How to set a bean property of type safe-type enum class?

[monn]

Hi.. I'm a newbie Spring user.

I've this class :

public class MyClass {

private ConfigKey theKey;

// setter

}

ConfigKey is a type-safe enum class :

public class ConfigKey {

private ConfigKey(int key){
this.key = key;
}

private int key;

public static final ConfigKey KEY_1 = new ConfigKey(1);
public static final ConfigKey KEY_2 = new ConfigKey(2);

}


How should I fill the ??? below?

<bean class="MyClass " id="myClass">
<property name="minProcessKey">
<value>???</value>>
</property>
<property name="maxProcessKey">
<value>???</value>>
</property>
</bean>

[Andreas Senft]

If you want to assign instances of your enum class to a property you can use org.springframework.beans.factory.config.FieldRetr ievingFactoryBean. Have a look at the API documentation for an example.

Alternatively, maybe this thread could be helpful (though it's about java5 enums):
http://forum.springframework.org/sho...highlight=enum

Hope that helps,
Andreas