How to use

org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.delegates.LinkDelegate

constructor

addHeaderDelegateIfAbsent(Locale.class, new LocaleDelegate());
addHeaderDelegateIfAbsent(LinkHeader.class, new LinkHeaderDelegate());
addHeaderDelegateIfAbsent(javax.ws.rs.core.Link.class, new LinkDelegate());
addHeaderDelegateIfAbsent(Date.class, new DateDelegate());

  @Override
  protected boolean matchesSafely(String item) {
    return expected.equals(new LinkDelegate().fromString(item));
  }
};

addHeaderDelegateIfAbsent(Locale.class, new LocaleDelegate());
addHeaderDelegateIfAbsent(LinkHeader.class, new LinkHeaderDelegate());
addHeaderDelegateIfAbsent(javax.ws.rs.core.Link.class, new LinkDelegate());
addHeaderDelegateIfAbsent(Date.class, new DateDelegate());

for (Header linkHeader : linkHeaders) {
  for (String s : splitLinks(linkHeader)) {
    Link nextLink = new LinkDelegate().fromString(s);
    if (relation.equals(nextLink.getRel())) {
      String actualLinkUri = resolveIfRelative(requestUri, nextLink.getUri());

addHeaderDelegate(Locale.class, new LocaleDelegate());
addHeaderDelegate(LinkHeader.class, new LinkHeaderDelegate());
addHeaderDelegate(javax.ws.rs.core.Link.class, new LinkDelegate());
addHeaderDelegate(Date.class, new DateDelegate());

/**
 * Gets the first link from {@code response} with link relation {@code rel}.
 * Resolves relative URIs against the request URI if necessary.
 *
 * @param linkContext
 *            the context of the Link (usually the request URI, but can be
 *            changed with an anchor parameter)
 * @param relation
 *            the expected link relation
 * @param requestUri
 *            the HTTP request URI (for determing a Link's context and
 *            resolving relative URIs)
 * @param response
 *            the HTTP response
 * @return the first link or {@code null} if none was found
 * @see <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988">RFC 5988</a>
 */
protected String getFirstLinkForRelation(String linkContext, String relation, String requestUri, Response response) {
  List<Header> linkHeaders = response.getHeaders().getList(LINK);
  for (Header header : linkHeaders) {
    for (String s : splitLinks(header)) {
      Link l = new LinkDelegate().fromString(s);
      if (relation.equals(l.getRel()) &&
          linkMatchesContext(linkContext, requestUri, l)) {
        return resolveIfRelative(requestUri, l.getUri());
      }
    }
  }
  return null;
}