Using @Context, @Provider and ContextResolver in JAX-RS

Question

I\'m just getting acquainted with implementing REST web services in Java using JAX-RS and I ran into the following problem. One of my resource classes requires access to a s

Answer 1

If anyone is using Resteasy this is what worked for me.

If you add something like this:

ResteasyContext.pushContext(StorageEngine.class, new StorageEngine());

into something like a jaxrs filter, it allows you to do something like this:

@GET
@Path("/some/path")
public Response someMethod(@Context StorageEngine myStorageEngine) {
 ...
}

This is specific to Resteasy, which doesn't have something like SingletonTypeInjectableProvider.