[cdi-dev] @PostConstruct and @Inject methods in superclasses

[Stuart Douglas]

This is actually covered by the interceptors specification, from memory I am pretty sure the base class method is mean't to be called first, but the spec gives you the full order. 

@Inject methods are called before @PostConstuct (the are called in InjectionTarget.inject, which gets called before InjectionTarget.postConstruct).

I don't think we specify an order for @Inject methods.

Stuart

On 01/10/2011, at 5:47 AM, Mark Struberg wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> JSR-250 common annotations is pretty thin about having @PostConstruct in multiple class hierarchies. It just says that there must only be one single method annotated with @PostConstruct in a class. Thus my question:
> 
> If I have 
> 
> 
> public class Animal {
>  @PostConstruct
> 
>  public void doInit() {..}
>  ..
> 
> }
> 
> and 
> 
>  public class Horse extends Animal {
>  @PostConstruct
> 
>  public void doSomeOtherInit() {..}
>  ..
> 
> }
> 
> 
> 1.) for a contextual instance of Horse, will Animal#doInit() get executed or only the one from the 'effective' class?
> 2.) if 1.) was yes, then In which order do they get executed? Is this specced somewhere?
> 
> 3.) Same scenario with @Inject methods. Do we specify an order?
> 
> 4.) Both classes have @Inject methods and @PostConstruct. Again: which order of invocaition?
> 
> 
> Just that you understand my intention: we had a @PostConstruct method in Horse which did set a 'cached' flag in Animal. Turned out that this was a random generator depending on the intsalled server ;)
> 
> 
> LieGrue,
> strub
> 
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