The ‘SetFactoryBean‘ class provides developer a way to create a concrete Set collection (HashSet and TreeSet) in Spring’s bean configuration file.
Here’s a ListFactoryBean example, it will instantiate an HashSet at runtime, and inject it into a bean property
package com.mkyong.common;
import java.util.Set;
public class Customer
{
private Set sets;
//...
}
Spring’s bean configuration file.
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">
<bean id="CustomerBean" class="com.mkyong.common.Customer">
<property name="sets">
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.SetFactoryBean">
<property name="targetSetClass">
<value>java.util.HashSet</value>
</property>
<property name="sourceSet">
<list>
<value>1</value>
<value>2</value>
<value>3</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
Alternatively, you also can use util schema and <util:set> to achieve the same thing.
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd">
<bean id="CustomerBean" class="com.mkyong.common.Customer">
<property name="sets">
<util:set set-class="java.util.HashSet">
<value>1</value>
<value>2</value>
<value>3</value>
</util:set>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
Remember to include the util schema, else you will hit the following error
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException:
The prefix "util" for element "util:set" is not bound.
Run it…
package com.mkyong.common;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
public class App
{
public static void main( String[] args )
{
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("SpringBeans.xml");
Customer cust = (Customer)context.getBean("CustomerBean");
System.out.println(cust);
}
}
Ouput
Customer [sets=[3, 2, 1]] Type=[class java.util.HashSet]
You have instantiated HashSet and and injected it into Customer’s sets property at runtime.
Download Source Code
Download It – Spring-SetFactoryBean-Example.zip (5KB)
Thanks sir
It is Helpful Example.
How to print “Type=[class java.util.HashSet]”
here is one small typing mistake in this line-
Here’s a ListFactoryBean example, it will instantiate an HashSet at runtime, and inject it into a bean property
in place of ListFactoryBean example, SetFactoryBean example is right thing to type.
Hi Mr. Yong,
I was curious why the setFactoryBean prints out 3,2,1 but list and map can followed the the order 1,2,3 which was the order we set for them?
Thank you,
Leon
Hi Leon,
This is property of java collections. Order of printing is undermined for set. List and Map iterator prints data in order they were inserted.