JAVA EE: How to Inject Properties using Spring dependency injection by constructor?

Tuesday, 12 June 2018

How to Inject Properties using Spring dependency injection by constructor?

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How to Inject Properties using Spring dependency injection by constructor?

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0%20http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.ram.core</groupId>

    <artifactId>SpringDemo</artifactId>

    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <name>SpringDemo</name>

    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <properties>

        <spring.version>5.0.2.RELEASE</spring.version>

    </properties>

    <dependencies>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>junit</groupId>

            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>

            <version>3.8.1</version>

            <scope>test</scope>

        </dependency>

        <!-- Spring 5 dependencies -->

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>

            <version>${spring.version}</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>

            <version>${spring.version}</version>

        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

</project>

FruitShop.java

package com.ram.core;

import java.util.Properties;

public class FruitShop

{

     private String shopName;

     private Properties availableFruits;

     public FruitShop(String shopName, Properties availableFruits)

     {

         System.out.println(

                        "FruitShop(String shopName, Properties availableFruits) "

                                + "constructor is called by the Spring container");

         this.shopName = shopName;

         this.availableFruits = availableFruits;

      }

      public void displayFruitShopInfo()

      {

           System.out.println("FruitShop [shopName=" + shopName

                        + ", availableFruits=" + availableFruits + "]");

      }

}

applicationContext.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 

    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.3.xsd

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.3.xsd">

    <bean id="fruitShop" class="com.ram.core.FruitShop">

        <constructor-arg type="String" value="Fruit Mart"></constructor-arg>

        <constructor-arg type="java.util.Properties">

            <props>

                <prop key="1">Apple</prop>

                <prop key="2">Grapes</prop>

            </props>

        </constructor-arg>

    </bean>

</beans>

App.java

package com.ram.core;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;

import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class App

{

    public static void main(String[] args)

    {

        ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(

                "applicationContext.xml");

        System.out.println("---------------------------------------");

        FruitShop fruitShop = (FruitShop) context.getBean("fruitShop");

        System.out.println(

                "Got fruitShop object from the ApplicationContext(Spring Container)");

        fruitShop.displayFruitShopInfo();

    }

}

Output

May 04, 2018 9:16:38 AM org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext prepareRefresh

INFO: Refreshing org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext@5b37e0d2: startup date [Fri May 04 09:16:38 IST 2018]; root of context hierarchy

May 04, 2018 9:16:38 AM org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions

INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [applicationContext.xml]

FruitShop(String shopName, Properties availableFruits) constructor is called by the Spring container

---------------------------------------

Got fruitShop object from the ApplicationContext(Spring Container)

FruitShop [shopName=Fruit Mart, availableFruits={2=Grapes, 1=Apple}]