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Chapter 43. Guice 2.0 Integration

43.1. Configuring Stage

RESTEasy has some simple integration with Guice 2.0. RESTEasy will scan the binding types for a Guice Module for @Path and @Provider annotations. It will register these bindings with RESTEasy. The guice-hello project that comes in the RESTEasy examples/ directory gives a nice example of this.

@Path("hello")
public class HelloResource
{
   @GET
   @Path("{name}")
   public String hello(@PathParam("name") final String name) {
      return "Hello " + name;
   }
}

First you start off by specifying a JAX-RS resource class. The HelloResource is just that. Next you create a Guice Module class that defines all your bindings:

import com.google.inject.Module;
import com.google.inject.Binder;

public class HelloModule implements Module
{
    public void configure(final Binder binder)
    {
       binder.bind(HelloResource.class);
    }
}

You put all these classes somewhere within your WAR WEB-INF/classes or in a JAR within WEB-INF/lib. Then you need to create your web.xml file. You need to use the GuiceResteasyBootstrapServletContextListener as follows


<web-app>
    <display-name>Guice Hello</display-name>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>resteasy.guice.modules</param-name>
        <param-value>org.jboss.resteasy.examples.guice.hello.HelloModule</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <listener>
        <listener-class>
            org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.guice.GuiceResteasyBootstrapServletContextListener
        </listener-class>
    </listener>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher
        </servlet-class>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

GuiceResteasyBootstrapServletContextListener is a subclass of ResteasyBootstrap, so you can use any other RESTEasy configuration option within your web.xml file. Also notice that there is a resteasy.guice.modules context-param. This can take a comma delimited list of class names that are Guice Modules.

You can configure the stage Guice uses to deploy your modules by specific a context param, resteasy.guice.stage. If this value is not specified, Resteasy uses whatever Guice's default is.


<web-app>
    <display-name>Guice Hello</display-name>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>resteasy.guice.modules</param-name>
        <param-value>org.jboss.resteasy.examples.guice.hello.HelloModule</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>resteasy.guice.stage</param-name>
        <param-value>PRODUCTION</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <listener>
        <listener-class>
            org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.guice.GuiceResteasyBootstrapServletContextListener
        </listener-class>
    </listener>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher
        </servlet-class>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>