[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-597) Make Principal unwrappable

[Romain Manni-Bucau (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-597?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13187794#comment-13187794 ] 

Romain Manni-Bucau commented on CDI-597:
----------------------------------------

[~mkouba] happy to do it but not tempted to parse method bodies with asm to do so handling java code dependencies etc and that's actually the only way to do it from the container point of view. Point is: very often you rely on a particular principal in the login module and you use it in your app in a dependent manner to propagate some fields (mail, display name...). The LoginModule could even instantiate different kind of principal in its implementation and you could use a "switch" like logic in your code if needed but for that or simply the basic need of accessing additional fields you need to access the actual principal. Here CDI is blocking cause of proxies, user can't really produce the Principal cause LoginModule are often reused (ie code is not under your responsability).

> Make Principal unwrappable
> --------------------------
>
>                 Key: CDI-597
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-597
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Epic
>            Reporter: Romain Manni-Bucau
>
> CDI allows to get injected a Principal but often you need to access the actual Principal instance when you need more than a name. Since the injection is a proxy (otherwise it would be broken in most of  scoped wrapper instances cases) we would need a CDI solution to unwrap this instance.
> Solution I see without creating a new kind of API but just something specific to this case: CDIPrincipal extends Principal { <T> T unwrap(Class<T> t) } and allow to get it injected directly as Principal today.
> This issue can be linked to CDI-10 but here it is safe to add unwrap() where on CDI-10 it is not (too general).



--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v6.4.11#64026)