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

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JUNEAU-131?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

James Bognar closed JUNEAU-131.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Implemented in 9.0.0

> REST annotations need type() annotation.
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>
>                 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
>            Priority: Major
>
> 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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