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

[Arne Limburg (JIRA)]

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Arne Limburg commented on CDI-70:
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The spec already says in 11.4. that the container must not use the reflection api, but it is not emphasized and should be explicitly sayed in 11.5.5. If you change the sentence "The container must use the operations of Annotated and its subinterfaces to discover program element types and annotations, instead of directly calling the Java Reflection API" (in 11.4.) to "The container must use the operations of Annotated and its subinterfaces to discover program element types and annotations. The container must not directly call the Java Reflection API." it would emphasize this behavior. An additional sentence about missing fields, methods or parameters would clarify it even more.

In 11.5.5. you may change "The container must use the final value
of this property, after all observers have been called, to discover the types and read the annotations of the program elements." to "The container must use the final value of this property, after all observers have been called, as the only source to discover the types and program elements and read their annotations."

> 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
>             Fix For: 1.1 (Proposed)
>
>
> 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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