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Provides an interface implementable by JAX-RS implementations that allows to forward a request to an instance of a root resource class.

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package org.apache.clerezza.jaxrs.extensions;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

/**
 * This class extends {@link javax.ws.rs.core.Response} to contain a reference to
 * the method generating this response (or an object wrapped therein) so that an
 * implementation can base selection of the MessageBodyWriter 
 * basing on annotations/declared return type of this method.
 *
 * @author rbn
 */
public abstract class MethodResponse extends Response {

    /**
     * Return the method generating the response or the entity wrapped therein.
     *
     * @return the method
     */
    public abstract Method getGeneratingMethod();
}