How to create/build REST URI using form parameters

Question

okay so i have created restful webservice.now how to create a path for a user \"abc\".
Something like this

http://stackoverflow.com/user/abc

Answer 1

Use the @Path and @PathParam annotations:

@Path("/user/{uname}")
@PUT
@Consumes("text/plain")
public void putUser(@PathParam("uname") String uname, String password) {
  // ..
}

If you PUT to /user/joe with a body of s3cret, then uname will be joe and password will be s3cret.

I use PUT because the URL you want to use implies that the username is set by the client. /user is the collection resource of all users.

Edit: Since this method will change the server state by creating a new user, PUT or POST must be used. GET must not change the server state.