[cdi-dev] Portable decorable Bean<T> instances

[Matej Novotny]

Hi,

yes, there is no portable way.
It is a similar situation as was with interceptors before InterceptionFactory was added.

[impl 'details']
In principle, to implement this, you need to create a "wrapper class" around the object which is to be intercepted/decorated.
If you provide a custom way to create the bean, it is very difficult to create this wrapper on-the-fly.
Even the solution for interceptors has some shortcomings and flaws and decorators seem even more complex (less restrictions on how does a decorator look like).

Matej

----- Original Message -----
> From: "arjan tijms" <arjan.tijms at gmail.com>
> To: cdi-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 11:30:54 AM
> Subject: [cdi-dev] Portable decorable Bean<T> instances
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When adding a manually constructed Bean<T> instance using
> AfterBeanDiscovery.addBean(Bean<?>), or using the
> AfterBeanDiscovery.addBean() method and the BeanConfigurator, the resulting
> bean can't be decorated.
> 
> This is because seemingly CDI expects the create() method of Bean<T> to
> locate the decorators itself and apply them to the instance it returns.
> 
> Using BeanManager.resolveDecorators one can obtain the Decorator<T>
> instances, but am I right that there's no portable way to actually apply
> those decorators to the bean instance?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Arjan
> 
> 
> 
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