Inconvenient of #Value Annotation in Spring 3.0 - spring

I'm wondering if I add a #Value annotation on a property, the class who contains this property cannot be used by another one with a different value, Example :
MyClassUtil.java had
#Value("${some.value}")
private int _myProperty;
And of course there is one module.properties who contain :
some.value=10
Another class ClassA.java wants to use this class with value 10. Ok, no problem.
But another class ClassB.java wants to use this class but with another value : 20. I cannot do this if I'm not mistaken.
Because before #Value era, I could declare two beans in the moduleContext.xml without any problem.
So, is #Value pushes you to do some strong coupling ?

You are right that the annotation configuration can not be instance specific. It is important to understand the concept of bean definitions in bean factory.
Manual bean definition:
Single <bean> element in your XML config leads to a single bean definition. Multiple <bean> mean multiple definitions (regardless of a bean type).
Single #Bean method within #Configuration class leads to a single bean definition. Multiple #Bean methods mean multiple definitions (regardless of a bean type).
However when using component scan, classes annotated with #Component-like annotations are auto-registered as a single bean definition. There is no way you can register bean multiple times via component scan.
Similarly, annotation configurations (#Value, #Autowired, etc.) are type-wide. Your bean instances are always augmented and processed with the same effect (e.g. injecting the same value). There is no way you can alter annotation processing behaviour from instance to instance.
Is this tight coupling? It is not in its general understanding - bean factory (Spring) is still free to inject whatever it thinks is suitable. However it is more of a service lookup pattern. This simplifies your life when working with domain specific singletons. And most beans in an application context tend to be singletons, many of them domain specific (controllers, services, DAOs). Framework singletons (non-project specific reusable classes) should never use annotation based configuration - in this scope, it is an unwanted tight coupling.
If you need different bean instances, you should not use annotation configuration and define your beans manually.

Related

What Default order of beans creating in Spring Boot?

What Default order of beans creating in Spring Boot if we don't use #DependsOn and #Order?
I searched for documentation and found only "How to control the order of creating"
From this Spring doc (scroll down a bit):
...Your target beans can implement the
org.springframework.core.Ordered interface or use the #Order or
standard #Priority annotation if you want items in the array or list
to be sorted in a specific order. Otherwise, their order follows the
registration order of the corresponding target bean definitions in the
container.
You can declare the #Order annotation at the target class level and on
#Bean methods, potentially for individual bean definitions (in case of
multiple definitions that use the same bean class). #Order values may
influence priorities at injection points, but be aware that they do
not influence singleton startup order, which is an orthogonal concern
determined by dependency relationships and #DependsOn declarations.

Spring - register Beans before everything else

I need to register a series of BeanDefinition(s) before every other Bean gets created. That's because those registered Bean(s) are needed for autowiring and ApplicationContext#getBean calls.
I cannot use #DependsOn, obviously.
Example:
final var beanDefinition = new GenericBeanDefinition();
beanDefinition.setBeanClass(...);
beanDefinition.setLazyInit(true);
beanDefinition.setAbstract(false);
beanDefinition.setAutowireCandidate(true);
beanDefinition.setAutowireMode(AbstractBeanDefinition.AUTOWIRE_BY_TYPE);
beanDefinition.setScope(BeanDefinition.SCOPE_PROTOTYPE);
registry.registerBeanDefinition("...", beanDefinition);
Which point/interface/lister can I use to obtain this? Keep in mind I need an instance of BeanDefinitionRegistry.
Adding explanation as required.
Those definitions are created from a list of Classes gathered by scanning the classpath. Those classes are not Spring Bean(s) natively, so I need to integrate them into my ApplicationContext. Those classes, however, accepts constructor arguments which are Spring Beans.
That's why I'm setting
beanDefinition.setAutowireCandidate(true);
beanDefinition.setAutowireMode(AbstractBeanDefinition.AUTOWIRE_BY_TYPE);
Those new registered Beans are there used by other Bean(s) (native Beans).
You are trying to make the solution too complex. If your only goal is to have non #Component annotated classes be detected by component scanning and have them used as Spring Beans simply define a custom includeFilter for the #COmponentScan.
You can use a filter of type ASPECTJ or REGEX to match a package or type.
#ComponentScan(includeFilter = #Filter(type=REGEX, expression="com.foo.bar.*))
Something like that will automatically detect your beans (assuming they are in a packaged being scanned) and create spring beans out of them. If they have a single constructor that will automatically be used to create an instance.
Register a new BeanFactoryPostProcessor or BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor bean in your context. This bean will get invoked after bean definitions are scanned but before actual beans are constructed:
Extension to the standard BeanFactoryPostProcessor SPI, allowing for the registration of further bean definitions before regular BeanFactoryPostProcessor detection kicks in. In particular, BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor may register further bean definitions which in turn define BeanFactoryPostProcessor instances.

Spring Beans Configurations

if we have
1- a case scenario where we have class A configured as singleton and a child class B as a member within Class A configured as prototype.
2- Another case scenario, which is the opposite to the first one, where we have Class A defined as prototype and Class B defined as singleton.
How Spring container is gonna initialize and deal with these two situations when request is made to these classes A and B?
Please take a look at this answer - Spring session-scoped beans as dependencies in prototype beans?
You can always inject a bean of wider scope (e.g. a singleton) into a
bean of narrower scope (e.g. a session-scoped bean), but to it the
other way around, you need a scoped-proxy.
This applies to your questions.
You are injecting narrower scope bean in wider scoped bean. (Prototype is narrower than singleton). It should work for you.
You are trying to inject wider scope bean into narrower scoped bean. You need to use a scoped-proxy.

Spring configurable bean injection

Is there any way to inject bean dependencies make configurable except from factory pattern?
I have 3 class implement same interface and have 3 bean definition. I want to change that beans using in other class? For excample is it possile to read bean name form conf file and use it as varible?
Yes, you can go with #Qualifier annotation. As you have 3 classes which implement same interface, name those classes with different names and use #Qualifier annotation.
Spring documentation says : autowiring by type may lead to multiple candidates, it is often necessary to have more control over the selection process. One way to accomplish this is with Spring's #Qualifier annotation.

Overriding the bean defined in parent context in a child context

Our app has a requirement to support multi-tenancy. Each of the boarded customer might potentially override 1 or more beans or some properties of a bean defined at the core platform level (common code/definitions). I am wondering what is the best way to handle this.
Spring allows you to redefine the same bean name multiple times, and takes the last bean definition processed for a given name to be the one that wins. So for example, your could have an XML file defining your core beans, and import that in a client-specific XML file, which also redefines some of those beans. It's a bit fragile, though, since there's no mechanism to specifically say "this bean definition is an override".
I've found that the cleanest way to handle this is using the new #Bean-syntax introduced in Spring 3. Rather than defining beans as XML, you define them in Java. So your core beans would be defined in one #Bean-annotated class, and your client configs would subclass that, and override the appropriate beans. This allows you to use standard java #Override annotations, explicitly indicating that a given bean definition is being overridden.

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