[cdi-dev] What about @AsyncObserves ?

[Mark Struberg]

Imagine you write some business code and your Observer needs a @RequestScoped LoggedInUser. 
The event gets fired by some cool library you use. 

Now this cool library updates to CDI-2.0 and uses fireAsync from now on. But your code still needs the @RequestScoped LoggedInUser on the same thread -> booooom.

LieGrue,
strub

> Am 19.03.2015 um 18:17 schrieb José Paumard <jose.paumard at gmail.com>:
> 
> I see the situation as being : 
> - CDI 1.x : I call event.fireEvent(...), there is an observer that is called. Currently it is called in the same thread. 
> - CDI 2.0 : I call event.fireEvent(...), there is an observer that is called. It will be called in the same thread. 
> 
> So what is the backward compatibility issue here ? From what I understand it just works the same. 
> 
> José
> 
> 
> 2015-03-19 17:19 GMT+01:00 Antoine Sabot-Durand <antoine at sabot-durand.net>:
> The killer argument is that nobody succeed to provide a way to prevent opt-in and keep backward compaibility. The problem comes from the fact that producer and consumer can be in different jar compiled with different version of CDI  and running on CDI 2.0 preventing using opt-out.
> If you have the solution without opt-in I’m all ears.
> 
> 
>> Le 19 mars 2015 à 16:52, José Paumard <jose.paumard at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> > So it seems impossible to avoid opt-in on the observer side
>> What is the "killer" argument for that ? 
>> 
>> José
>> 
>> 2015-03-19 16:44 GMT+01:00 Antoine Sabot-Durand <antoine at sabot-durand.net>:
>> 
>>> Le 19 mars 2015 à 15:51, Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibucau at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> sounds like a quick and dirty solution to me. @Async will arrive
>> 
>> Yes like in “Async is coming” ;)
>> 
>>> - maybe too early today - but adding @ObservesAsync just cause we dont have yet @Async will make this API obselete pretty quickly isn't it (already cause of EJB actually).
>> 
>> and if we add an @Async in our spec you think it’s better ?
>> 
>>> 
>>> Do we really want this feature at this price?
>> 
>> #1 requested feature by users.
>> 
>>> If yes AsyncObserves sounds an acceptable compromise but still will mess up the API IMO.
>> 
>> The question is “Is it more or less messy than @Async @Observes?"  I don’t know… It has pros and cons as I listed... 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Romain Manni-Bucau
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>>> 2015-03-19 15:36 GMT+01:00 Antoine Sabot-Durand <antoine at sabot-durand.net>:
>>> Hi guys,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So it seems impossible to avoid opt-in on the observer side for the sake of awkward compatibility.
>>> Adding a member to @Observes could also be a source of issues when old CDI lib will be used with CDI 2.0 runtime. Some of us (including me) don’t want to add an @Async annotation to CDI spec, so perhaps we should add an async alternative to @Observes with an @AsyncObserves or @ObservesAsync ?
>>> 
>>> So it would be
>>> 
>>> public void myObserver(@AsyncObserves payload) {}
>>> 
>>> instead of
>>> 
>>> @Async
>>> public void myObserver(@Observes payload) {}
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Pros :
>>> - it’s a cleaner way to manage the opt-in than to put 2 annotations or add a member to an existing one
>>> - it could have new members related to async behavior (context propagation, concurrent scenario, etc…)
>>> - As it won’t be in legacy code no risk to see old observers called asynchronously  
>>> 
>>> Cons :
>>> - Still not clear for users when fire() is called to see @AsyncObserves launched synchronously
>>> - Yet another annotation added
>>> 
>>> wdyt ?
>>> 
>>> Antoine
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