Re: [Resteasy-developers] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (RESTEASY-81) @Context member variables in subresources are not injected (null)

[Martin A. <sp...@ma...>]

On 18 Jul 2008, at 17:34, Bill Burke wrote:

> Make it so, should be easy.
>

Uhm? I already did (and yes it was easy), and reverted it back since I  
didn't think we could go against the spec. You think I can?

M


> Martin Algesten wrote:
>> But thinking about this, it makes me question this part of the spec.
>> "An implementation is only required to set the annotated field and   
>> bean property values of instances created by the implementation   
>> runtime. Objects returned by sub-resource locators (see section  
>> 3.4.1)  are expected to be initialized by their creator and field  
>> and bean  properties are not modified by the implementation  
>> runtime."
>> Why does the spec use an injection style way of initialisation in  
>> the  first place? I guess because it's kinda new, cool, and less to  
>> write.
>> public class OldStyleResource implements UriInfoAware {
>>  private UriInfo uriInfo;
>>  // Called by framework to give us uriInfo.
>>  public void setUriInfo( UriInfo uriInfo ) {
>>    this.uriInfo = uriInfo;
>>  }
>>  public SubResource getSubResrouce() {...}
>> }
>> vs
>> public class ModernStyleResource {
>>  @Context
>>  private UriInfo uriInfo;
>> }
>> But why doesn't the same logic apply to subresoures? The fact that   
>> they've been instantiated by something else that in theory could  
>> pass  all the wanted references through doesn't seem to be  
>> adequate, what if  there's a whole heap of stuff to pass through?  
>> Doesn't the same  neatness logic apply?... I'm not saying that we  
>> should traverse the  whole object graph of the subresource and  
>> inject everywhere, just the  top level. if we're trying to do nice  
>> new ways of initialising why not  do it across the board?
>> M
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