[webbeans-dev] Re: CreationalContext

Folks, I would like to go ahead and write up this change, unless anyone objects. It's a hole that needs fixing. On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Gavin King <gavin(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > The alternate solution is something like: > > interface CreationalContext { > <X> void add(Bean<X> bean, X instance); //registers an "incomplete" instance > } > > interface Contextual<T> { > public abstract T create(CreationalContext ctx); > ... > } > > interface Context { > public <T> T get(Contextual<T> bean); //get any existing instance > public <T> T get(Contextual<T> bean, CreationalContext ctx); > //get or create an instance > > public Class<? extends Annotation> getScopeType(); > boolean isActive(); > } > > interface Manager { > Object getInstanceToInject(CreationalContext ctx, > InjectionPoint ij, Type type, Annotation... bindings); > ... > } > > And getInstanceToInject() would be smart enough to return any object > that had already been registered with the CreationalContext. > > Note that this solution addresses the problem of circular references, > and also fixes a hole in how the Manager knows about the InjectionPoint. -- Gavin King gavin.king(a)gmail.com http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin http://hibernate.org http://seamframework.org