[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-43) Allow Extensions to specify the annotations that they are interested in

[Jozef Hartinger (JIRA)]

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Jozef Hartinger commented on CDI-43:
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I wonder if this could be implemented as a qualifier taking advantage of CDI-234 outcome. The container would then appear to be firing PAT with @WithAnnotations() qualifier that would contain every annotation found on the type and the observer method would be filtering PAT events using the qualifier. Of course, this would still allow container to optimize and do not actually fire all the events nor enumerate all the annotations of the type. However, from the extension developer perspective using existing concept - qualifiers - would be more natural than introducing a special annotation.

However, this would require CDI-234 resolved with support for non-standard array comparison where the required and provided qualifier would be distinguished - array comparison would be asymmetric (e.g. a value of a array member value of a required qualifier is a subset of the value of the matching member of the event qualifier)
                
> Allow Extensions to specify the annotations that they are interested in
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>
>                 Key: CDI-43
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-43
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Portable Extensions
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>            Reporter: Stuart Douglas
>            Assignee: Pete Muir
>             Fix For: 1.1.PRD
>
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> Currently portable extensions that wish to look for a specific annotation have to look through all availible classes in the ProcessAnnotatatedType event, which is quite inefficient. It would be good if extensions could do something like:
> public void processAnnotatedType(@Observes @RequireAnnotations({@Unwraps.class}) ProcessAnnotatedType pat) 
> This could allow the container to take advantage of annotation indexing to improve boot time performance, as well as reducing uneeded processing in the observer.

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