[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-10) Add ability to access a bean instance from a proxy

[Martin Kouba (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-10?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Martin Kouba reopened CDI-10:
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I believe this issue is valid and should be reopened. Recently, we've run into problems with two integration scenarios where having this portable way to detect a client proxy and access the bean instance would allow to implement portable "workarounds".

h3. Bean Validation

The spec does not forbid the *field access strategy* to be used for normal-scoped CDI beans. However, this doesn't work because injectable references for normal-scoped beans are client proxies and not direct references to contextual instances. See also https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=1039523.

h3. JAX-RS

Weld client proxies lose generic type information which screws up injection of generic params into RESTEasy resource methods. See also WELD-1539.


> Add ability to access a bean instance from a proxy
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>
>                 Key: CDI-10
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-10
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Beans
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>            Reporter: Stuart Douglas
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> There are occasions when it would be useful to access a bean instance directly from a proxy. This could be achieved by making all proxies assignable to an interface (say BeanProxy) that provides a getBeanInstance() method. 
> Client code that needs access to the actual instance can check if the object is assignable to the BeanProxy interface and then call getBeanInstance() to get the actual instance if required.
> This is something that is probably more useful to extension writers than the end user, but there have already been a few requests on the weld forum about this so it is probably worth considering.



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