Can I add REST to my existing BlazeDS spring webservice?

Question

I have existing blazeDS web-services which need to be preserved as is for various legacy reasons.
I now have the need to expose the same functional services via a rest api and marshall the previous binary VOs via json.
I want to know if I can somehow use both @RemotingDestination and @RequestMapping at the same time on the same class? Have it cater to both request types?

Thanks

Answer 1

The easiest way to expose the same functionality to both REST and Blaze is to create a wrapper methods for the REST endpoint and have it proxy through to the original Blaze exposed method.

Simple Example assuming a simple GET:

@Service("userService")
@RemotingDestination(channels={"my-amf","my-secure-amf"})
public class UserService {

    @RemotingExclude
    @RequestMapping("/user/{id}", method=RequestMethod.GET)
    public String getUserByIdRest(@PathVariable String id) {
        return this.getUserById(id);
    }

    @RemotingInclude
    public String getUserById(String id) {
       //..
       return id;
    }
}