JAX-RS #PathParam to inject in class member variable? - rest

Question

I want to do something like this:
#Stateless
#Path("/sensors/{sensorid}/version")
#Consumes({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.TEXT_XML})
#Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.TEXT_XML})
public class SensorVersionRestView extends VersionRestView{
#PathParam("sensorid")
private String sensorid;
#GET
#Path("count")
// so the complete path is i.e.
// domain.com/rs/sensors/111211/version/count
public void getCount() {
// do something with the sensorId....
}
}
But the only thing I get is null on runtime (I use Glassfish v3 with Jersey). The compiler and eclipse never mentions a problem with the #PathParam at the member class variable.
What's wrong with my construct?
The main problem is, why I doesn't want to use the whole path on each method in this class, that there exists another class which handles some rest operations on the sensor layer (deomain.com/rs/sensors/count i.e.)

Answer 1

I believe you need to change it to this:
#Stateless
#Path("/sensors/{sensorid}/version")
public class SensorVersionRestView extends VersionRestView {
#GET
#Path("count")
#Consumes({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.TEXT_XML})
#Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.TEXT_XML})
// domain.com/rs/sensors/111211/version/count
public void getCount(#PathParam("sensorid") String sensorid) {
// do something with the sensorId....
}
}

Answer 2

Because injection occurs at object
creation time, use of this annotation
on resource class fields and bean
properties is only supported for the
default per-request resource class
lifecycle. Resource classes using
other lifecycles should only use this
annotation on resource method
parameters. - JSR-311 Javadocs
You should be able to annotate fields with #PathParam as long as the resource class lifecyle is per-request. By default the life-cycle of root resource classes is per-request.
EDIT: I don't think you can achieve this using EJBs. If you remove the #Stateless annotation, it should work.