Spring @Qualifier comments

Spring @Qualifier comments

There may be a situation where when you create multiple beans of the same type and want to assemble only one of them with one property, in which case you can use @Qualifier comments and @Autowired comments to eliminate confusion by specifying which real beans will be assembled. An example of using @Qualifier comments is shown below.

Example

Let's put the Eclipse IDE to work, follow these steps to create a Spring application:

Here's .java the Student file:

package com.tutorialspoint;
public class Student {
   private Integer age;
   private String name;
   public void setAge(Integer age) {
      this.age = age;
   }   
   public Integer getAge() {
      return age;
   }
   public void setName(String name) {
      this.name = name;
   }  
   public String getName() {
      return name;
   }
}

Here's .java profile file:

package com.tutorialspoint;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
public class Profile {
   @Autowired
   @Qualifier("student1")
   private Student student;
   public Profile(){
      System.out.println("Inside Profile constructor." );
   }
   public void printAge() {
      System.out.println("Age : " + student.getAge() );
   }
   public void printName() {
      System.out.println("Name : " + student.getName() );
   }
}

Here's what .java mainApp 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");
      Profile profile = (Profile) context.getBean("profile");
      profile.printAge();
      profile.printName();
   }
}

Consider the following example of .xml Beans:

<?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:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

   <context:annotation-config/>

   <!-- Definition for profile bean -->
   <bean id="profile" class="com.tutorialspoint.Profile">
   </bean>

   <!-- Definition for student1 bean -->
   <bean id="student1" class="com.tutorialspoint.Student">
      <property name="name"  value="Zara" />
      <property name="age"  value="11"/>
   </bean>

   <!-- Definition for student2 bean -->
   <bean id="student2" class="com.tutorialspoint.Student">
      <property name="name"  value="Nuha" />
      <property name="age"  value="2"/>
   </bean>

</beans>

Once you've made the first two changes in the source file and bean profile, let's run the application. If your application is all right, this will output the following message:

Inside Profile constructor.
Age : 11
Name : Zara