# Feign JAXRS 2 This module overrides annotation processing to instead use standard ones supplied by the JAX-RS specification. This is currently targeted at the 1.1 spec. ## Limitations While it may appear possible to reuse the same interface across client and server, bear in mind that JAX-RS resource annotations were not designed to be processed by clients. Moreover, JAX-RS 2.0 has a different package hierarchy for client invocation. Finally, JAX-RS is a large spec and attempts to implement it completely would be a project larger than feign itself. In other words, this implementation is *best efforts* and concedes far from 100% compatibility with server interface behavior. ## Currently Supported Annotation Processing Feign only supports processing java interfaces (not abstract or concrete classes). ISE is raised when any annotation's value is empty or null. Ex. `Path("")` raises an ISE. Here are a list of behaviors currently supported. ### Type Annotations #### `@Path` Appends the value to `Target.url()`. Can have tokens corresponding to `@PathParam` annotations. ### Method Annotations #### `@HttpMethod` meta-annotation (present on `@GET`, `@POST`, etc.) Sets the request method. #### `@Path` Appends the value to `Target.url()`. Can have tokens corresponding to `@PathParam` annotations. #### `@Produces` Adds all values into the `Accept` header. #### `@Consumes` Adds the first value as the `Content-Type` header. ### Parameter Annotations #### `@PathParam` Links the value of the corresponding parameter to a template variable declared in the path. #### `@QueryParam` Links the value of the corresponding parameter to a query parameter. When invoked, null will skip the query param. #### `@HeaderParam` Links the value of the corresponding parameter to a header. #### `@FormParam` Links the value of the corresponding parameter to a key passed to `Encoder.Text>.encode()`.