Passing parameter in Restful webservices - web-services

Question

Dear Stackoverflow users,
I have been playing around with restful webservice for quite a while now.
I have a small doubt in how to pass a parameter using GET method.
As get can only be used to retrieve any resources, how is it possible to pass parameter.
I have written a small code for this, but there seem to be something wrong with the code.
#GET
#Produces("text/plain")
#Path("/instrumentname/")
public String getname(String name1) {
try {
String [] env=null;
String[]callAndArgs= {"python","connection.py",ins_name};//passing the parameters
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(callAndArgs,env,
new java.io.File("C:\\Users\\Balkishore\\Documents\\NetBeansProjects\\Testinstrument_Rest\\build\\web"));//excuting the python file
BufferedReader stdInput = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));//getting the input
BufferedReader stdError = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(p.getErrorStream()));//getting the error
interface_name = stdInput.readLine();//reading the output
System.out.println(interface_name);
}
catch (IOException e) {//catching the exception
System.out.println("exception occured");
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(-1);
}
return this.interface_name;
}
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks a ton in advance.
Cheers!

Answer 1

you just need to concatenate parameters at the end of the URL in following format:
www.xyz.com/?param1=val1&param2=val2&param3=val3
where param1, param2 are parameter names and val1,val2 are values for the corresponding parameters... You can just type them in a browser's URL bar instead of writing an HTML page or a script for testing...
Also, you are right in saying that GET is Generally used to fetch resources from a web server, but at times you have to pass information whose resource has to be fetched...