[java] How to create a Restful web service with input parameters?

I am creating restful web service and i wanted to know how do we create a service with input parameters and also how to invoke it from a web browser.

For example

@Path("/todo")
public class TodoResource {
    // This method is called if XMLis request
    @PUT
    @Produces( {MediaType.APPLICATION_XML,MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
    public Todo getXML() {
        Todo todo = new Todo();
        todo.setSummary("This is my first todo");
        todo.setDescription("This is my first todo");
        return todo;
    }

and i can invoke it using http://localhost:8088/JerseyJAXB/rest/todo

and I want to create a method like

@Path("/todo")
    public class TodoResource {
        // This method is called if XMLis request
        @PUT
        @Produces( {MediaType.APPLICATION_XML,MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
        public Todo getXML(String x, String y) {
            Todo todo = new Todo();
            todo.setSummary(x);
            todo.setDescription(y);
            return todo;
        }

In case of soap based web services i would invoke it like this

http://localhost:8088/JerseyJAXB/rest/todo?x=abc&y=pqr

but I want to know how to invoke it using rest and also can I pass the parameters as I am doing in the above example when I use rest and jersey.

another way to do is get the UriInfo instead of all the QueryParam

Then you will be able to get the queryParam as per needed in your code

@GET
@Path("/query")
public Response getUsers(@Context UriInfo info) {

    String param_1 = info.getQueryParameters().getFirst("param_1");
    String param_2 = info.getQueryParameters().getFirst("param_2");


    return Response ;

}

Be careful. For this you need @GET (not @PUT).

You can try this... put parameters as :
http://localhost:8080/WebApplication11/webresources/generic/getText?arg1=hello in your browser...

package newpackage;

import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
import javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.DefaultValue;


import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PUT;
import javax.ws.rs.QueryParam;

@Path("generic")
public class GenericResource {

    @Context
    private UriInfo context;

    /**
     * Creates a new instance of GenericResource
     */
    public GenericResource() {
    }

    /**
     * Retrieves representation of an instance of newpackage.GenericResource

     * @return an instance of java.lang.String
     */
    @GET
    @Produces("text/plain")
    @Consumes("text/plain")
    @Path("getText/")
    public String getText(@QueryParam("arg1")
            @DefaultValue("") String arg1) {

       return  arg1 ;  }

    @PUT
    @Consumes("text/plain")
    public void putText(String content) {





    }
}

If you want query parameters, you use @QueryParam.

public Todo getXML(@QueryParam("summary") String x, 
                   @QueryParam("description") String y)

But you won't be able to send a PUT from a plain web browser (today). If you type in the URL directly, it will be a GET.

Philosophically, this looks like it should be a POST, though. In REST, you typically either POST to a common resource, /todo, where that resource creates and returns a new resource, or you PUT to a specifically-identified resource, like /todo/<id>, for creation and/or update.