[ADD] RESTXQ: added %restxq:http-method() analogous to javax.ws.rs.HttpMethod

[dimitarp]

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[ChristianGruen]

What's the main motivation for adding this annotation? Is it e.g. required for custom WebDAV methods?

[dimitarp]

Yes, the main motivation is implementing the WebDAV server using RESTXQ. Another reason is that the JAX-RS API also provides this annotation, and RESTXQ claims to be based upon it.

[ChristianGruen]

Sounds reasonable! Let’s see if this will be discussed in the EXQuery issue tracker (#22).

[ChristianGruen]

I now tend to rename the annotation to %rest:method, because (as I get it) the JAX-RS annotation @HttpMethod has initially been introduced to define custom annotations (as e. g. shown here). Beside that, the rest prefix avoids conflicts with competing annotations.