Question

I have a class B which implements W interface. It has a default implementation of W’s method. class C and D override default implementation for which they need a service whose bean is instantiated by spring. String a and b comes from user and hence there is no way I can create a bean of B/C/D in advance. So I have a factory which creates a new object based on user parameters (it will create B/C/D based on parameters). Is there any clean way I can use service beans(aa/bb/cc/dd etc.) from inside C and D (spring autowires during server startup, at that time parameter required for instantiating B/C/D are not available) or is there any better way to solve the problem ?

 Class B implements W{
      String a;
      String b;
      B (String a, String b);

      w_method(){

      }
   }

    Class C extends B {
      @Autowired
      Service aa;

      @Autowired
      Service bb;

      @Autowired
      Service cc;

      @override
      w_method(){
      }
    }

Class D extends B {
  @Autowired
  Service dd;

  @override
  w_method(){
  }
}

Answer 1

I think the simplest method would be to wire the services into the factory and call setters on the B / C / D objects before you return them, rather than attempting to use @Autowired.

Or use axtavt’s constructor argument method. If you want to avoid depending on ApplicationContext, you can use Lookup Method Injection, but you’ll have to patch Spring per this blog post: http://nurkiewicz.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/creating-prototype-spring-beans-on.html