[weld-dev] Question regarding behavior of Decorated dependent scoped beans

[Pete Muir]

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On 18 Jan 2010, at 23:07, Joseph Bergmark wrote:

> While verifying the behavior of decorated dependent scoped beans on OpenWebBeans, Gurkan mentioned that he observed the same behavior on WELD.  While verifying myself I noticed two behaviors that seem to conflict with the spec.
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> 1) Non-normal scoped beans don't have any restrictions on public fields.  A quick test showed that changes made to public fields directly are not reflected when a call to a getter method that returns that value of the public field is made.  Presumably this is because there is an proxy like object in the middle.
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> For example
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> @Inject MyBean myBean;
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> myBean.number = 7;
> myBean.getNumber(); //would return the default value for number and not 7 which it was just set to.

Correct, I don't think the spec covers this.

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> 2) Non-normal scoped beans don't require a public no-args constructor.  If the dependent scoped bean instead had a constructor annotated with @Inject (as per 3.1.1), an InstantiationException was thrown.
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> Are these expected restrictions once that dependent scoped bean is Decorated?

No, this seems like a bug.