[seam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (SOLDER-331) @Exact does not do what its name implies/JavaDoc states

[Richard Kennard (JIRA)]

Richard Kennard created SOLDER-331:
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             Summary: @Exact does not do what its name implies/JavaDoc states
                 Key: SOLDER-331
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/SOLDER-331
             Project: Solder
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Core
    Affects Versions: 3.1.0.Final
            Reporter: Richard Kennard


The Solder annotation @Exact is poorly defined, IMHO, because it does not do what its name implies/JavaDoc states:

"An injection point qualifier that may be used to select the exact bean to be injected, by specifying its implementation class."

In the test suite it tests:

{{@Inject @Exact(Greyhound.class) private Dog dog;}}

But all @Exact does behind the scenes (in CoreExtension.java) is:

{{if (f.isAnnotationPresent(Exact.class)) { ... builder.overrideFieldType(f, type);}}

So whilst you can make Dog 'exact' into Greyhound, if there exists another class BetterGreyhound:

{{package org.jboss.solder.test.core; public class BetterGreyhound extends Greyhound { }}}

You *cannot* make BetterGreyhound into Greyhound. If BetterGreyhound exists and you try:

{{@Inject @Exact(Greyhound.class) private Dog dog;}}

You'll get:

WELD-001409 Ambiguous dependencies for type [Greyhound] with qualifiers [@Default] at injection point [[field] @Exact @Inject private org.jboss.solder.test.core.RaceTrack.dog]. Possible dependencies [[Managed Bean [class org.jboss.solder.test.core.Greyhound] with qualifiers [@Any @Default @Named], Managed Bean [class org.jboss.solder.test.core.BetterGreyhound] with qualifiers [@Any @Default @Named]]]

I think @Exact either:

* needs to be a @Qualifier (which it used to be, and which its JavaDoc states it still is); or
* needs to be renamed to @AtLeast; or
* needs its JavaDoc fixed to clarify that it can only resolve ambiguious superclasses, not subclasses


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