[wildfly-dev] best way to get extensions to apply model changes immediately at runtime?

[Brian Stansberry]

On 4/28/16 7:42 AM, Jeff Mesnil wrote:
>> To register your custom handler you need to override
>> PersistentResourceDefinition.registerAttributes so instead of calling
>> the superclass (which registers ReloadRequiredWriteAttributeHandler for
>> all attributes) instead you register your handler(s).
>>
>> (Tomaz, I think we need to make this write handler registration easier.
>> Perhaps something like a
>> PersistentResourceDefinition.getAttributeHandlers() method that returns
>> a Map<String, OperationStepHandler>. And then registerAttributes uses
>> the map instead of hardcoding ReloadRequiredWriteAttributeHandler.
>> Default impl just fills the map values with
>> ReloadRequiredWriteAttributeHandler.)
>
> Couldn’t we add a setWriteAttributeHandler(OSH) on the AttributeDefinition and default to ReloadRequiredWriteAttributeHandler if it’s not present?
>

Not without making AD mutable, which I don't want to do, just because.

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Brian Stansberry
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