[cdi-dev] Getting injection point from Bean#create

[Jozef Hartinger]

The workaround is very ugly. Instead of going that path OWB should be 
fixed to support the simple way.

On 11/20/2014 11:22 PM, arjan tijms wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Romain Manni-Bucau
> <rmannibucau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not sure what it means actually. InjectionPoint is highly contextual so
>> having an exception (not a npe of course) would make sense to me.
>>
>> Bean#create is a "you know what you do" from my understanding since
>> interceptors/decorators are not supported for instance so it shouldnt rely
>> of things like that, no?
> Sure, no interceptor/decorators, but the injection point -is- there of
> course. I can see it being set in OWB as a special property on the
> creational context if I walk down the stack trace in a debugger when
> my Bean#create method is being called. An injection point is something
> that implementations of Bean could always need, for instance to
> retrieve the name of the field into which injection is taking place.
>
> Of course, it being a "you know what you do", it's okay that it's not
> as simple as having it injected into the Bean, and that some extra
> code is needed to obtain it. As long as there is at least -a- way to
> get hold of it.
>
> The method I posted in the openings post does in fact work, but it
> feels slightly hacky. If that's an acceptable way to get the injection
> point, then so be it. But just wondering if it's not something that
> works by chance and may break later.
>
> Kind regards,
> Arjan
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