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JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform

By : Kenneth Finnigan
Book Image

JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform

By: Kenneth Finnigan

Overview of this book

CDI simplifies dependency injection for modern application developers by taking advantage of Java annotations and moving away from complex XML, while at the same time providing an extensible and powerful programming model. "JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform" is a practical guide to CDI's dependency injection concepts using clear and easy-to-follow examples. This will help you take advantage of the power behind CDI, as well as providing a firm understanding of how to use it within your applications. "JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform" covers all the major aspects of CDI, breaking it down into understandable pieces. This book will take you through many examples of how these concepts can be utilized, helping you get up and running quickly and painlessly. "JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform" gives you an insight into the different scopes provided by CDI and the use cases for which each has been designed. You will learn everything about dependency injection, scopes, events, producers, and more from JBoss Weld CDI, as well as how producers can create new beans for consumption within your application. You will also learn how to build a real world application with CDI using JSF and AngularJS for different web interfaces.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Programmatic lookup of contextual instances


We may encounter some situations where it's not convenient to obtain a contextual instance through injection, which are as follows:

  • Either the bean type or qualifiers of an injection point may vary at runtime

  • In some deployments, there may be no bean that satisfies the bean type and qualifiers of an injection point

  • We want to loop through all the beans of a specific bean type

For these situations we obtain an instance of Instance parameterized to the bean type we require:

@Inject
Instance<BookSearch> bookSearch;

To retrieve a contextual instance:

BookSearch search = bookSearch.get();

We can also alter the bean types that will be retrieved from Instance by adding qualifiers either to the injection point or passing them to select().

Specifying qualifiers at the injection is simple:

@Inject
@Book(Category.NONFICTION)
Instance<BookSearch> bookSearch;

But sometimes it's necessary for the qualifiers to be specified dynamically. For us to use dynamic...