[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-516) Firing events with dynamic parameterized types

[Antonin Stefanutti (JIRA)]

Antonin Stefanutti created CDI-516:
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             Summary: Firing events with dynamic parameterized types
                 Key: CDI-516
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-516
             Project: CDI Specification Issues
          Issue Type: Feature Request
          Components: Events
            Reporter: Antonin Stefanutti


For the time being, either by using {{Event.select(...)}}, respectively {{BeanManager.fireEvent(...)}}, it is not possible to fire an event whose runtime type is a dynamic parameterized type, as specified in [The {{Event}} interface|http://docs.jboss.org/cdi/spec/1.2/cdi-spec.html#event]:
{quote}
If the container is unable to resolve the parameterized type of the event object, it uses the specified type to infer the parameterized type of the event types.

If the runtime type of the event object contains an unresolvable type variable, an {{IllegalArgumentException}} is thrown.
{quote}

Respectively in [Firing an event|http://docs.jboss.org/cdi/spec/1.2/cdi-spec.html#bm_fire_event]:
{quote}
If the runtime type of the event object contains a type variable, an {{IllegalArgumentException}} is thrown.
{quote}

While, it is possible to pass a {{TypeLiteral}} to the {{Event.select(...)}} method, e.g.:
{code}
@Inject
Event<Object> event;

event.select(new TypeLiteral<String>() {});
{code}
It is not possible to pass a type variable known at runtime as the {{TypeLiteral}} class relies on the declared type variable and does not permit to override that behavior as the {{TypeLiteral.getType()}} method is declared {{final}}.

Yet, there are use cases where that need is valid, for example:
{code}
<T> CdiEventEndpoint<T> cdiEventEndpoint(InjectionPoint ip, CamelContext context, @Any Event<Object> event) throws Exception {
    // Represents the runtime type for T
    Type type = ((ParameterizedType) ip.getType()).getActualTypeArguments()[0];
    String uri = endpointUri(type, ip.getQualifiers());
    if (context.hasEndpoint(uri) == null) {
        // Work around to pass the dynamic type
        TypeLiteral<T> literal = new TypeLiteral<T>() {};
        for (Field field : TypeLiteral.class.getDeclaredFields()) {
             if (field.getType().equals(Type.class)) {
                field.setAccessible(true);
                field.set(literal, type);
                break;
            }
        }
        // Here we used the dynamic type
        Event<T> typedEvent = event.select(literal, ip.getQualifiers().toArray(new Annotation[ip.getQualifiers().size()]));
        context.addEndpoint(uri, new CdiEventEndpoint<>(typedEvent, uri, context));
    }
    return CamelContextHelper.getMandatoryEndpoint(context, uri, CdiEventEndpoint.class);
}
{code}

In the example above, the {{TypeLiteral}} class could have a constructor taking the dynamic type as argument.

Another alternative would be to enrich the {{BeanManager}} SPI with the following method:
{code}
public void fireEvent(Object event, Type type, Annotation... qualifiers);
{code}



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