Jersey and HK2 ServiceLocator

Question

I\'m trying to initialize some components in my Jersey application in the Application constructor (the thing that inherits from ResourceConfig) . It looks like this

Answer 1

I am going to assume you are starting up a servlet and have a class extending org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig and your bindings are correctly registered (e.g. using a Binder and registerInstances). If you then want to access the ServiceLocator in order to perform additional initialization, you have two choices:

One approach is to register a ContainerLifecycleListener (as seen here in this post):

// In Application extends ResourceConfig constructor
register(new ContainerLifecycleListener() {

        @Override
        public void onStartup(final Container container) {
            // access the ServiceLocator here
            final ServiceLocator serviceLocator = container.getApplicationHandler().getInjectionManager().getInstance(ServiceLocator.class);

            // Perform whatever with serviceLocator
        }

        @Override
        public void onReload(final Container container) {
            /* ... */}

        @Override
        public void onShutdown(final Container container) {
            /* ... */}
    });

The second approach is to use a Feature, which can also be auto-discovered using @Provider:

@Provider
public final class StartupListener implements Feature {

    private final ServiceLocator sl;

    @Inject
    public ProvisionStartupListener(final ServiceLocator sl) {
        this.sl = sl;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean configure(final FeatureContext context) {
        // Perform whatever action with serviceLocator
        return true;
    }