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+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ *  distributed with this work for additional information
+ *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ *  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ *  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *  under the License.
+ */
+
+package javax.enterprise.context.control;
+
+
+import javax.interceptor.InterceptorBinding;
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
+import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
+import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
+
+/**
+ * The container provides a built in interceptor that may be used to annotate classes and methods to indicate
+ * that a request context should be activated when this method is invoked.
+ *
+ * The request context will be activated before the method is called, and deactivated when the method invocation is
+ * complete (regardless of any exceptions being thrown).  If the context is already active, it is ignored, neither
+ * activated nor deactivated.
+ *
+ */
+@InterceptorBinding
+@Target({METHOD, TYPE})
+@Retention(RUNTIME)
+@Documented
+public @interface ActivateRequestContext
+{
+}
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+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ *  distributed with this work for additional information
+ *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ *  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ *  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *  under the License.
+ */
+
+package javax.enterprise.context.control;
+
+import javax.enterprise.context.ContextNotActiveException;
+
+/**
+ * The CDI container provides a built in instance of RequestContextController that is dependent scoped for the purposes
+ * of activating and deactivating.  For example:
+ *
+ * <pre>
+ *    &#064;Inject
+ *    private RequestContextController requestContextController;
+ *
+ *    public void doRequest(String body) {
+ *       // activate request context
+ *       requestContextController.activate();
+ *
+ *       // do work in a request context.
+ *
+ *       // deactivate the request context
+ *       requestContextController.deactivate();
+ *    }
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * Once the request context has been deactivated, you may activate it once again, creating a brand new request context.
+ * The activated request context is bound to the current thread, any injection points targeting a request scoped bean
+ * will be satisfied with the same request scoped objects.
+ *
+ */
+public interface RequestContextController
+{
+    /**
+     * Activates a RequestContext for the current thread if one is not already active.
+     * @return true if the context was activated by this invocation, false if not.
+     */
+    boolean activate();
+
+    /**
+     * Deactivates the current Request Context if it was activated by this context controller.  If the context is active
+     * but was not activated by this controller, then it may not be deactivated by this controller,
+     * meaning this method will do nothing.
+     *
+     * If the context is not active, a {@see ContextNotActiveException} is thrown.
+     *
+     * @throws ContextNotActiveException if the context is not active
+     */
+    void deactivate() throws ContextNotActiveException;
+}
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