CDI Events: Obtaining The InjectionPoint From EventMetaData

Starting with Java EE 7, a CDI event:


package com.airhacks.events;

import javax.enterprise.event.Event;
import javax.inject.Inject;

public class MetaDataResource {

    @Inject
    Event<String> event;

    public void fire() {
        event.fire("hey duke");
    }

}


is delivered with injectable javax.enterprise.inject.spi.EventMetadata:


import javax.enterprise.event.Observes;
import javax.enterprise.inject.spi.EventMetadata;
import javax.enterprise.inject.spi.InjectionPoint;

public class Listener {

    public void onArrival(@Observes String event, EventMetadata metaData) {
        InjectionPoint ip = metaData.getInjectionPoint();
        Class clazz = ip.getMember().getDeclaringClass();
        String fieldName = ip.getMember().getName();
        System.out.println(clazz.getName() + "-> " + fieldName);
    }

}

The code creates the following output:


 com.airhacks.events.MetaDataResource-> event

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Comments:

I hoped the EventMetaData would provide the calling method fire() instead of the injection point event field.

I liked that multiple @Observes all get called in one fire().

Wondering if @Observes method can be executed in a separate REQUIRES_NEW transaction. Then it can db persist new audit log entity, even when the first transaction is rollback.

Question on the side; if a @Stateless gets injected with a @Stateful, what creates and destroys the stateful? Is a new @Statefull injected at each call to the stateless? Is the stateless calling a @Remove method. How to let the @Statefull having a REQUIRES_NEW? Is this architecturally wrong?

Posted by Rene on January 02, 2016 at 07:28 PM CET #

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