[Douglas M Hurst]

I completed the RESTful web service tutorial …

Developing JAX-RS / REST Web Services

… and it worked just fine… as far as it went. Is the intent that you communicate with RESTful WS’s with http requests from Javascript? Such as…

Microsoft: xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject(“Microsoft.XMLHTTP”);
Other browsers: xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();

????

With the JAX-WS tutorial, there was also a WS client that was built. Not so with this RESTful tutorial.

In particular, I’m wondering how you would send an “add” request to the tutorial example. A listing of customers was…

http://localhost:8080/services/customers

…to list all customers and…

http://localhost:8080/services/customers/<int&gt;

… to list a specific customer. It appears from the annotations…

@POST
@Path(“add”)
@Produces(“text/plain”)
@Consumes(“application/xml”)

…that it should be something like…

http://localhost:8080/services/customers/add/&lt; customer xml>

… an example of which seems like it ought to look like…

http://localhost:8080/services/customers/add/<customer><name>Bill Adama</name><address>Vancouver, Canada</address></customer>

… but I was not able to get this to work. I guess in all cases you need to have a listener in your Javascript to receive the output?

Thanks

[Brian Fernandes]

Douglas,

With the JAX-WS tutorial, there was also a WS client that was built. Not so with this RESTful tutorial.

We hear you, this is something we are looking at internally.

As far as adding a customer, note that the method has a @POST annotation, it’s expecting the data as HTTP Post content, not in the URL itself.
So you would send a request to “http://localhost:8080/services/customers/add&#8221;, and the Post data would be

<customer><name>Bill Adama</name><address>Vancouver, Canada</address></customer>

The above content should be used as a parameter the send method of your XMLHttpRequest object. This snippet should help:

xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/xml");
xmlhttp.send("<customer><name>Bill Adama</name><address>Vancouver, Canada</address></customer>");

Hope this helps.

[Douglas M Hurst]

Yes it does, thank you very much.

[Douglas M Hurst]

That worked. Of course you’d want to set up a function to evaluate the response… which I didn’t do either.

var objHTTP, strResult;
var element = document.getElementById(‘inputId’);
var inputXml = element.value;
var myHttp = “http://localhost:8080/restdemo/services/customers/add&#8221;;
objHTTP = new ActiveXObject(‘Microsoft.XMLHTTP’);
objHTTP.open(‘POST’, myHttp, false);
objHTTP.setRequestHeader(‘Content-Type’,’application/xml’); // request monitoring function here
objHTTP.send(inputXml);

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