Blog from May, 2018

In 7.2.0, I'm adding support for POJO REST requests that don't include Accept and Media-Type headers.

Previously, if your requests did not contain Accept or Content-Type headers, you had to use Readers and Writers to work with the HTTP request and response bodies.  Otherwise you would get Not Acceptable (406) and Unsupported Media Type (415) response codes.  

This behavior is now being relaxed.  If your request does not contain media-type headers, then you can still used POJOs for requests and responses.

For example, this is a snippet from the Javadoc on the Body annotation describing the types of objects you can use in REST Java methods to represent the body of the request:

FYI....JUnit testcase results have been added to the Jenkins builds...

I'm adding the following classes to the juneau-rest-server module to allow you to unit test your REST resources without the need of running them in a servlet container:

Here's an example of it in use...

Instead of routing requests through a servlet container, it simply creates the RestContext object for the resource and calls the RestContext.getCallHandler().service(request, response); method with mocked-up ServletRequest and ServletResponse objects.

Here's what it looks like in expanded form:

In theory, everything should work identically to how it would behave in a servlet container, only faster and more efficient.

The MockRest object can also be used with the RestClient class to perform serverless client-side testing against REST resource classes:

This last feature is useful if you want to perform serverless unit testing of REST proxy interfaces.