RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

A brief look at the ModelProcessor interface

The ModelProcessor interface has the following methods:

• processResourceModel(ResourceModel, Configuration): This method is invoked during deployment, right after parsing all the registered root resources. The ResourceModel parameter to this method comprises all the registered root resources. This method can have the logic to modify the REST resources before publishing them for use.
• processSubResource(ResourceModel, Configuration): This method is meant for processing the subresource model. Remember that when a request is handled by a subresource, the subresource class instance that handles the requests will be resolved only during runtime. Therefore, the processSubResource() method is invoked only ...