In Spring, “Autowiring by AutoDetect“, means chooses “autowire by constructor” if default constructor (argument with any data type), otherwise uses “autowire by type“.
See an example of Spring “auto wiring by autodetect”. Auto wiring the “kungfu” bean into “panda”, via constructor or type (base on the implementation of panda bean).
<bean id="panda" class="com.mkyong.common.Panda" autowire="autodetect" />
<bean id="kungfu" class="com.mkyong.common.KungFu" >
<property name="name" value="Shao lin" />
</bean>
1. AutoDetect – by Constructor
If a default constructor is supplied, auto detect will chooses wire by constructor.
package com.mkyong.common;
public class Panda {
private KungFu kungfu;
public Panda(KungFu kungfu) {
System.out.println("autowiring by constructor");
this.kungfu = kungfu;
}
public KungFu getKungfu() {
return kungfu;
}
public void setKungfu(KungFu kungfu) {
System.out.println("autowiring by type");
this.kungfu = kungfu;
}
//...
}
Output
autowiring by constructor
Person [kungfu=Language [name=Shao lin]]
2. AutoDetect – by Type
If a default constructor is not found, auto detect will chooses wire by type.
package com.mkyong.common;
public class Panda {
private KungFu kungfu;
public KungFu getKungfu() {
return kungfu;
}
public void setKungfu(KungFu kungfu) {
System.out.println("autowiring by type");
this.kungfu = kungfu;
}
//...
}
Output
autowiring by type
Person [kungfu=Language [name=Shao lin]]
Download Source Code
Download it – Spring-AutoWiring-by-Auto-Detect-Example.zip (6 KB)
isn’t default constructor parameter less , any reason why you are calling parametrized constructor default constructor.
“default constructor (argument with any data type)”
Wikipedia defines default constructor as follows:
“In computer programming languages the term default constructor can refer to a constructor that is automatically generated by the compiler in the absence of any programmer-defined constructors”
You definitely dont mean default constructor there, right?
how is that default constructor? That constructor is taking argument.
It is no longer working in Spring 3.0.
Hi Mkyong,
Your tutorials are excellent and loved to read them, but I am confused when you use word ‘default constructor’ for argumented constructor. In my learning, I read zero argument construtor is default constructor.
Could you please clarify the doubt.
Thanks,
Rick