Accessing HttpServletRequest from Restful webservice

[Balaji Sundararaju]

I'm trying to access HTTPServletRequest from Restful webservice. Please let me know on how to do it.

[Bear Bibeault]

Perhaps a little information on how you are implementing the API might be helpful, do you think?

If it's the Jersey project, there's a simple annotation (@Context) that will inject this into a field member.
[ December 19, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Peer Reynders]

Originally posted by Balaji Sundararaju:
I'm trying to access HTTPServletRequest from Restful webservice.

Why? Even with JAX-RS (Jersey) there is no guarantee that the web service is deployed inside a servlet container. Some of the equivalent functionality may be found elsewhere - but what specifically are you looking for?

[Balaji Sundararaju]

It is a JAX-RS (Jersey) project and I used the @Context annotation to get hold of the WebServiceContext object.

When I tried accessing the message context from the web service context object I'm getting null.

Please let me know what I'm missing here.

Below is the beans.xml I'm using

  
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:jaxrs="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
<a href="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans</a>
<a href="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd</a>
<a href="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs</a>
<a href="http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxrs.xsd">" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxrs.xsd"></a>
 
  <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml" />
  <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-jaxrs-binding.xml" />
  <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-jaxws.xml" /> 
  <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-servlet.xml" />
 
  <jaxrs:server id="shoppingbagservice" address="/">
    <jaxrs:serviceBeans>
      <ref bean="shoppingBean" />
    </jaxrs:serviceBeans>
  </jaxrs:server>
 
  <bean id="shoppingBean" class="com.limited.directmarketing.shoppingbag.appflow.ShoppingBagService" />
</beans>

[Peer Reynders]

Originally posted by Balaji Sundararaju:
It is a JAX-RS (Jersey) project

Looks to me that it actually is an Apache CXF JAX-RS project - which as far as I can tell has nothing to do with Jersey.

According to the JSR-311 API (JAX-RS) you should be able to get

javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo
javax.ws.rs.core.Request
javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders
javax.ws.rs.core.SecurityContext
javax.ws.rs.ext.Providers

from javax.ws.rs.core.Context

javax.xml.ws.WebServiceContext and javax.xml.ws.handler.MessageContext are JAX-WS objects that have no meaning in the JAX-RS context.
[ December 22, 2008: Message edited by: Peer Reynders ]

[Richard O'Shay]

CFX has nothing to do with Jersey with one exception: almost everything. The differences should be minuscule.