geronimo-jcdi_2.0_spec/src/main/java/javax/enterprise/inject/spi/ProcessBeanAttributes.java

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package javax.enterprise.inject.spi;

/**
 * Each {@link AnnotatedType} gets scanned by the CDI container and turned
 * into initial {@link BeanAttributes}. Those BeanAttributes can be modified
 * by observing this very ProcessBeanAttributes system event.
 * The modified BeanAttributes will get used to construct the final {@link Bean}.
 *
 */
public interface ProcessBeanAttributes<T>
{
    /**
     * @return the {@link AnnotatedType} for bean classes, {@link AnnotatedMethod} for producer methods and
     *          {@link AnnotatedField} for producer fields.
     */
    public Annotated getAnnotated();

    /**
     * @return the BeanAttributes parsed from the {@link Annotated}
     */
    public BeanAttributes<T> getBeanAttributes();

    /**
     * Use the given BeanAttributes to later create the {@link Bean} from it.
     * @param beanAttributes
     */
    public void setBeanAttributes(BeanAttributes<T> beanAttributes);

    /**
     * Tell the container it should ignore this Bean.
     */
    public void veto();

    /**
     * Adding definition error. Container aborts
     * processing after calling all observers.
     *
     * @param t throwable
     */
    public void addDefinitionError(Throwable t);
}