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JAX-RS Services Description

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Swagger

Swagger-First Development

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Please see the Swagger2Feature page for more information

WADL

 


CXF JAX-RS supports (Web Application Description Language|http://www.w3.org/Submission/wadl] (WADL).
Users can use WADL documents to generate the initial code and have WADL auto-generated on demand.

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wadl2java -p <package-name> -sp <[schema-namespace =]package-name>* 
          -tMap <schema-type = java-type>* -repMap <media-type = java-type>*
          -resource <resource-name> -b <binding-file-name>* -catalog <catalog-file-name> 
          -d <output-directory> -compile -classdir <compile-classes-directory> -interface -impl 
          -noTypes -inheritResourceParams -generateEnums -supportMultipleXmlReps -javaDocs
          -generateResponseIfHeadersSet -generateResponseForMethods<methodNames>* -async<methodNames>* -xjc<xjc-arguments>* 
          -rx <library> -authentication <name:password> -validate -h -v -verbose -quiet <wadl>

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'generateResponseForMethods' and 'generateResponseIfHeadersSet' - from 2.7.12/3.0.0, 'validate' - from 2.7.13/3.2.0/3.1.0, 'javaDocs' - from 3.1.4, 'authentication' - from 3.1.14/3.2.1, 'rx' - from 3.2.13/3.3.6.

The options are reviewed in the following table.

Option

Interpretation

-?,-h,-help

Displays the online help for this utility and exits.

-p PackageName

Specifies the package name of root resource classes

-sp [ schema-namespace= ] PackageName

Specifies one or more package names corresponding to individual schema namespaces

-resource RootResourceName

Specifies a full name of root resource class if WADL contains a single resource

-interface

Default option unless -impl option is used - Java interfaces with JAX-RS annotations are generated

-impl

Generates starting implementation code. Can also be used with -interface option

-noTypes

Requests that no schema generation is needed. Can also be used with -tMap option

-tMap schema-type=java-type

Provides mapping between schema elements and java types

-repMap media-type=java-type

Provides mapping between media types and java types

-b binding-name

Specifies JAXB binding files. Use multiple -b flags to specify multiple entries.

-catalog catalog-file-name

Specifies catalog file to map referenced wadl/schemas

-d output-directory

Specifies the directory into which the generated code files are written.

-compile

Compiles generated Java files.

-classdir compile-class-dir

Specifies the directory into which the compiled class files are written.

-noVoidForEmptyResponses

Generate JAX-RS Response instead of 'void' for methods with no response representations.

-inheritResourceParams

Get current resource-level path or matrix parameters added to generated methods for all descendant resources.

-generateEnums

Generates Java enums for parameters with options.

-supportMultipleXmlReps

Generates separate method for every XML representation in a single WADL request element.

-javaDocsConverts WADL doc elements into JavaDocs
-generateResponseIfHeadersSetGenerates JAX-RS Response method response type if  WADL response element for a given method has 'header' parameters
-generateResponseForMethods methodNamesGenerates JAX-RS Response method response type, methodNames is a comma-separated list of WADL method name or id attributes

-async methodNames

Adds JAX-RS 2.0 AsyncResponse parameter to generated methods, methodNames is a comma-separated list of WADL method name or id attributes

-authentication

Specifies a colon separated user name and password for retrieving the remote WADL content from the servers requiring the authentication

-xjc<xjc args>

Specifies a comma separated list of arguments that are passed directly to the XJC processor, example -xjc-Xts.

-rx <library>

Specifies the use of the JAX-RS 2.1 reactive extensions for generating method signatures.

The supported <library> values are:

  • java8
-validateValidate a WADL document against the WADL schema

wadlurl

The path and name of the WADL file to use in generating the code.

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In some cases, example when describing JSON arrays, you may want to have an explicit collection of types defined in schema generated. In this case use -tMap or -repMap option with a value such as "List..MyType".

 The reactive extensions support is limited to Java 8 standard library APIs only, which essentially means CompletionStage / CompletableFuture are supported at the moment. Please note that the void / one-way methods are not generated with CompletionStage / CompletableFuture and kept unchanged.

JAXB customizations

At the moment it is possible to apply external JAXB customizations to WADL grammars however it is not possible yet to restrict a given customization to a specific WADL document or explicitly inlined schema. Linking binding to external schemas works, for example, the following bindings file can be used:

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WADL documents can include doc fragments.

Users may want to use Description annotations which can be attached to resource classes and methods.

Note that starting from CXF 2.4.0, Description annotations can be applied to input parameters. Additionally, a method-level Descriptions annotation can have a collection of categorized Description annotations, with each Description targeting a specific WADL element by setting its 'target' property to one of the DocTarget values. For example, one can use a Descriptions annotation to document the response representation of a particular resource method, as well as add documentation fragments to WADL wadl:method/wadl:request and wadl:method/wadl:response elements:

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  • applicationTitle: can be used to create an application title.
  • namespacePrefix: defaut is 'prefix', it can be set to other value such as 'ns'.
  • ignoreForwardSlash: can be used to enforce that resource path values do not start from '/'
  • addResourceAndMethodIds: WadlGenerator will add "id" attributes to wadl:resource and wadl:method elements

An ElementClass annotation can help with representing JAX-RS Response elements in the generated WADL.

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If no JAXB is used then you can attach an XMLName annotation to method input or output types. Alternatively, you can register an instance of ElementQNameResolver with the WadlGenerator which will be used for creating wadl:representation/@element values.

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Starting from CXF 2.6.2 it is possible to affect the base address specified in the auto-generated WADL (in wadl:resources/@base attribute).
WADLGenerator can be indirectly configured by setting a jaxrs:server/@publishedEndpointUrl attribute, similarly to the way CXF WSDL generator can be configured by setting a jaxws:endpoint/@publishedEndpointUrl attribute. 


java2wadl Maven plugin

CXF 3.0.0 and 2.7.11 introduce java2wadl plugin for generating WADL at the build time:

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