Spring Bean definition inheritance- A bean definition potentially contains a large amount of configuration information, including container specific information and constructor arguments and property values. A child bean definition inherits configuration data from a parent definition. The child definition can override some values, or add others, as needed. Using parent and child bean definitions can save a lot of typing. Effectively, this is a form of templating.
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If you work with an ApplicationContext interface programmatically, child bean definitions are represented by the ChildBeanDefinition class. Most users do not work with them on this level, instead configuring bean definitions declaratively in something like the ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.
When you use XML-based configuration metadata, you indicate a child bean definition by using the parent attribute, specifying the parent bean as the value of this attribute.
Spring Bean definition inheritance has nothing to do with Java class inheritance but inheritance concept is same. You can define a parent bean definition as a template and other child beans can inherit required configuration from the parent bean.
Now the following example illustrate the bean definition inheritance with triangle classes and its parents classes.
Triangle.java
package com.dineshonjava.sdnext.beanDefInherit.tutorial; public class Triangle { private Point pointA; private Point pointB; private Point pointC; /** * @param pointA the pointA to set */ public void setPointA(Point pointA) { this.pointA = pointA; } /** * @param pointB the pointB to set */ public void setPointB(Point pointB) { this.pointB = pointB; } /** * @param pointC the pointC to set */ public void setPointC(Point pointC) { this.pointC = pointC; } public void draw() { System.out.println("PointA is ("+pointA.getX()+", "+pointA.getY()+")"); System.out.println("PointB is ("+pointB.getX()+", "+pointB.getY()+")"); System.out.println("PointC is ("+pointC.getX()+", "+pointC.getY()+")"); } }
Point.java
package com.dineshonjava.sdnext.beanDefInherit.tutorial; public class Point { private int x; private int y; /** * @return the x */ public int getX() { return x; } /** * @param x the x to set */ public void setX(int x) { this.x = x; } /** * @return the y */ public int getY() { return y; } /** * @param y the y to set */ public void setY(int y) { this.y = y; } }
Spring.xml
<beans xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xsi:schemalocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"> <bean class="com.dineshonjava.sdnext.beanDefInherit.tutorial.Triangle" id="parentTriangle"> <property name="pointA" ref="pointA"></property> </bean> <bean class="com.dineshonjava.sdnext.beanDefInherit.tutorial.Triangle" id="triangle1" parent="parentTriangle"> <property name="pointB" ref="pointB"></property> <property name="pointC" ref="pointC"></property> </bean> <bean class="com.dineshonjava.sdnext.beanDefInherit.tutorial.Triangle" id="triangle2" parent="parentTriangle"> <property name="pointB" ref="pointB"></property> </bean> <bean class="com.dineshonjava.sdnext.beanDefInherit.tutorial.Point" id="pointA"> <property name="x" value="0"></property> <property name="y" value="0"></property> </bean> <bean class="com.dineshonjava.sdnext.beanDefInherit.tutorial.Point" id="pointB"> <property name="x" value="-20"></property> <property name="y" value="0"></property> </bean> <bean class="com.dineshonjava.sdnext.beanDefInherit.tutorial.Point" id="pointC"> <property name="x" value="20"></property> <property name="y" value="0"></property> </bean> </beans>
Point.java
package com.dineshonjava.sdnext.beanDefInherit.tutorial; import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext; import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext; /** * @author Dinesh Rajput * */ public class DrawingApp { /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring.xml"); Triangle triangle = (Triangle) context.getBean("triangle1"); triangle.draw(); } }
PointA is (0, 0)
PointB is (-20, 0)
PointC is (20, 0)
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But how can this be achieved if I perform same using annoation based configuration,Like if I am overriding an @bean annotated method of an base class.
Example:
class BaseClass {
@Bean
OperationClass injectBean() {
//injects its own type of OperationClass
}
}
class MyClass extends BaseClass {
@Bean(name=”customOperation”)
OperationClass injectBean() {
//inject my own bean
}
}
But, this code ends up registering 2 beans in spring context. What should I do to prevent @bean of parent class from getting fired?