How to use abstract classes in Spring Boot?

Question

@Component
public abstract class AbstractProcessTask implements Task {

  @Resource
  protected WorkOrderEventService workOrderEventService;
  @Resource
  protected NodeService nodeService;
  @Resource
  protected ConfigReader configReader;

  protected void updateStatus(WorkOrderEvent workOrderEvent, String status, String description) {
    workOrderEvent.setStatus(status);
    workOrderEvent.setComments(description);
    workOrderEventService.saveWorkOrderEvent(workOrderEvent);
  }
}

I write a abstract class for use,But I don't know how to use. At Old spring version,We can write abstract="true" in xml. for example:

<bean id="BaseEventAction" class="com.sinosig.evaluation.fcff.web.event.BasicEventAction"
        abstract="true" parent="BaseAction">
        <property name="rowFactory" ref="FcffCacheAdapter" />
        <property name="caculate" ref="CaculateService" />
        <property name="diffusion" ref="DeffusionService" />
</bean>

What should I do?

Answer 1

Using @Component over an abstract class would not help Spring to create a bean from that (As of course, you know, you can not instantiate an object from an abstract class). Use @Component annotation over the concrete classes.

@Component
public class MyProcessTask extends AbstractProcessTask {
...
}

And the rest are okay. If spring finds the concrete classes in the scan path, the associated beans will be created automatically.

Don't confuse with attribute 'abstract=true'

When you mention the attribute abstract=true in a bean declaration, you are just abstracting the bean. Abstract beans in Spring are somewhat different from abstract classes. In fact, the abstract bean in Spring doesn't even have to be mapped to any class.

See this nice answer for more about What is meant by abstract=“true” in spring?