[jboss-user] [Microcontainer] - Re: What is the correct time to invoke the getProperties on

[jaikiran]

"alesj" wrote : The builder just builds metadata.
  | Annotation's metadata population happens only in Describe state,
  | as we know there that our CL exists == can do class info inspection.
  | 

Makes sense.

"alesj" wrote : 
  | I looks like you're actually trying to do what AnnotationToBeanMetaDataFactory is meant for.

After looking at the AnnotationToBeanMetadatFactory, i don't think that's what i am after. So to give you an exact idea of what i am trying to do:

I am dynamically building a bean MyBean which needs another bean MyOtherBean to be injected in it:

public class MyBean
  | {
  | 
  |  // Inject information will be dynamically added, including the bean name
  |  // to be injected
  |  @Inject
  |  private MyOtherBean otherBean;
  | ...
  | }
  | 

The easy way to dynamically build this bean and add the injection attributes is this:

  | MyBean mybean = new MyBean();
  | BeanMetaDataBuilder builder = BeanMetaDataBuilder.createBuilder("blah", mybean.getClass().getName());
  | builder.setConstructorValue(mybean);
  | 
  | // create the inject attributes
  | ValueMetaData inject = builder.createInject("beanNameOftheDependency", null, null, ControllerState.DESCRIBED);
  | builder.addPropertyMetaData("otherBean", inject);

Works fine. However, the thing that i want to avoid is this line:

builder.addPropertyMetaData("otherBean", inject)

I was trying to avoid adding the inject/depends on a "field name" and instead was trying to see if i could create the metadata based on the "type" to inject. Something like:

builder.addPropertyMetadata(MyOtherBean.class.getName(),inject);

The MC would then look for a field of type MyOtherBean and create the injection on MyBean.

So if tomorrow, someone dislikes the field name and changes it to:

public class MyBean
  | {
  | 
  |  // Inject information will be dynamically added, including the bean name
  |  // to be injected
  |  @Inject
  |  private MyOtherBean iDontLikeTheEarlierName;
  | ...
  | }

then i could still have this entire thing working. 

Maybe MC already has something to achieve this and i am not finding the correct API?

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