[jira] [Created] (JUNEAU-131) REST annotations need type() annotation.

["James Bognar (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

James Bognar created JUNEAU-131:
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             Summary: REST annotations need type() annotation.
                 Key: JUNEAU-131
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JUNEAU-131
             Project: Juneau
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: Code
    Affects Versions: 8.1.0
            Reporter: James Bognar


Because Spring uses CGLIB which recompiles classes at runtime (ugh), and since CGLIB was written before Java annotations were around and is an unsupported library (ugh #2), if you expose the following REST method as a Spring bean, the generics information in the following information get stripped and we can no longer determine that we should parse a list of beans:
{{}}{{@RestMethod}}
{{public void postFoo(@Body List<MyBean> beans) \{...}}}

The behavior is that we'll end up creating a list of ObjectMaps which will almost always result in a ClassCastException when you try to interact with the list.

To help alleviate this issue, we can introduce an annotation to explicitly specify the parsed type:

{{@RestMethod}}
{{public void postFoo(@Body(type=\{List.class,MyBean.class}) List<MyBean> beans) \{...}}}



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