com.sun.ws.rest.api
Annotation Type HttpMethod

@Target(value=METHOD)
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
public @interface HttpMethod

Indicates that the annotated Java method should be used to handle HTTP requests. Annotated methods must satisfy the following constraints:

• Methods must have a return type of void, Representation<T>, T or HttpResponse. Return values will be serialized in the HTTP response entity body.
• Methods may have a single optional parameter of type Entity<T>
. The parameter provides access to the contents of the HTTP request entity body. The parameter will be null if the HTTP request entity body is of zero length.
• Methods may have zero or more additional method arguments, each of which must be annotated with either @UriParam, @HeaderParam, @MatrixParam or @QueryParam

See Also:

Representation, UriParam, QueryParam, MatrixParam, HeaderParam

Optional Element Summary

java.lang.String

value Specifies the name of a HTTP method.

value

public abstract java.lang.String value

Specifies the name of a HTTP method. E.g. "GET". If not specified the name of the annotated method must begin with one of the method constants (in lowercase). E.g.

 @HttpMethod
 public void deleteSomething()

is equivalent to

 @HttpMethod(DELETE)
 public void deleteSomething()

Default:

""