[cdi-dev] Managing Dependent Scoped Beans

Romain Manni-Bucau rmannibucau at gmail.com
Mon May 16 05:23:35 EDT 2016


I agree with you bit also the default should be smoother. Just trying to
have side by side 2 confusing methods.

Like the AutoCloseable idea btw.
Le 16 mai 2016 11:20, "Martin Kouba" <mkouba at redhat.com> a écrit :

> Dne 16.5.2016 v 11:08 Romain Manni-Bucau napsal(a):
>
>>
>> Le 16 mai 2016 10:42, "Martin Kouba" <mkouba at redhat.com
>> <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com>> a écrit :
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Dne 16.5.2016 v 10:36 Romain Manni-Bucau napsal(a):
>>  >
>>  >> I see, thks.
>>  >>
>>  >> I dont like having 2 methods with the same semantic there but agree
>> the
>>  >> default is misleading for such cases.
>>  >>
>>  >> 1. Cant we change the default? looks like current one can break apps
>> if
>>  >> misunderstood and not sure changing it is worse.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > I think we cannot due to backward compatibility.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >>
>>  >> If not
>>  >>
>>  >> 2. Maybe we can type the returned type with a release method in the
>>  >> instance  wrapper instead of enriching Instance API making it
>> contextual
>>  >> by nature?: w=instance...get();w.getValue().work();w.release(/*no
>> param*/);
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Sorry, I don't get it. Do you want to change Instance.get() signature
>> and return some kind of wrapper? A simple snippet might help.
>>  >
>>
>> Yes get a method to have the wrapper to manage a single instance:
>>
>> @Inject Instance i;
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Wrapper w = i.getSelected();
>> ...
>> w.getValue().businessmetd();
>> ...
>> w.release();
>>
>
> Well, we could introduce a new wrapper and even make is AutoCloseable,
> e.g. something like discussed here:
> http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/cdi-dev/2016-May/008241.html
>
> But still you would have to distinguish between destroy() and release().
> My original proposal was to allow a user to inspect the Bean metadata, see
> also https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-515. But guys convinced me ;-)
>
>
>>  >>
>>  >> That is what most framework did finally to integrate with CDI so looks
>>  >> natural.
>>  >>
>>  >> Le 16 mai 2016 10:23, "Martin Kouba" <mkouba at redhat.com
>> <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com>
>>  >> <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com>>> a écrit :
>>  >>
>>  >>     Dne 16.5.2016 v 10:20 Romain Manni-Bucau napsal(a):
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >>         Le 16 mai 2016 10:01, "Martin Kouba" <mkouba at redhat.com
>> <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com>
>>  >>         <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com>>
>>  >>         <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com>
>> <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com>>>> a écrit :
>>  >>
>>  >>           >
>>  >>           > Dne 15.5.2016 v 16:14 John D. Ament napsal(a):
>>  >>           > > Hey guys
>>  >>           > >
>>  >>           > > Seems like we have some issues in JIRA all focused on
>>  >>         managing the
>>  >>           > > lifecycle of Dependent scoped beans.  It also seems like
>>  >>         we have many
>>  >>           > > differing opinions about how to manage them.
>>  >>           > >
>>  >>           > > - Martin raised a PR to add a release() method to
>> Instance
>>  >>         to help
>>  >>           > > destroy a dependent bean
>>  >> https://github.com/cdi-spec/cdi/pull/286
>>  >>           > > - I raised a PR
>> https://github.com/cdi-spec/cdi/pull/289
>>  >>         to update the
>>  >>           > > spec to clarify how to manage a dependent scoped bean.
>>  >>           > >
>>  >>           > > Right now, it seems that the big disagreement is whether
>>  >>           > > Instance.destroy() can destroy objects not created by it
>>  >>         (the case
>>  >>         being
>>  >>           > > around the CDI utility class, being an impl of
>> Instance).  I'm
>>  >>         currently
>>  >>           > > heavily against Martin's proposed changes, but want to
>> get
>>  >>         input from
>>  >>           > > others on the group to understand their perspective.
>>  >>           > >
>>  >>           > > - Does the spec require destroy() to be called only on
>>  >>         instances
>>  >>         that it
>>  >>           > > created?  When I read 5.6.1 the only requirement I see
>> is
>>  >>         that it
>>  >>         has to
>>  >>           > > be a dependent scoped bean.  Note when I ask this I'm
>>  >>         asking from the
>>  >>           > > spec perspective, its a different problem if there's
>> some
>>  >>         issues with
>>  >>           > > implementations following suite (I would imagine there
>>  >>         needs to be some
>>  >>           > > shared global registry of dependent scoped beans for
>> this
>>  >>         to work).
>>  >>           > >
>>  >>           > > - Do we want two methods that effectively do the same
>>  >>         thing?  I don't
>>  >>           > > see a strong difference between the two.
>>  >>           >
>>  >>           > Instance.destroy() currently always destroys the
>> contextual
>>  >>         instance.
>>  >>           > Which is not always what users expect. That's why I
>> proposed
>>  >>         to add
>>  >>           > Instance.release() -
>> https://github.com/cdi-spec/cdi/pull/286,
>>  >>           > previously Instance.getBean() -
>>  >> https://github.com/cdi-spec/cdi/pull/273.
>>  >>           >
>>  >>
>>  >>         Since you give the instance to both I guess the intention
>> from user
>>  >>         point of view is obvious and then we dont need 2 methods. What
>>  >>         would be
>>  >>         the other use case?
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >> https://github.com/cdi-spec/cdi/pull/273#issuecomment-179080614
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >>           > >
>>  >>           > > On the flipside, my change is more a spec clarification.
>>  >>         I'm thinking
>>  >>           > > more now that it belongs as a reword of 5.6.1 to clarify
>>  >>         how to use
>>  >>           > > destroy() on dependent beans, rather than where I put
>> it.
>>  >>         I think
>>  >>           > > realistically we have all of the tools needed to
>> manage the
>>  >>         lifecycle of
>>  >>           > > these classes, just need to clarify them for people to
>> use.
>>  >>           > >
>>  >>           > > John
>>  >>           > >
>>  >>           > >
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