A simple Spring example to show you how to dependency inject a bean via setter method, the most common used DI method.
1. IOutputGenerator
An interface and implemntation class of it.
package com.mkyong.output;
public interface IOutputGenerator
{
public void generateOutput();
}
package com.mkyong.output.impl;
import com.mkyong.output.IOutputGenerator;
public class CsvOutputGenerator implements IOutputGenerator {
public void generateOutput() {
System.out.println("This is Csv Output Generator");
}
}
2. Helper class
A helper class, later use Spring to DI the IOutputGenerator
.
package com.mkyong.output;
import com.mkyong.output.IOutputGenerator;
public class OutputHelper {
IOutputGenerator outputGenerator;
public void generateOutput() {
outputGenerator.generateOutput();
}
//DI via setter method
public void setOutputGenerator(IOutputGenerator outputGenerator) {
this.outputGenerator = outputGenerator;
}
}
3. Spring configuration
Configure bean in Spring configuration file, and reference the bean “CsvOutputGenerator
” into “OutputHelper
”, via property
tag, ref
attribute.
In this case, Spring will DI the bean “CsvOutputGenerator
” into “OutputHelper
” class, via setter method “setOutputGenerator(IOutputGenerator outputGenerator)
”.
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">
<bean id="OutputHelper" class="com.mkyong.output.OutputHelper">
<property name="outputGenerator" ref="CsvOutputGenerator" />
</bean>
<bean id="CsvOutputGenerator" class="com.mkyong.output.impl.CsvOutputGenerator" />
</beans>
4. Run it
Load everything, and run it.
package com.mkyong.common;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
import com.mkyong.output.OutputHelper;
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
"SpringBeans.xml");
OutputHelper output = (OutputHelper)context.getBean("OutputHelper");
output.generateOutput();
}
}
Output
This is Csv Output Generator