[ARIES-1964] Endpoint /services should be available without manually interaction

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: jax-rs-whiteboard-1.0.5
• Fix Version/s: jax-rs-whiteboard-1.0.8
• Component/s: jax-rs-whiteboard
• Assignee: Carlos Sierra Andrés
• Reporter: Markus Rathgeb
• Created: 12/Jan/20 21:44
• Updated: 14/Feb/20 17:55
• Resolved: 27/Jan/20 15:55

Description

The Aries JAX-RS Whiteboard implementation is using cxf internally (you know it much better than me).
 
If you create an endpoint for the path "/services" this will not work out of the box using the current implementation.
Instead of the endpoint you will get a response provided by cxf.
 
I identified that class: https://github.com/apache/cxf/blob/cxf-3.2.5/rt/transports/http/src/main/java/org/apache/cxf/transport/servlet/ServletController.java
 
So, the servlet context needs an init parameter with name "hide-service-list-page" that is set to "false".
 
To set the parameter the component that implements the REST application needs to contain a component property: servlet.init.hide-service-list-page=true
But IMHO the specific application component needs to be independent of the chosen implementation that provides the JAX-RS Whiteboard specification.
 
So, it should be possible to set "servlet.init.hide-service-list-page=true" for the Aries JAX-RS Whiteboard implementation only and that setting will be applied to all REST applications using that implementation.
 
I would also prefer if the value is default "true" and could be set to "false".
I don't think a user should need to configure something to get an endpoint "/services" working. It should work as for every other endpoint, too.
 
Offtopic:
Another default setting – see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-8190 – should IMHO be set: "replace.loopback.address.with.localhost=false"
I will create a separate issue dependent on the reaction of this one.