[jboss-dev-forums] [Design the new POJO MicroContainer] - Re: Providing bean name aware feature

[alesj]

"adrian at jboss.org" wrote : I thought I said not to add that xml config?
  | You're not listening to any of my objections on this which has just led to all
  | sorts of hacks and stupid configurations.
  | 
Yup.
I did respond I'll do them both though. :-(

The thing is people - like ThomasD - want to write as little code as possible to get name injected.

If he needs to write the whole

  | <property name="name"><inject fromContext="name"/></property>
  | 
it's almost the same if he writes

  | <property name="name">MyBeanName</property>
  | 
Even less chars on short names. :-)

But I agree auto-injection has its advantages. :-)

"adrian at jboss.org" wrote : 
  | 1) The name injection should be configured on a property
  | e.g. something like
  | 
  |   | <property name="name"><inject fromContext="name"/></property>
  |   | 
  | 
  | You should be able to inject the bean name anywhere, e.g.
  | on a parameter to the constructor
  | 
  |   | <constructor>
  |   | <parameter><inject fromContext="name"/></parameter>
  |   | </constructor>
  |   | 
  | 
  | and even potentially use it to resolve an alias to the real name
  | 
  | 
  |   | <inject bean="SomeAlias" fromContext="name"/>
  |   | 
  | 
  | 2) This just matches what should be doable and should be done via an annotation
  | 
  |   | @inject(fromContext="name")
  |   | public void setName(String name);
  |   | 
  | 

Yup, I agree totally.
The parameter configuration should be there.
And I'm also not keen on

  | <inject fromContext="name"/>
  | 
So that I don't screw it up for the Nth time, what should we use then? :-)

And I don't understand what you meant with alias usage?

"adrian at jboss.org" wrote : 
  | 3) The idea of hardwiring "setName" into the microcontainer code
  | as some kind of default is just stupid.
  | e.g. What if the bean already uses the "name" property for something else?

You should be aware that setName is not used for bean name, and you actually set name-method attribute.

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