Question

Within Spring DI, can you “use” your bean within it’s own definition? For example, if I have a bean called getTest1 with an inner bean declared within it, can I pass getTest1 to the constructor of that inner bean?

I’m wondering if I can implement a decorator patter-like solution using Spring DI for a work project but don’t have much time to play around with it. Thanks!

Answer 1

Haven’t tested it but I think you need something like this

<bean id="a" class="com.AClass">
   <property name="aProperty" value="y">
   <property name="bean2">
      <bean class="com.BClass">
        <constructor-arg ref="a"/>
      </bean>
   </property>
</bean>

check here for more help on referencing one bean inside another