Spring autowire a list

Question

Is it possible to use @Autowired with a list?

Like I have properties file with mimetypes and in my class file I have something like this

@Autowired private List<String> mimeTypes = new ArrayList<String>(); 

Answer 1

Spring 4 and older support the ability to automatically collect all beans of a given type and inject them into a collection or array.

Here is an example:

@Component public class Car implements Vehicle { }  @Component public class Bus implements Vehicle { }  @Component public class User {    @Autowired    List<Vehicle> vehicles; // contains both car and bus } 

Ref: Spring 4 Ordering Autowired Collections

Answer 2

@Qualifier("..") is discouraged, instead try to autowire-by-name using

private @Resource(name="..") List<Strings> mimeTypes; 

See also How to autowire factorybean.