Reference to a bean in a constructor of a different class - spring

Question

I am trying to migrate a legacy project into Spring Boot. There is an auto-generated class I've been struggling with. Please see below the original class that provides the interface for a web service.
/**
* This class was generated by the JAX-WS RI. JAX-WS RI 2.2.9-b130926.1035 Generated source version: 2.2
*
*/
#WebServiceClient(name = "SomeWebService", targetNamespace = "http://www.somewebservice.com")
public class SomeWebService extends Service {
private final static URL SomeWebService_WSDL_LOCATION;
private final static WebServiceException SomeWebService_EXCEPTION;
private final static QName SomeWebService_QNAME = new QName("http://www.somewebservice.com", "SomeWebService");
static {
URL url = null;
WebServiceException e = null;
try {
url = new URL(DataAccessLayer.systemProps.getProperty("configurable_service_url"));
} catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
e = new WebServiceException(ex);
}
SomeWebService_WSDL_LOCATION = url;
SomeWebService_EXCEPTION = e;
}
public SomeWebService() {
super(__getWsdlLocation(), SomeWebService_QNAME);
}
public SomeWebService(WebServiceFeature... features) {
super(__getWsdlLocation(), SomeWebService_QNAME, features);
}
public SomeWebService(URL wsdlLocation) {
super(wsdlLocation, SomeWebService_QNAME);
}
public SomeWebService(URL wsdlLocation, WebServiceFeature... features) {
super(wsdlLocation, SomeWebService_QNAME, features);
}
public SomeWebService(URL wsdlLocation, QName serviceName) {
super(wsdlLocation, serviceName);
}
public SomeWebService(URL wsdlLocation, QName serviceName, WebServiceFeature... features) {
super(wsdlLocation, serviceName, features);
}
/**
*
* #return returns SomeWebService
*/
#WebEndpoint(name = "SomeWebServicePort")
public SomeWebService getSomeWebServicePort() {
return super.getPort(new QName("http://www.somewebservice.com", "SomeWebServicePort"), SomeWebService.class);
}
/**
*
* #param features
* A list of {#link javax.xml.ws.WebServiceFeature} to configure on the proxy. Supported features not in
* the <code>features</code> parameter will have their default values.
* #return returns SomeWebService
*/
#WebEndpoint(name = "SomeWebServicePort")
public SomeWebService getSomeWebServicePort(WebServiceFeature... features) {
return super.getPort(new QName("http://www.somewebservice.com", "SomeWebServicePort"), SomeWebService.class, features);
}
private static URL __getWsdlLocation() {
if (SomeWebService_EXCEPTION != null) {
throw SomeWebService_EXCEPTION;
}
return SomeWebService_WSDL_LOCATION;
}
}
Please note the line:
url = new URL(DataAccessLayer.systemProps.getProperty("configurable_service_url"));
This is how it is configured in the legacy code, in a static block...
The first thing I did is add a config class to pick up properties from a file as follows:
#Configuration
#PropertySource({"classpath:someWebservice.properties"})
public class SomeWebserviceConfiguration {
}
However, I am not able to figure out a way to create a bean (a url), and then use the bean in the constructors.
Can someone give me some ideas or point me in the right direction? Thanks so much!

Answer 1

OK. I have found a solution. The code looks a bit unseemly. But it works.
First I need to add a config class, and make it ApplicationContextAware.
#Configuration
#PropertySource({ "classpath:somewebservice.properties" })
public class WebServiceConfiguration implements ApplicationContextAware {
private static ApplicationContext ctx;
#Value("${configurable_service_url}")
private String serviceUrlProp;
#Bean
#Qualifier("serviceUrl")
public URL getServiceUrl() throws MalformedURLException {
return new URL(serviceUrlProp);
}
#Override
public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext appContext) throws BeansException {
ctx = appContext;
}
public static ApplicationContext getApplicationContext() {
return ctx;
}
}
This is where the property "configurable_service_url" gets picked up. We also create a URL bean and make it available in the container. The static ApplicationContext is for the web service class to grab and then it will get hold of the bean.
/**
* This class was generated by the JAX-WS RI. JAX-WS RI 2.2.9-b130926.1035 Generated source version: 2.2
*
*/
#WebServiceClient(name = "SomeWebService", targetNamespace = "http://www.somewebservice.com")
public class SomeWebService extends Service {
private final static QName SomeWebService_QNAME = new QName("http://www.somewebservice.com", "SomeWebService");
public SomeWebService() {
super((URL) BlazeConfiguration.getApplicationContext().getBean("getServiceUrl"), SomeWebService_QNAME);
}
public SomeWebService(WebServiceFeature... features) {
super((URL) BlazeConfiguration.getApplicationContext().getBean("getServiceUrl"), SomeWebService_QNAME, features);
}
public SomeWebService(URL wsdlLocation) {
super(wsdlLocation, SomeWebService_QNAME);
}
public SomeWebService(URL wsdlLocation, WebServiceFeature... features) {
super(wsdlLocation, SomeWebService_QNAME, features);
}
public SomeWebService(URL wsdlLocation, QName serviceName) {
super(wsdlLocation, serviceName);
}
public SomeWebService(URL wsdlLocation, QName serviceName, WebServiceFeature... features) {
super(wsdlLocation, serviceName, features);
}
/**
*
* #return returns SomeWebService
*/
#WebEndpoint(name = "SomeWebServicePort")
public SomeWebService getSomeWebServicePort() {
return super.getPort(new QName("http://www.somewebservice.com", "SomeWebServicePort"), SomeWebService.class);
}
/**
*
* #param features
* A list of {#link javax.xml.ws.WebServiceFeature} to configure on the proxy. Supported features not in
* the <code>features</code> parameter will have their default values.
* #return returns SomeWebService
*/
#WebEndpoint(name = "SomeWebServicePort")
public SomeWebService getSomeWebServicePort(WebServiceFeature... features) {
return super.getPort(new QName("http://www.somewebservice.com", "SomeWebServicePort"), SomeWebService.class, features);
}
}
In the constructor
public SomeWebService() {
super((URL) BlazeConfiguration.getApplicationContext().getBean("getServiceUrl"), SomeWebService_QNAME);
}
I first tried to use the name "serviceUrl". But it complained that it could not find it in the application context. I had to print out all the available beans in the container to see that I needed to use "getServiceUrl", which is the method name, to retrieve the bean.