FYI:

Custom providers without @Provider annotation will have priority value javax.ws.rs.Priorities.USER (value 5000).

Also, Priority(100) > Prority(500), so provider with Priority(100) will be processed before provider with Priority(500).

More details can be found in the updated spec document, see change https://github.com/jax-rs/spec/commit/817c16fdf8cd8528041b7597bc19f4f7e010ec88 .

Regards,
Pavel

On 25/05/2017 16:54, Pavel Bucek wrote:

Hi Sergey, others,

you suggest that the exception mapper would be part of MVC spec (not the implementation, so not in javax.* package but more like org.impl.something.*?). I think that checking package name is fragile concept and should be avoided if possible, not to mention that this setup would be not ideal for MVC implementations.

I believe we shouldn't introduce new annotations whenever there is a need for a marker (which, in this case, can be easily defined without it); we already do have plenty of them..

Also, note that @Priority is not use to control what is excluded. It is used accordingly to what it is supposed to be used - to sort providers. JAX-RS implementation then needs to pick single one in most occasions and it will naturally pick more important one.

Since I believe we have working proposal (backed up by the implementation), let's stick to following:

- clarify what is built-in and user-defined provider using Santiagos definition:

if it is registered using the JAX-RS API or discovered via class scanning (i.e. annotated with @Provider), then it is user-defined regardless of their physical location (library, container, etc.). Built-in ones should not be made available using those mechanisms.

- define that user-defined providers will be sorted by the @Priority with respect to existing, already defined algorithms. That means it will influence which Provider is defined only when other conditions are already applied and more than one provider is equal in terms of the defined algorithm (i.e. exception type distance for ExceptionMappers).

Described change fits well in Java EE environment, since using @Provider is quite common among other specifications thus is already natural for majority of users.

Please let us know whether you have any strong objections or suggestions how to improve proposed rules.

Thanks and regards,
Pavel

On 25/05/2017 11:30, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:

I guess that what I also suggested when we talked with Christian about @DefaultProvider - the only problem from what I understood MVC will've been already released by the time JAX-RS 2.1 gets out.

To be honest, I'm still thinking, checking the origin (package) of the mapper can work. If for ex MVC ships its ExceptionMapper it is still a built-in mapper in context of MVC, and it can be identified to be a built-in one because it will be in a javax. namespace. Such providers should get a lower priority OOB (compared to the otherwise equal competing mappers), without having to depend on @Priority.

@Priority is there to sort the providers, making sure they execute in the right order. Using it as a mechanism to exclude does not seem quite right...Though it can work...

Cheers, Sergey