[DELTASPIKE-56] Add BeanManagerProvider.getRequiredBeanManager() method

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 0.2-incubating
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Gerhard Petracek
• Reporter: Christian Kaltepoth
• Created: 22/Jan/12 18:41
• Updated: 14/Feb/12 08:00
• Resolved: 06/Feb/12 16:49

Description

While reviewing the implementation of BeanManagerProvider I saw that getBeanManager() may return null in some rare circumstances. Unfortunately this forces everyone calling this method to check the result for null. I think most code calling the method absolutely requires the BeanManager and cannot proceed without it.

Therefore it would be nice to have some alternative getBeanManager() method that doesn't return null if the BeanManager is not available but instead throws a meaningful runtime exception. That's what Solder does per default. Calling Solder's BeanManagerLocator.getBeanManager() without a BeanManager being available will result in a BeanManagerUnavailableException.

The attached patch adds a method getRequiredBeanManager() to the BeanManagerProvider implementing this behavior.

I'm not sure if this minor thing should be discussed on the mailing list. If you think this should be discussed, please let me know, then I'll start a topic on deltaspike-dev.

Issue Links

• is part of: DELTASPIKE-72 BeanManagerProvider#getBeanManager should fail fast if there is no bean-manager