I am working on a project and would like to expose some REST services. The technologies used are RestEasy, EJB and JPA/Hibernate. I have structured my app so that there is a clear delimitation between the service layer and model layer. A typical service that retrieves data from the database have a signature like this: getWhateverList(idForWhichTheListWillBeRetrieved, start) - so pretty basic. What I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around is how to bring together the stiffness of the service layer with the flexibility of the REST layer. Say for example that I would like a typical GET method producing a JSON array support operations like:filtering - use a query param to get, for example items that have a property of type date greater/lower than the param that I providesorting - REST API should support asc or desc limiting the fields that are returned from the GET operationHow would one go about designing this?
Designing the bridge between REST layer to service layer
design;architecture;rest