {
        // This method is called if XMLis request
        @PUT
        @Produces( {MediaType.APPLICATION_XML,MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
        public Todo getXML(String x, String y) {
            Todo todo = new Todo();
            todo.setSummary(x);
            todo.setDescription(y);
            return todo;
        }

In case of soap based web services i would invoke it like this

http://localhost:8088/JerseyJAXB/rest/todo?x=abc&y=pqr

but I want to know how to invoke it using rest and also can I pass the parameters as I am doing in the above example when I use rest and jersey.

Answer 1

You can.
Try something like this:

@Path("/todo/{varX}/{varY}")
@Produces({"application/xml", "application/json"})
public Todo whatEverNameYouLike(@PathParam("varX") String varX,
    @PathParam("varY") String varY) {
        Todo todo = new Todo();
        todo.setSummary(varX);
        todo.setDescription(varY);
        return todo;
}

Then call your service with this URL;
http://localhost:8088/JerseyJAXB/rest/todo/summary/description