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Does Spring support injecting beans with generics ?
 
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Beans with generics ? Where ?
I don't think Spring has problems with generics. For example, you can set values in generic collections.
 
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Suppose there is a class



How do I define a bean in the bean definition XML ?
 
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You don't define generics at runtime. If you want to use a specific type of the generic class, you have to make a subclass.
 
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My question was like , how do I define an bean instance of Cache say new Cache<String,Integer>. I guess Spring does not support it without subclassing, is that what you mean ?


 
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It's not that it "does not support" it. Generics types are used at compile-time. I can't see the use of defining generic subclasses at runtime.
Try this :

The cache

The context file

The main class


Why does it work ? Because of type erasure. Generic types A and B both become Object types. There's no point in defining generics at runtime. So, yes, you can instanciate generic classes. But no, you cannot define generic types.
 
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Thanks for the explaination.



This will give runtime error as you have given string value to field value.

 
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This will give runtime error as you have given string value to field value.


Guess what. It doesn't At runtime, because of type erasure, Cache<Integer, Integer> cacheTwo becomes Cache cacheTwo.
 
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Christophe Verré wrote:

This will give runtime error as you have given string value to field value.


Guess what. It doesn't At runtime, because of type erasure, Cache<Integer, Integer> cacheTwo becomes Cache cacheTwo.



oh ! So cacheTwo.value will have type of String not Integer ?
 
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Yes.
 
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Thanks Sheriff. In .net we can specify the generic type in XML itself.


Picked from here
http://www.springframework.net/docs/1.3.0/reference/html/objects.html
 
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That is because .NET has a fundamentally different (IMO better) generics infrastructure, where information about the generic type signature is retained and can be used at runtime. Although this *can* be done in Java, it's hard. For example, the ApplicationListener interface in Spring 3 works with event publishers to use runtime type reflection about the generic signature of a class implementing ApplicationListener to determine which events it's interested in.

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And what about Java-based configuration?


Isn't it brilliant? Day after day I'm getting bigger Java-based configuration advocate.
 
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