Restful Web Services - How to retrieve 10+ input params

Question

We can retrieve input params using different type of annotations like... @PathParam,@FormParam ..etc.

and in code,

public Customer getDetails(@FormParam("custNo") int no) {

But what if i have 10+ values in the input form ? is there any other way ? I have searched in Google but all the time i am seeing @PathParams and @FormParams. Can we bind all input form values into some object and retrieve ?

Thank you Siva

Answer 1

Yes, starting with Jersey 2.0 you can use the @BeanParam annotation to wrap a bunch of parameters in a Java bean. Example:

public class CustomerDetails {
    @FormParam("custNo")
    public int customerNumber;
    @FormParam("whatevs")
    public String whatever;

}

public Customer getDetails(@BeanParam CustomerDetails customer) {
   // ...
}

Documentation: https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.6/jersey/javax/ws/rs/BeanParam.html

Related question: How do you map multiple query parameters to the fields of a bean on Jersey GET request?