SPRING CONSTRUCTOR INJECTION EXAMPLE WITH XML CONFIG

SPRING CONSTRUCTOR INJECTION EXAMPLE WITH XML CONFIG

Constructor Injection With Dependent Object

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Constructor Injection With List

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Constructor Injection Using List With Dependent Object

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Setter Injection With XML Config

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HELLO READERS, In this spring tutorial we are going to learn about spring constructor injection. In this example we are going to learn how to set value to a bean property through constructor injection.

Consider the below example Players  bean class which contains fullName, role and board attributes with default and parameterized constructor and toString() method(for textual representation of object).

Players.java

package com.TheTechMatin.Entity;

public class Players {

     private String fullName;

     private String role;

     private String board;

     public Players() {

     }

     public Players(String fullName, String role, String board) {

           this.fullName = fullName;

           this.role = role;

           this.board = board;

     }

     @Override

     public String toString() {

           return "Players [fullName=" + fullName + ", role=" + role + ", board=" + board + "]";

     }

}

The Players class has three attributes i.e., name, role and board and a default constructor and a parameterized constructor (basic convention) . The toString() method is used to represent textual form of the Players object.

The applicationContext.xml fie is used to do the spring bean configuration. The below xml file shows how to set/assign a value to bean property through spring constructor injection.

 applicationContext.java

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans 

    xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 

    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" 

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans  

http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

     <bean id="player" class="com.TheTechMatin.Entity.Players">

           <constructor-arg value="Sir Ravindra Jadeja" type="String"></constructor-arg>

           <constructor-arg value="All Rounder"></constructor-arg>

           <constructor-arg value="BCCI"></constructor-arg>

     </bean>

</beans>

The id attribute of the bean element is used to specify the bean name and class attribute is used to specify the fully qualified class name of the bean.

The <constructor-arg> element which is the sub-element of <bean> will invokes the constructor with matching number of argument and will inject the value of value attribute to a particular attributes. 

The type attribute is optional for String type of attribute as by default it will be injected to string type of attributes of bean class, but in case of other data type u have to specify the type of attribute for example for id of int type the syntax would be <constructor-arg value="10" type="int"></constructor-arg> then the matching argument constructor will be invoked.

Here in this example we set “Sir Ravindra Jadeja” for fullName attribute of Players class similarly “All Rounder” for role attribute and “BCCI” for board attribute thru constructor injection.

Now executing the TestApp.java to test the application.

TestApp.java

package com.TheTechMatin.Entity;

import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class TestApp {

     public static void main(String[] args) {

//load configuration file

           ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");

//just printing msg

           System.out.println("Hello Welcome To Sping Constructor Injection!");

//get the bean from applicationContext.xml

           Players player = context.getBean(Players.class);

//print the Players attributes value

           System.out.println(player);

//close the context

           context.close();

     }

}

So when we execute the main class the following output will be displayed on the console.

Hello Welcome To Sping Constructor Injection!

Players [fullName=Sir Ravindra Jadeja, role=All Rounder, board=BCCI]

Tested On Eclipse IDE 2019-06.