[jboss-as7-dev] AS7 Naming behaviour change for Context#list and JNDI View

[Jaikiran Pai]

A quick question - Does this also show "?" if as a user I used the 
naming subsystem to bind primitive types to JNDI?

-Jaikiran
On Tuesday 09 October 2012 02:51 PM, Eduardo Martins wrote:
> Just a quick alert to all devs working on AS7 or AS7 extensions, with 
> respect to some changes in the Naming module behaviour.
>
> Till now Context#list operations and JNDI View's management operation 
> where doing "plain" JNDI lookups to generate results, and this was 
> problematic in many ways (e.g. AS7-2217 and AS7-5347). From now on 
> lookups will only be done for entries which do not use 
> ManagedReferenceFactory as a mean to return the lookup value, and for 
> these special entries the Naming module will now return safe default 
> values, Object.class for list operations, and the String "?" as the 
> value printed in JNDI View.
>
> Now, along with these behaviour changes, 3 new extensions of 
> the ManagedReferenceFactory interface are introduced:
>
>   * org.jboss.as.naming.ContextListManagedReferenceFactory
>     <https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/blob/master/naming/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/naming/ContextListManagedReferenceFactory.java> -
>     a ManagedReferenceFactory, which provides a proper type for
>     Context#list operations results
>
>
>   * org.jboss.as.naming.JndiViewManagedReferenceFactory
>     <https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/blob/master/naming/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/naming/JndiViewManagedReferenceFactory.java> -
>     a ManagedReferenceFactory, which provides a proper (and does it
>     safely) String view of the binding's value
>
>
>   * org.jboss.as.naming.ContextListAndJndiViewManagedReferenceFactory
>     <https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/blob/master/naming/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/naming/ContextListAndJndiViewManagedReferenceFactory.java> -
>     a combination of the two previous ones
>
>
> By implementing these, instead of the raw ManagedReferenceFactory, AS7 
> Naming module will provide more detailed and proper results, so if you 
> are responsible for some factory, or perhaps start seeing Object.class 
> and/or "?" from bindings you are responsible, please consider the 
> upgrade to the new extensions.
>
> I already upgraded the main ones, see 
> https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/pull/3137/files
>
> -- E
>
>
>
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