spring - pass parameter to injected object

Question

I'm trying to inject a bean into a Controller but looks like Spring is not using the bean.xml file.

Here is the code:

The controller

@RestController
public class AppController {

  private final EventService eventService;
  private List<String> categories;

  public AppController(final EventService eventService) {
    this.eventService = eventService;
  }
}

The interface of the object to inject

public interface EventService {
   // some methods
}

Its implementation

public class MyEventService {

  private final String baseURL;

  public MyEventService(String baseURL){
    this.baseURL = baseURL;
  }
}

If I annotate MyEventService with @Service Spring tries to inject it into the Controller but complains about baseURL not being provided (No qualifying bean of type 'java.lang.String' available). So I created a bean.xml file under src/main/resources

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>

  <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

    <bean id="eventService" class="xyz.MyEventService">
        <constructor-arg type="java.lang.String" value="fslkjgjbflgkj" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="categories" class="java.util.ArrayList">
        <constructor-arg>
            <list>
                <value>music</value>
                <value>comedy</value>
                <value>food</value>
            </list>
        </constructor-arg>
    </bean>
  </beans>

but that doesn't seem to work as if I remove @Service from MyEventService Spring complains about not finding a bean for eventService.

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Spring Boot heavily relies on Java Config.

Check the docs on how to declare @Component, @Service etc

In your case:

@Service
public class MyEventService implements EventService {

  private final String baseURL;

  @Autowired
  public MyEventService(Environment env){
    this.baseURL = env.getProperty("baseURL");
  }
}

And in you /src/main/resources/application.properties

baseURL=https://baseUrl

And then

@RestController
public class AppController {

  private final EventService eventService;

  @Autowired
  public AppController(final EventService eventService) {
    this.eventService = eventService;
  }
}

The @Autowired will tell Spring Boot to look in the components you declared with @Component, @Service, @Repository, @Controller etc

To inject the categories, I really suggest you declared a CategoriesService (with @Service) that gets the categories from a config file or just hardcode them in the CategoriesService class (for prototyping).

Answer 2

There are 2 issues with what you are trying

1. The reason your xml bean definition is not picked up is because you didn't injected the service in you controller,since you are using annotation for your controller you need to tell you controller how the service needs to be injected, to fix this just autowire your service

   @RestController
   public class AppController {
   
   @Autowired
   private final EventService eventService;
   
   
   }
   

2. When your are using annotation for construct-arg based spring bean you need to set value as well, like you are doing in your xml.

   public class MyEventService {
   
   private final String baseURL;
   
   public MyEventService(@Value("#{your value here")String baseURL){
        this.baseURL = baseURL;
    }
   }