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Re: [jaxrs-dev] CDI resource classes and lifecycle


On Apr 7, 2018, at 5:31 AM, Christian Kaltepoth <christian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

I've a question regarding CDI and the lifecycle of resource classes.

The JAX-RS spec states:
  • 3.1.1 Lifecycle and Environment:
    • "By default a new resource class instance is created for each request to that resource."
  • 11.2.3 Context and Dependency Injection (CDI):
    • "In a product that supports CDI, implementations MUST support the use of CDI-style Beans as root resource classes"

The example CDI resource in section 11.2.3 looks like this:

  @Path("/cdibean")
  public class CdiBeanResource {

      @Inject MyOtherCdiBean bean;  // CDI injected bean

      // ...

   }

Please note that the resources doesn't have a scope annotation. In this case CDI will assume @Dependent scope.

 The default scope for JAX-RS should be one per request. However that is accomplished in the CDI case is not important. 


Isn't this weird? Shouldn't be the default scope for CDI resources be @RequestScoped? Is it up to the user to set the "correct" scope? It is somehow surprising that @Dependent scoped beans work at all because of the way @Dependent is defined.

 Given that resource class instances are not injected anywhere, but just created by the implementations, I’m not really sure what @Dependent means in this context. Again, by default, there should be one per request as mandated by the spec.

— Santiago



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