CustomPropertyEditor is not working - spring

Question

I am new to Spring. I am trying implementing CustomPropertyEditor using PropertyEditorSupport and registering the CustomPropertyEditor in app-context.xml.
Please find the code below.
public class NamePropertyEditor extends PropertyEditorSupport{
#Override
public void setAsText(String text) throws IllegalArgumentException {
//String[] name = text.split(":");
System.out.println("text: "+ text);
Name result = new Name(text, "randomString");
setValue(result);
}
}
app-context file
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomEditorConfigurer">
<property name="customEditors">
<map>
<entry key="com.property.bean.Name">
<bean class="com.property.editor.NamePropertyEditor"/>
</entry>
</map>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="exampleBean" class="com.start.CustomEditorExample">
<property name="name">
<value>Varun Bhatia</value></property>
</bean>
Class trying to use PropertyEditor
public static void main(String[] args) {
GenericXmlApplicationContext ctx = new GenericXmlApplicationContext();
ctx.load("classpath:/META-INF/spring/app-context.xml");
//ctx.refresh();
CustomEditorExample bean = (CustomEditorExample) ctx.getBean("exampleBean");
System.out.println(bean.getName());
}
public Name getName() {
System.out.println("getName");
return name;
}
public void setName(Name name) {
System.out.println("setName");
this.name = name;
}
Problem is control is not going to setAsText method.

Answer 1

Code that you have written in main() will not invoke your property editor
Try something like
CustomEditorExample bean = (CustomEditorExample) ctx.getBean("exampleBean");
BeanWrapper wrapper = new BeanWrapperImpl(bean );
wrapper.setPropertyValue("name", "Some Text");//this will invoke your property editor
System.out.println(bean.getName());
I would advise you to read this Spring Docs