Spring automatically assembles byType

Spring automatically byType

This pattern specifies automatic assembly by the property type. Spring container is beans and the autowire beans in the XML profile is byType T hen, if its type exactly one of beans names in the profile, it tries to match and connect its properties. If a match is found, it injects these beans otherwise it throws an exception.

For example, in a configuration file, if bean definition is set byType and it spellChecker Spring the SpellChecker SpellChecker and uses it to set that property. bean Y ou can still connect the property using the .lt; property and tags. The following example will illustrate this concept and you will find that there is no difference with the example above, except that XML profile has been changed.

Let's use the Eclipse IDE right place, and then follow these steps to create a Spring application:

Here is TextEditor.java file:

package com.tutorialspoint;
public class TextEditor {
   private SpellChecker spellChecker;
   private String name;
   public void setSpellChecker( SpellChecker spellChecker ) {
      this.spellChecker = spellChecker;
   }
   public SpellChecker getSpellChecker() {
      return spellChecker;
   }
   public void setName(String name) {
      this.name = name;
   }
   public String getName() {
      return name;
   }
   public void spellCheck() {
      spellChecker.checkSpelling();
   }
}

Here's another class-dependent SpellChecker.java content:

package com.tutorialspoint;
public class SpellChecker {
   public SpellChecker(){
      System.out.println("Inside SpellChecker constructor." );
   }
   public void checkSpelling() {
      System.out.println("Inside checkSpelling." );
   }   
}

MainApp.java files are:

package com.tutorialspoint;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
public class MainApp {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      ApplicationContext context = 
             new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("Beans.xml");
      TextEditor te = (TextEditor) context.getBean("textEditor");
      te.spellCheck();
   }
}

Here is the profile Beans file Beans.xml normal:

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

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

   <!-- Definition for textEditor bean -->
   <bean id="textEditor" class="com.tutorialspoint.TextEditor">
      <property name="spellChecker" ref="spellChecker" />
      <property name="name" value="Generic Text Editor" />
   </bean>

   <!-- Definition for spellChecker bean -->
   <bean id="spellChecker" class="com.tutorialspoint.SpellChecker">
   </bean>

</beans>

However, if you want to use “byType” then your XML will become as follows:

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

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

   <!-- Definition for textEditor bean -->
   <bean id="textEditor" class="com.tutorialspoint.TextEditor" 
      autowire="byType">
      <property name="name" value="Generic Text Editor" />
   </bean>

   <!-- Definition for spellChecker bean -->
   <bean id="SpellChecker" class="com.tutorialspoint.SpellChecker">
   </bean>

</beans>

Once you're done creating the source bean profile, we can run the application. If your application is all right, it will print the following message:

Inside SpellChecker constructor.
Inside checkSpelling.