Is there anyway to update #Bean at runtime? - spring

Question

For my project I want to download from an API and store this information in a map. Furthermore I want to have the map as a bean in another class. I suspect the API to update regularly so I have set a #Schedule for downloading the XML file from the API.
To the problem... How can I update the map with the information from the API every time the XML is downloaded. I do not want to reboot the application each time.
I am very new to the Spring framework so if there is a more elegant method to do this please let me know.
data class DataContainer(val dictionary: MutableMap<String, String>)
#Configuration
#Component
class DownloadRenhold {
var dict: MutableMap<String, String> = xmlToDict("/renhold.xml")
val dataContainer: DataContainer
#Bean
get() = DataContainer(dict)
fun download(link: String, path: String) {
URL(link).openStream().use { input ->
FileOutputStream(File(path)).use { output ->
input.copyTo(output)
}
}
}
#Scheduled(fixedRate = 5000)
fun scheduledDL() {
download("www.link.com","src/main/resources/renhold.xml")
dict = xmlToDict("/renhold.xml")
}
class Controller {
#GetMapping(value = ["/{orgnummer}"]) // #RequestMapping(value="/",method=RequestMethod.GET)
fun orgNrRequest(#PathVariable("orgnummer") nr: String): String? {
var actx = AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(DownloadRenhold::class.java)
var dataContainer = actx.getBean(DataContainer::class.java)
return dataContainer.dictionary[nr]
}
```

Answer 1

I would suggest to not have DataContainer as a bean directly. Instead inject DownRenhold into Controller as a singleton bean. Something along these lines:
// No need to make this class a Configuration. Plain Component would suffice.
// #Configuration
#Component
class DownloadRenhold {
var _dataContainer: DataContainer = null
var dataContainer: DataContainer
get() = _dataContainer
#Scheduled(fixedRate = 5000)
fun scheduledDL() {
_dataContainer = // do your download thing and create a DataContainer instance.
}
}
class Controller {
#Autowired
var dataProvider: DownloadRenhold
#GetMapping(value = ["/{orgnummer}"])
#RequestMapping(value="/",method=RequestMethod.GET)
fun orgNrRequest(#PathVariable("orgnummer") nr: String): String? {
dataProvider.dataContainer // access the current data container
}