"alesj" wrote : Why would you need this? | I don't see anything similar in CachingMDC for other retrieveX methods. | The problem is that I want to only iterate over everything once, which means I have to create the annotations item myself, e.g.: | @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") | Cache<Class, AnnotationsItem> cached = cachedMetaAnnotations; | if (cached == null) | { | AnnotationsItem item = retrieveAnnotations(); | if (item.getAnnotations().length > 0) | { | Map<Class<? extends Annotation>, List<AnnotationItem<?>>> annotations = new HashMap<Class<? extends Annotation>, List<AnnotationItem<?>>>(); | for (AnnotationItem<?> annotation : item.getAnnotations()) | { | for (Annotation current : annotation.getAnnotation().annotationType().getAnnotations()) | { | List<AnnotationItem<?>> annotationsForMeta = annotations.get(current.annotationType()); | if (annotationsForMeta == null) | { | annotationsForMeta = new ArrayList<AnnotationItem<?>>(); | annotations.put(current.annotationType(), annotationsForMeta); | } | annotationsForMeta.add(annotation); | } | } | | cached = factory.createCache(Class.class, AnnotationsItem.class, getFqn()); | for (Map.Entry<Class<? extends Annotation>, List<AnnotationItem<?>>> entry : annotations.entrySet()) | { | | AnnotationsItem basic = new BasicAnnotationsItem(null, entry.getValue().toArray(new AnnotationItem<?>[entry.getValue().size()] )); | cached.put(entry.getKey(), basic); | } | } | cachedMetaAnnotations = cached; | } | return cached.get(meta); | So, I need to create the annotations item myself. If I don't pass in a loader, the BasicAnnotationsItem will fail on isCachable() since that calls the loader. This problem will also occur if when I move the pre-indexing logic into AbstractMetaDataContext. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4269371#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...