How to wire in a collaborator into a Jersey resource?

Question

I have a method to start up my application:

public void start() throws IOException {
    final Map initParams = new HashMap

        

Answer 1

If you're comfortable using spring, then the best way is to use the jersey spring api module (installed as an additional dependency). It's released in lockstep with Jersey.

The javadoc page has a decent example to get you started.

Answer 2

You can implement InjectableProvider. For example:

@Provider
public class FooProvider
    implements InjectableProvider<Resource, Type> {

    public ComponentScope getScope() {
        return ComponentScope.PerRequest;
    }

    public Injectable getInjectable(ComponentContext ic, Resource resource, Type type) {
        return new Injectable() {
            public Object getValue() {
                return new Foo();
            }
        };
    }
}

and then annotate field in your resource:

@Resource private Foo foo;