Question

I have defined GET method as described below:

@GET
@Produces("text/plain")
@Path("method/{id}/{value}")
public void method(@PathParam("ids") final String id, @PathParam("value") final String value) {}

It allows me to pass one id and value. How can I pass a bunch of pairs id/value to this method ?

Answer 1

one way to do it is to create your-own-protocol, something like this:

method/1,2,3,4,5,6,7/one,two,three,four,five,six,seven

and then, in your code parse the “protocol”:

public void method(@PathParam("ids") final String idStr, @PathParam("value") final String valueStr) {
    String[] ids = idStr.split(",");
    String[] values = valueStr.split(",");
}

but it pretty ugly

the second one is to use POST body, in that case you can’t use GET, and you should create a ValuesMapObject, that holds a map between each id to it value and send it from the client, in that case the function will be look like this:

@POST
@Produces("text/plain")
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
@Path("method/ids_and_values")
public void method(ValuesMapObject values) {}