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Interface Target<T>

Type Parameters:

T - type of the interface this target applies to.

All Known Implementing Classes:

Target.EmptyTarget, Target.HardCodedTarget

public interface Target<T>

relationship to JAXRS 2.0

Similar to javax.ws.rs.client.WebTarget, as it produces requests. However, RequestTemplate is a closer match to WebTarget.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static class	Target.EmptyTarget<T>
static class	Target.HardCodedTarget<T>

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Request	apply(RequestTemplate input) Targets a template to this target, adding the base url and any target-specific headers or query parameters.
java.lang.String	name()
java.lang.Class<T>	type()
java.lang.String	url()

Method Detail

type

java.lang.Class<T> type()

name

java.lang.String name()

url

java.lang.String url()

apply

Request apply(RequestTemplate input)

Targets a template to this target, adding the base url and any target-specific headers or query parameters.

For example:

 public Request apply(RequestTemplate input) {
     input.insert(0, url());
     input.replaceHeader("X-Auth", currentToken);
     return input.asRequest();
 }
 

relationship to JAXRS 2.0

This call is similar to javax.ws.rs.client.WebTarget.request(), except that we expect transient, but necessary decoration to be applied on invocation.