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  1. CDI Specification Issues
  2. CDI-719

Allow attributes on scope annotations

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    • Feature Request
    • Resolution: Obsolete
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    • 2.Future
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      The 2.0 specification states that scope annotations with attributes result in non-portable behavior:
      https://docs.jboss.org/cdi/spec/2.0/cdi-spec.html#defining_new_scope_type

      At the same time Java EE standards like JSF use attributes on some of their scope annotations.:http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/faces/flow/FlowScoped.html

      There are use cases of applications that have a well defined structure, but the user must specify multiple copies of that structure. One can imagine a server application that must handle multiple endpoints, so the user must have the means to create multiple copies of a request processing pipeline. E.g. @RequestScoped("login"), @RequestScoped("shopping-card").

      Ideally CDI should use annotation instances, rather than annotation classes to select contexts.
      http://docs.jboss.org/cdi/api/2.0/javax/enterprise/inject/spi/BeanAttributes.html#getScope--
      http://docs.jboss.org/cdi/api/2.0/javax/enterprise/inject/spi/BeanManager.html#getContext-java.lang.Class-
      http://docs.jboss.org/cdi/api/2.0/javax/enterprise/context/spi/Context.html#getScope--

      If this is not possible at least BeanAttributes can have a convenience method to get the scope annotation instance, and the specification should explicitly allow the use of attributes on scope annotations.

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            rinswind Todor Boev
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