Question

I have got a simple project using spring.

In the spring config, I have a map defined as:

<util:map id="myMap">
    <entry key="1" value="a"/>
    <entry key="2" value="b/>
    <entry key="3"  value="c"/>
    <entry key="4" value="d"/>
    <entry key="5" value="e"/>
</util:map>

In my application code, I want to get this map out of spring using ClassPathXmlApplicationContext. But It seems like I cannot use getBean function as (Scala):

val cx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("myservice.xml")
val map: java.util.Map[String, String] = cx.getBean("myMap").asInstanceOf[java.util.Map[String, String]]

How can I get this Map collection defined in Spring config from a client code?

Many thanks

Regards.

Answer 1

Simply inject it somewhere:

<bean id="myBean" class="com.xx.SomeBean">
 <property name="someMap" ref="myMap"/>
</bean