[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-456) fix Bean#getBeanClass() definition

[Mark Struberg (JIRA)]

Mark Struberg created CDI-456:
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             Summary: fix Bean#getBeanClass() definition
                 Key: CDI-456
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-456
             Project: CDI Specification Issues
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Beans
            Reporter: Mark Struberg


currently Bean#getBeanClass() is defined to return the class of the bean it produces but has one important exception: in case of a producer method or field it must return the class of the owner bean of this method or field.

Imo this only causes troubles and doesn't add any benefit. 
* At the time when 'using' the Bean (create and destroy) we always ONLY need the type which is to be created.
* At the time we create interceptors we ONLY need the type which is to be created;
* At the time we create the normalscoping proxies we ONLY need the type which is to be created;

In fact the only time we need the ownerBean is when scanning the methods and fields in it. And for creating we really need the owner-Bean and not it's bean-class!

In OWB we worked around this by having our own method getReturnType() which consistently returns the type which gets created.



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