In order to deal with different versions of a content-type i am trying to use the accept-parameters of the "Accept*" headers (RFC 2616).
Accept: application/vnd.mycompany.mytype;version=2 , application/vnd.mycompany.mytype;version=1;q=0.1
The problem is that Jax-RS annotations do not support Accept-parameters...
@GET
@Produces("application/vnd.test;version=1")
public Response test1() {
return Response.ok("Version 1", "application/vnd.test").build();
}
@GET
@Produces("application/vnd.test;version=2")
public Response test2() {
return Response.ok("Version 2", "application/vnd.test").build();
}
Results in a media type conflict exception:
Producing media type conflict. The resource methods public javax.ws.rs.core.Response test.resources.TestResource.test2() and public javax.ws.rs.core.Response test.resources.TestResource.test1() can produce the same media type
Maybe, this exception only related to my JAX-RS framework (Jersey), but i'm afraid this is due to the JSR311 which is not explicit about accept-parameters.
By now, i'm using content-types which holds the version within their names, but i found this solution pretty uggly.
@GET
@Produces("application/vnd.test-v1")
public Response test() {
return Response.ok("Version 1", "application/vnd.test-v1").build();
}
Do you have any ideas about how to deal with accept-parameters ?
EDIT
I think i wasn't clear enough. I want to automatically route the request to specific methods. These methods are versioned and correspond to a specific version of the returned content-type. JAX-RS current implementation prevents me to use accept-parameters to route the request (to the corresponding method).
greenkode suggest that i manage the version
accept-parameter within a dispatching method (using @HeaderParam("Accept")
).
This solution would end-up in re-writing the content negociation logic which is embeded in the framework (and described in JSR 311).
What can i do to use both accept-parameter and content-negociation logic from JAX-RS ?
Maybe a solution is to use another framework (I only worked with Jersey by Now). But i don't know which one.