Accessing the body of a post RESTful request

I can completely read a post request (headers + raw body) using com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer with an HttpHandler for it.

But I can't do the same using a javax.xml.ws.WebServiceProvider I can read the headers, but I need the raw body data in the开发者_StackOverflow社区 request be it plain text, xml, or data-bytes. An InputStreamReader would be OK.

   @ServiceMode(value = javax.xml.ws.Service.Mode.MESSAGE) 
    @WebServiceProvider
    @BindingType(value = HTTPBinding.HTTP_BINDING) 
    public class MyRestHandler 
    implements Provider<Source> {

       @Resource
       protected WebServiceContext wsContext; // injected


       public Source invoke(Source source) {

          /* source happens to be null except for text/xml BODY type
           * in the incoming request.
           * In this case, source is a SAXSource*/

       }

    }

Addendum (after Peter Knego observation)

In Java Web Services pages 126-138, the author presents a RESTful webservice example where JAX-WS is used:

@ServiceMode(value = javax.xml.ws.Service.Mode.MESSAGE) 
@WebServiceProvider
@BindingType(value = HTTPBinding.HTTP_BINDING) 
public class RestfulTeams 
        implements Provider<Source> {  ... }

Even, in page it 136-137 it extends it to support the POST method, accessing the body of the request. Clearly, it works with the JAX-WS library classes because it uses xml in the body request. Now I understand your surprise, and why source is always null but for text/xml bodies. Really, the easiest way was to use the JAX-RS library.

Use a JAX-RS implementation, Jersey for instance. Book: RESTful Java