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Extract request parameters - Java EE Tutorial
From the course: Java EE 7: Web Services
Extract request parameters
- [Instructor] Let's learn how to extract information from the request. The following types of parameters can be extracted for use in the Resource class. Query parameters, URI path parameters, form elements, cookies, headers, and a matrix. Let's discuss the URI path parameter in more detail, and then see it in action. URI path parameters indicated by the @PathParam annotation are extracted from the URI of the request, and essentially injects the value of the parameter into the method. Here's a tip. You can inject multiple parameters into a Java method using a format similar to what's below. Simply list each path parameter separated by a forward slash. I've opened IntelliJ and navigated to the ApplicationResource.java file. On line 33, the getApplication resource method demonstrates returning an application. For now, we have the data hard-coded, but that will soon change. If you notice here on line 32, we are using the @Path annotation at the method level. The @Path annotation on this…
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