Question

I was recently searching for an answer to a different question about load-time-weaving and autowiring and I remember coming across something like this, but I’m not sure how to configure it. Essentially, I have class instances created outside of my control, so I need load-time weaving in order to wire my dependencies automatically as instances are created. I’d like to configure the dependencies in XML, though, as it’s not able to autowire a certain List field.

Here’s what I’d like to do:

@Configurable
public class RuntimeCreatedBean {

    private List<RuntimeDependency> runtimeDependencies;

    // setters omitted for brevity
}

XML:

<beans>
    <bean class="RuntimeCreatedBean">
        <property name="runtimeDependencies">
            <list>
                <bean class="RuntimeDependencyOne"/>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>
</beans>

Is there a way to do this, where the bean definition is used to wire the RuntimeCreatedBean?

Answer 1

I haven’t tried exactly like that, but I believe it will work exactly as you posted it. Have you tried it?

Edit: Yes, I just tried it in a sample project, and it works as expected.