How to set custom object in body of message in cxf? - rest

Question

I have a REST webservice with method custom (GET).
#GET
#Path("/custom")
public UIResponse custom(final UIParameters uiParameters){...}
As you can see this method has one argument. This is my custom object.
Object UIParameters is built from argument given as query string.
eg. http://example.com/custom?objectType=article
UIParameters object will contain one field:
UIParameters {
String objectType = "article";
}
I have tried to use InInterceptor to get this parameter from URL, build UIParameter object and set Content of message. Unfortunatelly it doesn't work.
After that I've provide MessageBodyReader for UIParameters but it still doesn't work.
What should I do to achive this goal?
Thanks
Update:
In InInterceptor I've copied query string to http headers. Now part of URL where user place parameters is accessible in my MessageBodyReader. Here I can build my object UIParameters.
Everything works fine but I don't think that this solution is the best.
Does somebody know better solution?

Answer 1

AnnotationQueryParam("") allows to get all the query parameters injected.
You do not need an interceptor and it is not the recommended way. See CXF documentation http://cxf.apache.org/docs/jax-rs-basics.html#JAX-RSBasics-Parameterbeans
#GET
#Path("/custom")
public UIResponse custom(#QueryParam("") UIParameters uiParameters)
class UIParameters {
String objectType;
}
If you want to build the bean yourself using the query parameters use #Context UriInfo annotation
#GET
#Path("/custom")
public UIResponse custom( #Context UriInfo uriInfo){
MultivaluedMap<String, String> params = uriInfo.getQueryParameters();
new UIParameters().Builder()
.objectType(params.getFirst("type"))
.build();
}