Short story: I have a CDI @SessionScoped bean (annotation from javax.enterprise.context and not from javax.faces) called UserContextBean. I'd like to actually do something when an HTTP session is created.
So naturally I assumed that @PostConstruct would do the trick: get called only once when an instance of this bean is constructed.
However, as per the documentation here, they say that the PostConstruct method is called :
When the managed bean is injected into a component, CDI calls the method after all injection has occurred and after all initializers have been called.
I had assumed that the post construct method would be called once, per session. However, practice is consistent with the documentation. This bean is injected into a @RequestScoped bean (also CDI) which serves as a backing bean for a JSF page and the PostConstruct method is called for every request.
I realize (now) that this is the behavior. But would there be any other way of doing a one time per session initialization?
Some code, although not very relevant:
@Named(UserContextBean.BEAN_NAME)
@SessionScoped
public class UserContextBean implements Serializable {
...
@PostConstruct
private void createSession() {
System.out.println("UserContext created.");
}
}
The request scoped bean where I inject this:
public abstract class WebPageDataProvider extends AbstractViewDataProvider {
@Inject
private UserContextBean userContext;
I was also thinking to use an HttpSessionListener and initialize the session bean, but it already sounds messy.
EDIT
Just noticed now that the HTTP session is not even created. If I create the session "manually", by calling getSession(true) (I do this inside a phase listener, for testing purposes, but only because it was already there) then everything works as expected.
