[CXF-3380] JAX-RS: Support writing to DataSources

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.5, 2.5.1, 2.6
• Component/s: JAX-RS
• Assignee: Sergey Beryozkin
• Reporter: Glen Mazza
• Created: 06/Mar/11 21:52
• Updated: 23/Apr/12 16:45
• Resolved: 19/Mar/12 17:26

Description

CXF's JAX-RS implementation can presently read from but not write to data sources (javax.activation.DataSource). Provide an ability to write to data sources so we can code this way:

@Produces("image/jpg")
@GET
public DataSource getImageRep() {
URL jpgURL = this.getClass().getResource("myimage.jpg");
return new FileDataSource(jpgURL.getFile());
}

instead of something like this:

@Produces("image/jpg")
@GET
public InputStream getImageRep() {
FileInputStream fis = null;
try

{ URL jpgURL = this.getClass().getResource("myimage.jpg"); fis = new FileInputStream(new File(jpgURL.getPath())); }

catch (IOException e)

{ System.out.println("Couldn't find file!"); }

return fis;
}