Antonin Stefanutti created CDI-472: -------------------------------------- Summary: Support @WithAnnotations as type annotation of lifecycle events Key: CDI-472 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-472 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Feature Request Reporter: Antonin Stefanutti As Java 8 introduces type annotations, generalizing the benefit of {{@WithAnnotations}} by using it as type annotation could improve a lot of recurring patterns that are usually implemented as a combination of {{ProcessAnnotatedType}} and other lifecycle events. For example, instead of having to write that in a CDI extension: {code} Set<AnnotatedType<?>> camelBeans = new HashMap<>(); void camelAnnotations(@Observes @WithAnnotations({BeanInject.class, Consume.class, EndpointInject.class, Produce.class, PropertyInject.class}) ProcessAnnotatedType<?> pat) { camelBeans.add(pat.getAnnotatedType()); } <T> void camelBeansPostProcessor(@Observes ProcessInjectionTarget<T> pit, BeanManager manager) { if (camelBeans.contains(pit.getAnnotatedType())) pit.setInjectionTarget(new CdiCamelInjectionTarget<>(pit.getInjectionTarget(), manager)); } {code} One could write directly: {code} <@WithAnnotations({BeanInject.class, Consume.class, EndpointInject.class, Produce.class, PropertyInject.class}) T> void camelBeansPostProcessor(@Observes ProcessInjectionTarget<T> pit, BeanManager manager) { pit.setInjectionTarget(new CdiCamelInjectionTarget<>(pit.getInjectionTarget(), manager)); } {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.1#6329)