How to assign bean's property an Enum value in Spring config file?

Question

I have a standalone enum type defined, something like this:

package my.pkg.types;  public enum MyEnumType {     TYPE1,     TYPE2 } 

Now, I want to inject a value of that type into a bean property:

<bean name="someName" class="my.pkg.classes">    <property name="type" value="my.pkg.types.MyEnumType.TYPE1" /> </bean> 

...and that didn't work :(

How should I Inject an Enum into a spring bean?

Answer 1

Have you tried just "TYPE1"? I suppose Spring uses reflection to determine the type of "type" anyway, so the fully qualified name is redundant. Spring generally doesn't subscribe to redundancy!