Bean config for java.util.ArrayList

[teknosalsero]

Is there a way to populate a bean that is of class ArrayList?
I simply want an ArrayList populated with some objects,
let's call them "x", "y", "z".

I tried the following, but with no success...

<bean id="entriesList" class="java.util.ArrayList">
     <ref bean="x"/>
     <ref bean="y"/>
     <ref bean="z"/>
</bean>

<bean id="x" class="... ..."/> etc.

Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance,

MDS

[Alef Arendsen]

Can anyone help me with this?

Yes of course ;-)

http://www.springframework.org/docs/...ctoryBean.html

<bean id="list" class="org.springframework.beans.factory/config/ListFactoryBean">
  <property name="sourceList">
    <list>
      <ref bean="x"/>
      <ref bean="y"/>
    </list>
  </property>
  <!-- this property is optional, defaults to ArrayList -->
  <property name="targetList"><value>java.util.LinkedList</value></property>
</bean>

<edit>There are factory beans for Sets and HashMaps as well by the way as well as one for Properties.</edit>

[gpoirier]

See:
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=10144

[teknosalsero]

Hi Alef,

Thanks for the quick reply. It looks good and
I will use it in my code.

Best regards,

MDS

[laran]

This doesn't seem to be working properly for me. I'm using 3.0.

	<bean id="jaxb2MarshallerContextPaths" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ListFactoryBean">
		<property name="sourceList">
			<list value-type="java.lang.String">
				<value>com.foo.manager.schema</value>
				<value>com.foo.jaxb.filtertemplate</value>
			</list>
		</property>
	</bean>

@Component("jaxb2Marshaller")
public class FMJaxb2Marshaller extends Jaxb2Marshaller {
	@Override
	@Resource(name="jaxb2MarshallerContextPaths")
	public void setContextPaths(String... contextPaths) {
		super.setContextPaths(contextPaths);
	}
}

But IntelliJ tells me that this is invalid because the argument type is String. Have I done something wrong? Or is IntelliJ wrong?