Re: [cdi-dev] Is it required to explicitly add @Any for custom beans?

Agreed, we can tidy up the language here. On 4 Feb 2014, at 16:53, Gunnar Morling <gunnar(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > Hi Martin, > > 2014/2/4 Martin Kouba <mkouba(a)redhat.com&gt; > Hi Gunnar, > > I believe it is required. > > See the spec section 11.1 The Bean interface: > "getTypes(), getQualifiers(), getScope(), getName() and getStereotypes() > must return the bean types, qualifiers, scope type, bean name and > stereotypes of the bean, as defined in Chapter 2" > > I think the sentence you're referencing is rather about class-based > beans, not custom beans. > > Yes, that's the question. > > It doesn't explicitly say it's about class-based beans only, so it can be perceived as applying to custom beans as well. Then I'd understand the "as defined in Chapter 2" from section 11.1 as "it's not required to explicitly return @Any". > > But it's not very clear. > > Right, some clarification would be nice. In my particular case I'll just add a literal for @Any, but it's easy to forget to do so when writing a PE, so it might be useful to require a CDI implementation to automatically add that qualifier for custom beans if missing. > > M > > > Dne 4.2.2014 09:54, Gunnar Morling napsal(a): > > Hi, > > > > I'm registering a custom Bean implementation using a portable extension. > > Injection of this bean using the @Any qualifier fails unless I > > explicitly add this qualifier in the getQualifiers() implementation of > > my bean. > > > > Now the spec says in 2.3.1: > > > > "Every bean has the built-in qualifier @Any, even if it does not > > explicitly declare this qualifier [...]" > > > > Based on that, I had expected that I'm not required to add this > > qualifier to my custom bean implementation. Or am I misinterpreting the > > spec here? > > > > Thanks, > > > > --Gunnar > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > cdi-dev mailing list > > cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/cdi-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > cdi-dev mailing list > cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/cdi-dev