[cdi-dev] do we like to define a DeploymentException type?

[Jason Porter]

Having CDI define (even one) exception would be nice and would make testing extensions for portability much easier. As it currently stands you have to test for implementation specific exceptions. 

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On Jun 15, 2012, at 1:48, Mark Struberg <struberg at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> While reviewing the DeltaSpike MessageBundleExtension, I (again) came to the point where I didn't knew which Exception to take. 
> 
> 
> It might be nice to have a DeploymentException which indicates that a CDI Extension detected a logical problem which is _not_ caused by some technical problems.
> 
> E.g. if a certain annotation must not be used in conjunction with another one. In our case @MessageBundle must only be used on Interfaces. We collect all those problems during ProcessAnnotatedType and add them as AfterBeanDiscovery#addDefinitionError.
> 
> A well defined DeploymentException could help indicating such 'logical' problems, wdyt?
> 
> LieGrue,
> strub
> 
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