Question

I have a standalone enum type defined, something like this:

package my.pkg.types;  public enum MyEnumType {     TYPE1,     TYPE2 } 

Now, I want to inject a value of that type into a bean property:

<bean name='someName' class='my.pkg.classes'>    <property name='type' value='my.pkg.types.MyEnumType.TYPE1' /> </bean> 

…and that didn’t work 🙁

How should I Inject an Enum into a spring bean?

Answer 1

Have you tried just ‘TYPE1’? I suppose Spring uses reflection to determine the type of ‘type’ anyway, so the fully qualified name is redundant. Spring generally doesn’t subscribe to redundancy!