<div dir="ltr">Think it is maybe saner to have AnnotationProvider.of(type, params) (like in deltaspike) since it doesnt leave the parameterized annotations (which are not rare) next the road.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br><span style="font-size:small">Romain Manni-Bucau</span><br><a href="https://twitter.com/rmannibucau" target="_blank">@rmannibucau</a> | <a href="https://blog-rmannibucau.rhcloud.com" target="_blank">Blog</a> | <a href="http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Old Wordpress Blog</a> | <a href="https://github.com/rmannibucau" target="_blank">Github</a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> | <a href="http://www.tomitribe.com" target="_blank">Tomitriber</a> | <a href="https://javaeefactory-rmannibucau.rhcloud.com" target="_blank">JavaEE Factory</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-09-12 12:28 GMT+02:00 arjan tijms <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arjan.tijms@gmail.com" target="_blank">arjan.tijms@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>E.g. in BeanManager there's this method:</div><div><br></div><div>Set<Bean<?>> getBeans(Type beanType, Annotation... qualifiers)</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Arjan Tijms</div></div>
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