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

[Mark Struberg (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-456?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12999120#comment-12999120 ] 

Mark Struberg commented on CDI-456:
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[~mkouba] yes, 3 Extensions - 1 in each of the WARs - add 3 different Bean<T> which produce the same Class, but different content. 

The container must not use the class to detect in which part of the application the Bean is valid and in which not. There must be other mechanisms. Each of the WARs could use a different Extension instance for example and store the created/parsed/whatever Beans in a different location. THAT would be modular. But just using a Class which can be used in tons of different Beans is not.

> fix Bean#getBeanClass() definition
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>
>                 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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