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dabadaba
dabadaba

Reputation: 9522

How to use a web form with JAX-RS

I am new to JAX-RS and so far I have created a simple CRUD REST service for my model Entity which has some String and Float attributes.

Right now this is how I can create a new Entity:

@Path("/entities")
public class EntityController {
    @POST
    @Consumes({"application/json"})
    @Produces({"application/json"})
    public Entity createEntity(Entity entity) {
        if (EntityDAO.createEntity(entity) return entity,
        else return null;
    }
}

And this works just fine.

However, as I go forward into this API I would like to be able to make a simple form (in jsp I guess) to submit and create a new Entity.

I have seen some answers to similar problems here, here, here or here. However, as I am new to JAX-RS and web services actually, I cannot decipher what's going on.

I would like some help and I'd really appreciate if you could point out all the components that take part into the given solution in case I am missing an obvious step.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 702

Answers (1)

Alex Salauyou
Alex Salauyou

Reputation: 14348

Just use @FormParam to inject form data:

@POST
@Consumes("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
@Produces("...")
public Entity proceedForm(@FormParam("name") String name,
                          @FormParam("age") int age) {
    // ...
}

Upvotes: 1

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