Autowiring XML defined <util:map does not work

[francisco.ripoli]

Hi all!

I am defining a Map of Strings on a xml context file and trying to autowire this map into my test class. Something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd
       ">

    <util:map id="myMap" key-type="java.lang.String" value-type="java.lang.String">
        <entry key="key One" value="value One"/>
        <entry key="key Two" value="value Two"/>
    </util:map>

</beans>

Then, I wrote a test case to autowire this map on my test class like this:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations ="classpath:/test-autowire.xml")
public class AutowireTest {

    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("myMap")
    Map<String, String> myMap;

    @Test
    public void test() {

        Assert.assertNotNull(myMap);

    }

}

When running the test class, I get the error

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'AutowireTest': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: java.util.Map AutowireTest.myMap; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No matching bean of type [java.lang.String] found for dependency [map with value type java.lang.String]: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true), @org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier(value=myMap)}
...
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No matching bean of type [java.lang.String] found for dependency [map with value type java.lang.String]: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true), @org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier(value=myMap)}

After some debugging, I found that at DefaultListableBeanFactory, when it calls findAutowireCandidates(..), is trying to find elements of type java.lang.String instead of a java.util.Map ... shouldn't that be the case?

Forgot to say that I'm using spring 3.0.5.RELEASE

Thanks,

Francisco

[francisco.ripoli]

found the answer here

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...itionexception