[cdi-dev] Constructor dependency

[Martin Kouba]

Hi Sebastian,

the "superfluous" constructor is required for client proxies (i.e. for 
normal-scoped beans). Weld may use non-portable JVM APIs that allow to 
allocate proxy instances without this constructor (Unsafe). The feature 
is called "Relaxed construction" [1]. Again, this feature is not portable.

Martin

[1]
http://docs.jboss.org/weld/reference/latest/en-US/html/configure.html#relaxedConstruction

Dne 7.7.2015 v 14:18 Sebastian Łaskawiec napsal(a):
> Hey!
>
> I've seen CDI 2.0 Early Draft - congratulations! Looks very promising!
>
> I would like to ask about something slightly different than CDI 2.0 -
> constructor injection. I'm a big fan of using it because I can easily
> inject mocks into tested objects. This way I can limit the number of
> Arquillian tests and speed up testing phase in my project.
>
> However the drawback is that need 2 constructors in my beans:
>
> @ApplicationScoped
> public class MyBean {
>       public MyBean() {
>       }
>
>       @Inject
>       public MyBean(OtherBean bean) {
>       }
> }
>
> Is it possible to get rid of the zero-parameter constructor? I can
> imagine that it may be required by dependency resolution mechanism (for
> example instantiating beans with cyclic dependencies A -> B -> C -> A),
> but on the other hand we actually can create an instance without calling
> a constructor - using Unsafe (but using Unsafe is always questionable).
>
> Could you please tell me if there are any plans around this topic?
>
> Thanks
> Sebastian
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Martin Kouba
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