[cdi-dev] Accepting class type for simple (qualifier) annotations in APIs?

Antoine Sabot-Durand antoine at sabot-durand.net
Thu Sep 15 04:15:04 EDT 2016


Just a naive remark regarding Instance of annotations without members. I already used a lambda to have such an instance:

BeanManager.getBeans(MyBean.class, () -> MyQualifier.class)

I’m not sure there are no problem by using this short cut, but it is quite convenient.

Antoine 


> Le 12 sept. 2016 à 12:28, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Wouldn't it be convenient as the CDI API that now requires an Annotation instance in various APIs, would also accept the class type of that Annotation?
> 
> E.g. in BeanManager there's this method:
> 
> Set<Bean<?>> getBeans(Type beanType, Annotation... qualifiers)
> 
> This not rarely requires one to create an AnnotationLiteral, which is not specifically difficult but a tad verbose. For qualifiers that have no (binding) attributes, a simple Class would be much easier to use.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Arjan Tijms
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