Chapter 12. @Form

This is a RESTEasy specific annotation that allows you to re-use any @*Param annotation within an injected class. RESTEasy will instantiate the class and inject values into any annotated @*Param or @Context property. This is useful if you have a lot of parameters on your method and you want to condense them into a value object.

public class MyForm {

   @FormParam("stuff")
   private int stuff;


   @HeaderParam("myHeader")
   private String header;


   @PathParam("foo")
   public void setFoo(String foo) {...}
}



@POST
@Path("/myservice")
public void post(@Form MyForm form) {...}

When somebody posts to /myservice, RESTEasy will instantiate an instance of MyForm and inject the form parameter "stuff" into the "stuff" field, the header "myheader" into the header field, and call the setFoo method with the path param variable of "foo".