retrieve Bean programmatically

Question

@Configuration
public class MyConfig {
    @Bean(name = "myObj")
    public MyObj getMyObj() {
        return new MyObj();
    }
}

I have this MyConfig object with @Configuration Spring annotation. My question is that how I can retrieve the bean programmatically (in a regular class)?

for example, the code snippet looks like this. Thanks in advance.

public class Foo {
    public Foo(){
    // get MyObj bean here
    }
}

public class Var {
    public void varMethod(){
            Foo foo = new Foo();
    }
}

Answer 1

Try this:

public class Foo {
    public Foo(ApplicationContext context){
        context.getBean("myObj")
    }
}

public class Var {
    @Autowired
    ApplicationContext context;
    public void varMethod(){
            Foo foo = new Foo(context);
    }
}

Answer 2

Here an Example

public class MyFancyBean implements ApplicationContextAware {

  private ApplicationContext applicationContext;

  void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) {
    this.applicationContext = applicationContext;
  }

  public void businessMethod() {
    //use applicationContext somehow
  }

}

However you rarely need to access ApplicationContext directly. Typically you start it once and let beans populate themselves automatically.

Here you go:

ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");

Note that you don't have to mention files already included in applicationContext.xml. Now you can simply fetch one bean by name or type:

ctx.getBean("someName")

Note that there are tons of ways to start Spring - using ContextLoaderListener, @Configuration class, etc.