Autowired Domain/Entity classes retains Old values - spring

I have a mapper class for an incoming Event message.
Once the event message comes to the application, the mapper class sets the values in the entity object and saves it in the Database.
I have Autowired the entity object in my mapper class.
Whenever a new event comes in, the autowired entity object is still having the Old/previous values.
Is autowiring of Domain/Entity object possible in this case or I should go with 'New' keyword instead of Autowiring as Spring bean.
I see some posts about using #Configurable. I am not sure which is the best coding practice in this case?
#Service
public class LegacyEventMapper {
#Autowired
private LegacyEvent legacyEvent;
#Autowired
private LegacyEntity legacyEntity;
public void mapLegacyNotificationDetails(LegacyScheduleEvent body) throws Exception {
//Setting the values into the Entity object
Thanks

I have no idea why you actually want to #Autowire an #Entity and make it spring aware. This is wrong. You can do it, but it makes absolutely no sense.
What you actually want to do is create a new LegacyEntity (via the new LegacyEntity) and save that instance to DB.
What you have read via #Configurable is the other way around - you inject a spring bean/service into an Entity.

I think We can #Autowire an #Entity class. But then we need to mention in Entity class that it is of Request scope
#Entity
#Scope(scopeName=WebApplicationContext.SCOPE_REQUEST, proxyMode=ScopedProxyMode.TARGET_CLASS)
public class LegacyEntity {
I am not sure if using the new keyword is the better approach instead of autowiring an Entity class?

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Qualifier in Spring JavaConfig

I'm trying to write one JavaConfig file, which will contain all dependencies to have the ability to choose injected class.
For example one function of JavaConfig
#Bean
#Qualifier("bigWheel") // Has no impact (I have several types of wheel)
public Car getCar(Wheel wheel){
return new Car(wheel);
}
Also when I mark Car class with #Component I got "No default constructor" exception. What I'm doing wrong?
You have to realize that when Spring is creating your spring context and instantiating the beans it needs default constructors i.e. constructors without any parameters. Quite simply it wouldn't know what Wheel to supply.
I also think you're likely to be unhappy using the pseudo-reserved get/set methods as an object name. Regardless of your Qualifier annotation you are creating an object getCar of class Car.
It kinda looks like you are trying to make getCar a factory method? I'm not going to write a big description in case that's not what you're doing. But if so your pattern needs some work.
EDIT: From your comment below I really don't think you want a bean instantiated at context creation time. It sounds like you just want a regular Spring Aware bean that can use Cars and Wheels. Something like This.
#Component
#Scope(BeanDefinition.SCOPE_PROTOTYPE)
class Wheel {
... wheel stuff
}
#Component
#Scope(BeanDefinition.SCOPE_PROTOTYPE)
class Car {
... car stuff
}
#Component
class Dealership extends ApplicationContextAware {
#Autowired
ApplicationContext applicationContext;
... bunch of dealership code
Wheel wheel = (Wheel) applicationContext.getBean("Wheel");
Car car = (Car) applicationContext.getBean("Car");
car.setWheel(wheel);
... profit
It just doesn't sound like you are looking for a global singleton called wheel that is injected into the global singleton car, during context initialization.
That is why I added the SCOPE_PROTOTYPE annotations above. Normally Spring will instantiate an object and keep injeting that object when you call for it. This works well most of the time. But if your object starts storing state or if you're multithreaded of course, that doesn't work.
But Spring can't figure that out. So if you want a unique object instantiated for each getBean call, you have to add the #Scope annotation.
Hope this helps

spring annotation manage pojo

I use spring annotation to manage java bean, use #service in service layer, and #autowired when inject service, but now I have a question, how to manage POJO by spring?
for example, I need to return a user for ajax call, so I need to always write like:
User user = new User()......
return user;
So, how I can use like
#autowired User user;
And the User POJO will be:
#component
#scope("prototype")
public class User{}
so each time the user entity will be a new one, and I needn't to new it everytime,
But I failed to write like this, so can spring manage POJO to be a prototype?
Update====================================
Thanks for answering
You have three options that i can think of straigh away. What you want is to be able to create prototypes from within a singleton. So you can either use..
1) AOP Scoped Proxy.
So change your User class annotation to ...
#Scope(value = "prototype", proxyMode = ScopedProxyMode.TARGET_CLASS)
(this required cglib on your classpath)
or
2) lookup-method
this is a bit more involved and makes things a bit harder to test
or
3) make your class implement ApplicationContextAware and then you can just call getBean on the context when you want a new prototype.
A bit of googling will sort you out anyway but I recommend the first option
Try following code:
#Component
#Scope(BeanDefinition.SCOPE_PROTOTYPE)
public class User
{
......
}
Hope it helps.

Is it possible to retrieve a Spring bean with prototype scope without using ApplicationContextAware

Using Spring 3.1. If I want to retrieve a bean with prototype scope (i.e. I want a different instance of the class each time), is it possible to retrieve the bean without having to use an ApplicationContextaware class?
This is how I do it at present
#Component
#Qualifier("MyService")
public class MyServiceImpl implements MyService {
#Override
public void doSomething() {
Blah blah = (Blah)ApplicationContextProvider.getContext().getBean("blah");
blah.setThing("thing");
blah.doSomething();
}
}
#Component("blah")
#Scope("prototype")
public class Blah {
....
}
where ApplicationContextProvider implements ApplicationContextAware.
Is it possible to do this with annotations or simple Spring configuration without having to use an ApplicationContextAware class?
Spring has some fairly sophosticated methods for achieving what you're after...
See the spring documentation: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/html/beans.html#beans-factory-scopes-other-injection
Searching for spring proxy scope on google also threw up some results...
You don't really need a ApplicationContextAware. You just need a BeanFactory (ApplicationContextAware is just a convinient way to get it).
A bean with scope prototype just means that everytime ApplicationContext.getBean is called a new instance of the bean is created. If you try to inject a prototype bean in a singleton, your prototype bean will be injected once (and so is no more a prototype).
There is something called method injection that may help you if you really need it, but it is more complex than simply calling applicationContext.getBean().

Injecting a bean to use in Controllers throughout the application

I'm using spring mvc 3.1.x and jets3t.
I have a DataAccessObject that i instantiate as a Singleton bean..
I managed to get it working through extending the applicationcontextloader class and adding it to the web.xml
EDIT:
I changed my method, I tried inject and autowired but it's not suitable for my needs.
What I've done was to implement ApplicationContextAware and set it up as a bean, in the code I use it as follows:
ApplicationContext ctx = BannerApplicationContext.getApplicationContext();
BannerGenericDAO bdao = (BannerGenericDAO) ctx.getBean("dao");
I'm new to Spring and in general the servlet world..
Questions are:
what's the best way of doing this? Is this considered a "best-practice"?
How do you inject an object, keeping other method fields that are not supplied by autowiring?
How do you get an object to be used throughout the entire application?
Thanks!!
You could use annotations in your controller.
#Controller
public class MyController{
#Autowired // or #Inject, which is more JEEish (JSR330).
private SomeDao daoService;
}
Given "SomeDao" is the type of your singleton DAO, of course.

Is it OK to define RowMapper class as spring bean?

On many tutorial/books about spring JDBC, RowMapper class usually represented as private static final class inside DAO and the instance is created in every single query.
Does RowMapper have to be used and instantiate in this way?
Is it ok if I define RowMapper class as spring bean using #Component annotation and #Autowired it to my dao class?
Which one is better?
Does RowMapper have to be used and instantiate in this way
No, that's just a common usage pattern.
Is it ok if I define RowMapper class as spring bean using #Component annotation and #Autowired it to my dao class?
Sure, that would work. Unless the RowMapper needs access to other Spring services, though, there's not much point.
Which one is better?
Without seeing your code and getting a feel for your application, we can't really tell you if it's a good idea or not, only you can make that choice.
My personal preference would be to keep the RowMapper as a non-static inner class of your DAO class, and to insantiate it directly from the DAO. If the RowMapper needs access to other Spring beans, then wire those intop the DAO, and access them from the RowMapper inner class.

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