Re: [infinispan-dev] Event handling behaviour

On Oct 17, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)infinispan.org&gt; wrote: > For example a strong use case for these events is data validation: I'm > looking forward for an integration with Bean Validation, and when that > happens I'm pretty sure we'll want to rollback the transaction in case > of validation failures. Makes sense. This won't work for async listeners, nor allowing the listener direct access to javax.transaction.Transaction object. Perhpas an Event.abortTransaction() would do the trick.

> > BTW I still don't like the need to invoke "isPre()". IMO you should > provide a way to register the Listener to happen only after or before; > the isPre method can stay where it is for convenience but it bothers > me that you have to call it on each invocation, it should be optional, > for example for those cases in which I need two different operations > to happen before/after and I'm too lazy to code two different > listener. +1. Making it an attribute to the @Listener annotation would do just that.