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[jax-rs-spec users] [jsr339-experts] Re: Re: Re: can you _at_Context inject Configurable or Configuration?

From: Marek Potociar <marek.potociar_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:13:21 +0100

On Feb 20, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com> wrote:

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> On 2/20/2013 8:37 AM, Marek Potociar wrote:
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>> On Feb 19, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com> wrote:
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>>> On 2/19/2013 8:48 AM, Marek Potociar wrote:
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>>>> On Feb 19, 2013, at 2:39 PM, Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com
>>>> <mailto:bburke_at_redhat.com>> wrote:
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>>>>> I'm writing a sub-chapter on component registration and came across a
>>>>> problem. Is there any way of leveraging scanning so we can build a
>>>>> Client from scanned components? Would this work server side?
>>>>>
>>>>> @Context Configurable configurable;
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>>>> Should the above be Configuration? Configuration can be injected into
>>>> server side components (providers/resources).
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>>> Can you inject Configurable as well? Just wondering...
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>> No, why would you want that? Once app is deployed config should not be mutable. Mutability would open the whole can of worms.
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> To add filters and interceptors with a specific priority.

Feature and DynamicFeature are here for that use case.

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>>>>> @Context ClientBuilder builder;
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>>>> I was hoping we have closed the client component injection topic with
>>>> removal of @Uri for the time being.
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>>> That's fine, but, FWIW this is much different. Injecting a ClientBuilder would require no special configuration and the container could just initialize the builder with configured components (scanned or via Application). This is quite unlike @Uri which would often require outside external configuration of the underlying Client.
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>> Now that @Uri has been dropped I'm strongly inclined to defer the whole server-side client component injection discussion. I do not want a half-baked last moment solution sneak into API.
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> No problem on deferring. I just don't think ClientBuilder injection is half baked though.

Ok.

Marek

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