Working with multiple CDI qualifiers

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Working with multiple CDI qualifiers

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Apr. 23, 11 · Java Zone ·

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An injection point may specify multiple qualifiers. When you specify multiple qualifiers, only the beans that annotated with those qualifiers will be injected - a bean can have multiple qualifiers and injection points only need to specify enough qualifiers to uniquely match a bean. Per example, let us suppose that you have the below two qualifiers – each qualifier represent a tennis player:

package com.racquets;

//imports here

@Qualifier
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target({METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE})
public @interface JoWilfriedTsonga {
}

package com.racquets;

//imports here

@Qualifier
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target({METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE})
public @interface RafaelNadal {
}

Both top players, Rafael Nadal and Jo-Wilfred Tonga play with the same racquet, a Babolat AeroPro Drive GT. Therefore, a possible implementation of RacquetType type can be annotated with both qualifiers from above:

package com.racquets;

@RafaelNadal @JoWilfriedTsonga
public class AeroProDriveGTRacquet implements RacquetType {

    @Override
    public String getRacquetType() {
        return ("Babolat AeroPro Drive GT");
    }
}

Now, at the injection point you must specify both qualifiers, like below:

package com.racquets;

import javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Named;

@RequestScoped
@Named
public class AeroProDriveGTBean {

    @Inject @RafaelNadal @JoWilfriedTsonga RacquetType aeroprodrivegtRacquet;
    private String aeroprodrivegtRacquetName;

    public String getAeroprodrivegtRacquetName() {
        aeroprodrivegtRacquetName = aeroprodrivegtRacquet.getRacquetType();
        return aeroprodrivegtRacquetName;
    }    
}

From a JSF page, you can test multiple qualifiers like this:

<br/><h3><b>Multiple qualifiers</b></h3>        
<b>Rafael Nadal and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga racquet:</b>
<h:outputText value="#{aeroProDriveGTBean.aeroprodrivegtRacquetName}" /><br/>

The output is in figure below: