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Ordering of REST end points in JAX RS

I have two REST end points, one to delete some data to all employees,and another to delete data for a specific employee by employee ID.

These are the two methods :

@Path("/{empId}/data")
@DELETE
public Response deleteEmpDataa(@PathParam("empId") final String empId) { }

@Path("/all/data")
@DELETE
public Response deleteAllData(){}

Now, when I want to delete all the employee data and make the query from postman chrome plugin

http://localhost/rest/mymapping/all/data

I expect it to call the second method deleteAllData. Instead it calls the first method with PathParam all.

Is this an ordering issue ? How do we fix this problem ?

Solution

  • You need to use RegEx pattern to your @Path that delete an employee by id. For example, if your employee id is always a number, you can try something like:

    @Path("/{empId:[0-9]*}/data")

    Since 'all' is not numerical, the second Rest pattern will be called.

    See: @Path and regular expression (Jersey/REST)