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Jozef Hartinger commented on DELTASPIKE-783:
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If an annotation is unknown to the runtime it is ignored - this really works
portably across all Java runtimes. You won't get an exception no matter if you
just load classes and use them or use reflection to inspect them.
If a bytecode scanning tool throws an exception on that then it is a bug and it
should not be doing it.
You may be confusing this with a situation when an annotation type has a member
of type Class<?>. Here, if the annotation is known to the runtime but the
member value is not, you get an exception.
> Use @WithAnnotations
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>
> Key: DELTASPIKE-783
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DELTASPIKE-783
> Project: DeltaSpike
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 1.1.0
> Reporter: Jozef Hartinger
>
> Make use of CDI's @WithAnnotations feature.
> Each extension that does something like:
> {code:JAVA}
> <X> void processAnnotatedType(@Observes ProcessAnnotatedType<X> event) {
> if (!event.getAnnotatedType().isAnnotationPresent(Foo.class)) {
> return;
> }
> // ...
> {code}
> can be extended to:
> {code:JAVA}
> <X> void processAnnotatedType(@Observes @WithAnnotations(Foo.class)
> ProcessAnnotatedType<X> event) {
> if (!event.getAnnotatedType().isAnnotationPresent(Foo.class)) {
> return;
> }
> // ...
> {code}
> This can yield performance boost in CDI 1.1+ environment because:
> 1) the observer method will be only called for annotated types that have the
> annotation, not for all the types in the deployment
> 2) the container may not event need to load the annotated type and its class
> at all if there are no observers requesting the type and the type does not
> represent a bean.
> In addition, this works nice in CDI 1.0 environment where the class
> definition for the annotation is not be found and is ignored.
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