spring - autowire="constructor"

[Gayatri Ganesh]

Hi,

I have a bean definition as follows in my spring-context.xml file:

<bean id="myService"
class="com.try.services.MyServiceImpl"
singleton="true" lazy-init="true" autowire="constructor"
dependency-check="default" >
</bean>

and

public class MyServiceImpl extends BaseService implements MyService {

private AnotherService as;

public MyServiceImpl (SessionFactory sf, AnotherService as){
super(sf);
this.as = as;
}
}

'myService' bean is autowired by constructor.
what i understand by autowire='constructor' is :
create this bean instance using the constructor and arguments to the constructor are defined as other beans the spring-context.xml.
so i would have to write
<constructor-arg>..........</constructor-arg>
in the bean definition

but how does the above code work without the <onstructor-arg>

thanks,
Gayatri

[Christophe Verré]

That's the whole point of autowiring ! You don't need to tell the container which beans to use. It will look for a bean whose type is SessionFactory, and another bean whose type is AnotherService, and wire them to MyServiceImpl.

Note that if Spring finds more than one bean of type SessionFactory or AnotherService, it will throw an exception. In this case, you will have to set the constructor args explicitly with the constructor-arg tag.

[Gayatri Ganesh]

Thanks Satou !