[cdi-dev] What, if any, guarantees are made about invoking asynchronous event observer methods?

[Martin Kouba]

FYI there is already https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-570 which seems 
to be related.

Martin

Dne 12.5.2017 v 08:39 Martin Kouba napsal(a):
> Dne 11.5.2017 v 21:30 Laird Nelson napsal(a):
>> I'm using CDI 2.0 and Weld 3.0.0.CR2 in "SE mode".
>>
>> If I fire an asynchronous event without any special notification
>> options, my understanding is that the container will arrange for that
>> event to be delivered to asynchronous observers.
>>
>> Is (appropriate) asynchronous observer method invocation guaranteed to
>> happen at some point?  Section 10.2.2 seems to hint that it is:
>>
>> "Event fired [sic] with the fireAsync() method is [sic] fired
>> asynchronously. *All the resolved asynchronous observers* (as defined in
>> Observer resolution) *are called* in one or more different threads."
>>
>> To me, this says that if I use fireAsync() to fire an event, then if I
>> have a (resolved) asynchronous observer method for it it will be
>> notified before the container closes no matter what.
>
> I think it's undefined. And I don't believe it would be reasonable to
> block the container shutdown because of an async observer method waiting
> for notification. The spec is clear that the container must destroy all
> contexts when an application is stopped. And if we destroy the contexts
> then the bean declaring the observer or its dependencies might be in
> inconsistent state.
>
>>
>> (I believe I am observing a race condition somewhere in here that might
>> show that Weld's default asynchronous event delivery machinery does not
>> actually get around to delivering the event I've queued up before the
>> container closes.  Sometimes the event is received, sometimes it is
>> not.  Obviously if there is no such guarantee this could be permitted
>> behavior.)
>>
>> Best,
>> Laird
>>
>>
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Martin Kouba
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