[seam-dev] Retrieving the Bean object for an interceptor

[Dan Allen]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Stuart Douglas <stuart at baileyroberts.com.au
> wrote:

> I think that the easiest way to address this would be to allow the
> interceptor to inject the Bean and AnnotatedType object for the intercepted
> object.
>
>  e.g.
> @Inject @InterceptedMetadata Bean bean;
>
> @Inject @InterceptedMetadata AnnotatedType type;
>
> In theory the AnnotatedType could be null, but in practice custom beans
> don't support interceptors, so this should be fine.
>
> This allows the interceptor to read the annotation information from the
> AnnotatedType. We could also allow beans to inject this information as well,
> but I think that this can be implemented as a portable extension without any
> spec changes.
>
> The approach taken by decorators immediately comes to mind. I think the
availability of this information would really revolutionize the Java EE
approach to interception. I know if I showed this in a presentation I would
get some raised brows ;)

-Dan

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