Can I set a default AnnotationBeanNameGenerator in Spring?

Question

I'm using @ComponentScan multiple places in the test suite for my application. I want to replace the default bean name generation in Spring, so I have made my own generator like this:

public class FullyQualifiedAnnotationBeanNameGenerator extends AnnotationBeanNameGenerator {
    protected String buildDefaultBeanName(BeanDefinition definition) {
        return definition.getBeanClassName();
    }
}

To use the generator, I'm doing this:

@ComponentScan(nameGenerator = FullyQualifiedAnnotationBeanNameGenerator.class)

The problem is, for every @ComponentScan in my test configuration classes (classes annotated with @Configuration), I have to repeat nameGenerator = FullyQualifiedAnnotationBeanNameGenerator.class.

Is it possible for me to tell Spring to always use the FullyQualifiedAnnotationBeanNameGenerator as a nameGenerator? I want it to be the default one.

Answer 1

Just create you own Annotation like this:

@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@ComponentScan(nameGenerator = FullyQualifiedAnnotationBeanNameGenerator.class)
public @interface MyComponentScan{

}