How to access applicationContext from a Controller

Question

I'm using a Spring MVC Project from Netbeans and I've moved the applicationContext.xml file to /src/conf because I've read WEB-INF isn't the correct folder. I can't access to the application context from a controller in /src/java/web/controller. I've tried several ways and it doesn't deploy the project.

I would like a link to learn more about paths in a web project, pleas.

I think this could help us to figure out:

public class TasksController implements Controller {
private TaskManager taskManager;
protected final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());

public TaskController() {
    ApplicationContext context = new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext("/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml");    
    taskManager = (TaskManager)context.getBean("taskManager");
}

@Override
public ModelAndView handleRequest(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) 
    throws ServletException, IOException {

    logger.info("Returning view from TaskController");

    Map<String,Object> tasks = new HashMap<String,Object>();

// Get tasks from model

    return new ModelAndView("tasks","tasks",tasks);
}

Bye!

Answer 1

Ouch. OK, you don't instantiate new contexts from within your controller. The context has already been configured by Spring, you just have to ask Spring for it.

Make your controller implement BeanFactoryAware, and Spring will then inject the context for you by automatically calling setBeanFactory:

public class TasksController implements Controller, BeanFactoryAware {
  private TaskManager taskManager;

  public void setBeanFactory(BeanFactory context) {
     taskManager = (TaskManager)context.getBean("taskManager");
  }

  // handleRequest as before
}