I am implementing a module with Spring Cache mechanism. The module is generic and can cache different type of entities. So I don't want to change the Java code and want the user to configure the applicationcontext.xml file accordingly. He can put the name of the different types of entities within the applicationcontext.xml and the code should work. For e.g. -
<context:annotation-config/>
<cache:annotation-driven cache-manager="cacheManager"/>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.nokia.oss.sure.adapter"/>
<bean id="NetworkEntityService" class="com.nokia.oss.sure.adapter.cache.NetworkEntityServiceImpl"/>
<bean id="cacheManager" class="org.springframework.cache.support.SimpleCacheManager">
<property name="caches">
<set>
<bean class="org.springframework.cache.concurrent.ConcurrentMapCacheFactoryBean" name="NetworkEntity"/>
</set>
</property>
</bean>
He may change NetworkEntity to ServiceEntity and so on.
So in the Java code I need to mention -
#CacheConfig(cacheNames={"NetworkEntity"})
Or I can put the same for every method -
#CachePut(cacheNames="NetworkEntity", key="#entity.sureName")
public Entity addEntity(Entity entity) {
return entity;
}
But as I stated earlier, I don't want to put the cache name "NetworkEntity" in the Java code, but want to put the same in the applicationcontext.xml file. Is it possible?
Furthermore is it possible to omit all the annotations in the Java file? If I just use AbstractApplicationContext context = new GenericXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml"); is it possible to mention in the applicationContext.xml file what are the methods where I want to apply the #Cacheable annotation for e.g.
I searched a lot, couldn't find it anywhere.
Thanks
Nirmalya
I found out the answer. We can put the following in the applicationContext.xml -
<!-- define caching behavior -->
<cache:advice id="cacheAdviceInterface" cache-manager="cacheManager">
<cache:caching cache="NetworkEntity">
<cache:cacheable method="getEntity"/>
<cache:cache-put method="putEntity"/>
</cache:caching>
</cache:advice>
In that case we don't need to put the #CacheConfig, #CachePut etc annotations within the Java file.
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i have this definition for calling an EJB
<util:properties id="ejbJndiConfig" location="file:/path/to/ejb-jndi-config.properties" />
<jee:remote-slsb id="myEjbService"
jndi-name="myEjbName"
business-interface="foo.bar.MyBusinessInterface"
cache-home="false"
lookup-home-on-startup="false"
refresh-home-on-connect-failure="true"
environment-ref="ejbJndiConfig"
expose-access-context="true">
</jee:remote-slsb>
All is working great and an instance of:
org.springframework.ejb.access.SimpleRemoteStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean is created to call the EJB method. But what about if i want to change this default behaviour and change the used class?
With old style spring we can do something like this:
<bean id="service" class="org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiProxyFactoryBean">
<property name="remoteInvocationFactory" ref="invocationFactory"/>
....
</bean>
<bean id="invocationFactory" class="src.rmi.CustomRemoteInvocationFactory"/>
is possible with new definition style?
I'd like to be able to inject Guava TypeToken objects by specifying them as a bean in a Spring xml configuration. Is there a good way to do this? Has anyone written any cade/library to make this easier?
TypeToken seems to work by using reflection to introspect its generic types and is thus constructed using an anonymous class like:
new TypeToken<List<String>>() {}
Spring's xml config syntax doesn't seem to accept generics at all, presumably because it's built at runtime and doesn't "need" them (since generics are compile time checks and technically erased at runtime).
So the only way I know to instantiate a TypeToken bean is to do it in java:
TokenConfig.java:
#Configuration
public class TokenConfig {
#Bean
public TypeToken<List<String>> listOfStringsToken() {
return new TypeToken<List<String>>() {};
}
}
system-test-config.xml:
<beans>
<context:annotation-config/>
<bean class="com.acme.TokenConfig"/>
<bean class="com.acme.Consumer">
<property name="typeToken" ref="listOfStringsToken"/>
</bean>
</beans>
Is there a way to do this with just an xml config?
Maybe you can use spring FactoryBeans: look for factory methods at http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/beans.html
To answer my own question:
It IS possible to create a non-generic TypeToken using the static constructor TypeToken.of(Class), but this wont work for deeper generic types.
Here's the Spring xml config:
<bean class="com.google.common.reflect.TypeToken" factory-method="of">
<constructor-arg type="java.lang.Class" value="java.lang.Integer" />
</bean>
Which is equivelent to:
TypeToken.of(Integer.class)
and
new TypeToken<Integer>() {}
I also found a way to use the TypeToken.of(Type) constructor with a ParameterizedType constructed using Google Guice's Types utility. Guava has one too, but it's not public. :'(
I'm not sure if this is quite as robust as using TypeToken/TypeCapture, but it seems to work. Unfortunately it's pretty ugly and long... (maybe someone can simplify it?)
<bean class="com.google.common.reflect.TypeToken" factory-method="of">
<constructor-arg index="0">
<bean class="com.google.inject.util.Types" factory-method="newParameterizedType">
<constructor-arg index="0">
<value type="java.lang.Class">java.util.List</value>
</constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg index="1">
<array><value type="java.lang.Class">java.lang.String</value></array>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
Which is equivelent to:
new TypeToken<List<String>() {}
I have one spring configuration file with entry like below...
<bean id="beanId" class="a.b.c.d.MyBean">
<property name="firstProperty" value="report_{date}.xls"/>
</bean>
Somewhere in my java code, I am fetching this bean and then its property "firstProperty" later.
I am little curious, when I get the value of property "firstProperty" I get report_.xls i.e report_20130307.xls
I have searched all my code including bundles, xmls but not clear that where we are setting {date} with todays timestamp.
Do you have any clue where we can do this?
Thanks
Jai
It is the property-placeholder mechanism.
Read more on http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.2.x/spring-framework-reference/html/xsd-config.html#xsd-config-body-schemas-context-pphc.
In most of the cases, the values to property are set from properties file using expression language. Like
<bean id="dataSource" class="a.b.c.d.DataSource">
<property name="databaseUrl" value="{db.url}"/>
</bean>
Or if the property is a ref to another bean, e.g. Object B is member variable of Object A.
<bean id="refA" class="a.b.c.d.A">
<property name="b" ref="refB"/>
</bean>
<bean id="refB" class="a.b.c.d.B">
</bean>
Its quite simple guys...as we know setter are called for each property. So same in my case,
In bean we are setting variable "firstProperty" + today timestamp like below.
public void setfirstProperty(String firstProperty) {
this.firstProperty = firstProperty + <methodToReplaceDateStringWithTimeStamp>;
}
Thanks
Jai
In an applicationcontext.xml, is it possible to set a value which can be used later in SPEL expressions?
For example is there a way to do this?:
<setProperty name="foo" value="someval" />
<bean id="beanId" name="beanName" class="SomeClass">
<property name="someVal" value="blah_${foo}"/>
</bean>
The actual reason I want to do this is that I use statements to create entity managers which are used in many different application contexts. The problem is that the entity managers require a unique name which is used by Bitronix to create a local file which breaks if multiple unit tests run at the same time using the same name for that field. To set that unique name I currently have a separate properties file for each application context and import it to get a unique name from it.
Rather than doing that nonsense I'd rather just do this:
<setProperty name="uniqueName" value="someUniqueName" />
<import resource="classpath*:shared/db/fooDb.xml" />
You can do this using Spring-el and util namespace:
<util:properties id="myprops">
<prop key="foo">someval</prop>
</util:properties>
<bean id="beanId" name="beanName" class="SomeClass">
<property name="someVal" value="blah_#{myprops.foo}"/>
</bean>
In a Spring 3 based web (portlet) application I have a controller with a method like this:
#RenderMapping
public ModelAndView handleRenderRequest(...,#RequestParam MyClass myObject)
{
...
}
Now I wonder: How do I tell spring how to convert the request parameter to MyClass. I found information about property editors and about the Converter interface and there seem to be some implications that Converter is the successor of the property editor, but nobody seems to like being explicit about it.
I implemented the converter interface for String to MyClass conversion. But how do I tell Spring about it? I am using annotation based configuration wherever possible, so I checked whether spring will detect the Converter from my classpath automatically, but it does not.
So thought that the part Configuring a ConversionService from the manual wants to tell me that I've got to add the following to my applicationContext.xml which I did:
<bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.context.support.ConversionServiceFactoryBean">
<property name="converters">
<list>
<bean class="some.package.MyConverter"/>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
Bit still:
org.springframework.beans.ConversionNotSupportedException: Failed to
convert value [...]
So what am I missing? And is there a way, to just configure a package and let spring scan this package for converters and register them automatically? And say that in one certain method I want to use a different converter than in all other methods. For example I want an integer that has a Luhn-Checksum to be checked and the checksum removed, how can I do that? Something like #RequestParam(converter=some.package.MyConverter.class) would be great.
EDIT
Ok, I just caught in the documentation:
Use the Formatter SPI when you're working in a client environment,
such as a web application, and need to parse and print localized field
values
So I guess that means I should use the Formatter SPI, yet a third possibility next to property editors and converters (I think I could really to with a comparison table or the like). I did implement the Parser interface as well and tried to register my converter using:
<bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.format.support.FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean">
<property name="converters">
<set>
<bean class="some.package.SortOrderEnumConverterSpring"/>
</set>
</property>
</bean>
As you can see I used "set" instead of "list" for specifying the converters. I set a debugging breakpoint in the FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean.setConverters method which did not fire upon using list, but it did fire on using set.
Additionally I added
<mvc:annotation-driven conversion-service="conversionService"/>
And the namespace for the mvc-prefix to my applicationContext. But still I get the conversion not supported exception.
I also tried going back to the converter approach and changed in my applicationContext.xml file the parameter list for converters from list to set, but that did not change anything either.
EDIT2
As digitaljoel pointed out it is possible to set different converters per controller using an initBinder method. I applied this to my controller:
#Autowired
private ConversionService conversionService;
#InitBinder
public void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder)
{
binder.setConversionService(conversionService);
}
And in my applicationContext.xml:
<bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.context.support.ConversionServiceFactoryBean">
<property name="converters">
<set>
<bean class="some.package.with.MyConverter"/>
</set>
</property>
</bean>
And all suddenly the conversion works just fine :-). But I am not quite happy about having to apply this to each and every of my controllers. There must be a way to just set it in my applicationContext for everyone, is there not? Good to know that I can override default if I need to (after all I asked for that), but I still want to set defaults.
And what about the Formatter stuff. Shouldn't I be using that instead of Converter?
Spring Portlet MVC 3.0 does not support
<mvc:annotation-driven conversion-service="conversionService"/>
Visit https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-6817 for more info about this.
However you can add this to your common applicationContext
<bean
class="org.springframework.web.portlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
<property name="webBindingInitializer">
<bean
class="org.springframework.web.bind.support.ConfigurableWebBindingInitializer">
<property name="conversionService">
<list>
<ref bean="conversionService" />
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
This way you do not need add #InitBinder to every single controller
and of course
<bean id="conversionService"
class="org.springframework.format.support.FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean">
<property name="converters">
<list>
<!-- converter implementations here -->
</list>
</property>
</bean>
You are correct that Converter (and ConverterFactory) are the successors to property editors. Your problem may be that you are not accepting the appropriate type as a parameter to your converter, but that's hard to say without seeing the converter code. If you are expecting Long or Integer you may actually be getting a String from Spring and need to perform that key conversion yourself first.
As for configuration, I believe you need to list all of your converters in the bean configuration in your xml. If you annotate your converter implementation with #Component you might be able to reference it by the bean name instead of the fully qualified path, but I have only tried that for a ConverterFactory, not a Converter.
Finally, on specific converters, it looks like you may be able to configure the conversion service at the controller level (see Javi's answer on Setting up a mixed configuration for annotation-based Spring MVC controllers ) and then you could just place that method (and others that require that controller) into a controller that uses a secondary conversion service which you ought to be able to inject by name with the #Resource annotation.
Implement a WebArgumentResolver:
public class MyArgumentResolver implements WebArgumentResolver
{
#Override
public Object resolveArgument(MethodParameter methodParameter,
NativeWebRequest webRequest) throws Exception
{
Class<?> paramType = methodParameter.getParameterType();
if (paramType == MyClass.class)
{
String parameterName = methodParameter.getParameterName();
String stringParameter = webRequest.getParameter(parameterName);
return convert(stringParameter);
}
return UNRESOLVED;
}
}
And register it in your applicationContext.xml:
<bean class="org.springframework.web.portlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
<property name="customArgumentResolver">
<bean class="com.dshs.eakte.util.MyArgumentResolver" />
</property>
</bean>
This works and even has the advantage of allowing parameter conversion that is based on multiple method parameters.
To achieve something similar to what you're doing, I found this blog entry useful.
i think you need to use something like
public ModelAndView handleRenderRequest(...,#ModelAttribute("myObject") MyClass myObject)