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Re: CDI integration

Guillermo González de Agüero
 

Hi Pavel,

It's not currently doable right now with the standard APIs. My original proposal was to require the application server to do it in a vendor specific manner. WildFly already does it that way [1]. The work there would most probably fall on CDI integration implementations. That was to prevent changes to the JAX-RS api.

But there's also a standard way that would work, and that's marking annotating @Path with @Stereotype. Doing that will make CDI discover resources, without any more side effect I'm aware of. Should a future version decide resources should be request scoped, adding the @RequestScoped annotation to it will do the work.

JSF already did something pretty similar with Converters, but with the @Qualifier annotation [2].

Given how annotations work on Java, it wouldn't be a problem for non CDI users not having those annotations on the classpath; they will just not exist at runtime.

Do you think that's feasible?


Regards,

Guillermo González de Agüero.

[1] https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly/blob/master/jaxrs/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/jaxrs/deployment/JaxrsAnnotationProcessor.java#L48
[2] https://github.com/javaserverfaces/mojarra/blob/2fe586e0b9b23a11b9168b30610b2afadeecdb41/impl/src/main/java/javax/faces/convert/FacesConverter.java#L100

Guillermo González de Agüero

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Pavel Bucek <pavel.bucek@...> wrote:

Hello Guillermo,

ad "when running on a Java EE Application Server/when CDI is available, resources and providers MUST be available for CDI extensions to process it, just like if had a CDI bean defining annotation"

How that can be done? (yes, I'm looking for code example).

Thanks,
Pavel


On 25/05/2017 20:04, Guillermo González de Agüero wrote:
Hi,

Time is quickly running out, and I guess what the plans are regarding CDI alignment. There's an open issue [1] labeled as "2.1-candidate" but it seems no work has been done on that yet.

Given the time and resource limits the EG has, I propose to simply add a note to the spec saying that "when running on a Java EE Application Server/when CDI is available, resources and providers MUST be available for CDI extensions to process it, just like if had a CDI bean defining annotation", e.g.: providers and resources are discovered by the CDI runtime like any other bean, but *they don't need to be treated as beans*. That basically ressembled the behaviour offered by trimmed archives on CDI 2.0 [2].

What we gain with that? Users could easily create an extension to make all the resources @RequestScoped, while maintaining the spec clean (further integration would need more discussion). At the moment it's not possible to do that with CDI [3] and you have to mark all your classes as @Dependent (a practice that is not so uncommon [4]) or mark CDI bean discovery "all"/"trimmed".

How do you see it? Do you think it's viable at this time?
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