CDI/WELD referrencing a custom qualifier from html (xhtml) page directly

[specialed]

Hi all,

I've started a question over @StackOverflow and would like to know what this community is thinking about it:

Link

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17851697/cdi-weld-referrencing-a-custom-qualifier-from-html-xhtml-page-directly

Description

While having a custom qualifier for CDI support as followed:

    @Qualifier

    @Retention(RUNTIME)

    @Target({METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE})

    public @interface QualifiedFooBean {

    }

    @QualifiedFooBean

    public class FooBean implements ImplFooBean {

    @Inject @QAnotherBean

    private ImplAnotherBean otherBean;

    @Inject

    private ConfigBean configBean; //no custom qualifier required (no interface)

    }

    public interface ImplFooBean {

    }

I would like to bind FooBean #{fooBean} directly without requiring a wrapper or processor (seen from many examples). The annotation "Named" (in class FooBean) seems not to work for my class layout. I would like to know if there are any other solutions instead of a wrapper, otherwise code will seem overbloated and all my static pages are already referring to #{fooBean}.

Wrapper solution:

    @Named

    @SessionScoped

    public class FooBeanProcessor implements Serializable {

    @Inject @QualifiedFooBean

    private ImplFooBean fooBean;

    //getter and setter for FooBean required

    ....

    }

I have to create two additional classes in order to migrate my project from JSF annotations to CDI/Weld. Or maybe I'm not aware of the whole potential of CDI. If there aren't any other ways, I'll be required to choose the wrapper solution. Has anyone any idea?

[luksa]

So you're saying you are able to use #{fooBeanProcessor}, but not #{fooBean} (when you put @Named on FooBean)?

[specialed]

No, I'm saying putting the annotation "@Named" in FooBean (underneath or above "@QualifiedFooBean") does not work, also explained in paranthesis. I haven't created wrapper classes yet, because I would like know if it's worth creating those wrapper classes (I need 5 of those wrappers for my project and would have to update 100 xhtml pages in order to work with wrappers for the whole project). I'm looking for an alternative solution before doing all these efforts.

And yes, I guess it would work with the wrapper classes. But I always compare effort against multiple example solutions to choose the right (less effort) solution. If anyone can confirm that there are no other solutions, then the answer is obvious.

[luksa]

You shouldn't need wrapper classes. What do you mean with "does not work"? Do you get null for #{fooBean}?

[specialed]

Target Unreachable, identifier 'fooBean' resolved to null

I receive this with and without the "@Named" (additionally "@SessionScoped" but that's not the point right now) annotation in class FooBean

PS: StackOverFlow question just got updated from myself to describe my issue more precisely.

[luksa]

I need to ask: do you have a beans.xml file in the correct place?

[specialed]

I have to admit, I did not have one at all....

After creating it (WEB-INF/beans.xml), I received validation erros and corrected them accordingly... It seems to work now.

Thank you, Marko