[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-70) Clarify that if an extension provides an Annotated* then it is considered "metadata complete"

[Martin Kouba (Commented) (JIRA)]

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Martin Kouba commented on CDI-70:
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It's not clear from my point of view. If we say that the container must call AnnotatedType.getConstructors() to determine the members (constructors) of a bean class, IMO we declare that the container should not inspect the bean class via reflection to discover any constructors at all. The spec also states that "AnnotatedType.getConstructors() - returns all the constructors declared for the type".

We should either modify spec to explicitly mention the default constructor: "AnnotatedType.getConstructors() - returns all the constructors declared for the type; if an empty set is returned, a default constructor with no parameters will be assumed" or modify javadoc to align with spec.

BTW current Weld impl does not "assume" default constructor with no parameters if original AnnotatedType is replaced during processing of ProcessAnnotatedType event.



                
> Clarify that if an extension provides an Annotated* then it is considered "metadata complete"
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>
>                 Key: CDI-70
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-70
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Clarification
>          Components: Portable Extensions
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>            Reporter: Pete Muir
>            Assignee: Pete Muir
>             Fix For: 1.1.EDR1
>
>
> I think the correct behavior is to ignore any members that are missing from the AnnotatedType. You should not be directly accessing the reflection API at all. If the parameters for a method or a constructor don't match the underlying class, it should be considered a definition error.

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