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[maksymg]

Hi All,

In the code above, createInstance method of batchFilePathVarFactory is never called when I get "readBatchIdAction" instance. The "filePath" property is java.lang.String and it's initialized by "batchFilePath" contant :shock:.
But if I change "idref" to "ref" everything starts to work as planned.

Can somebody explain the difference, or may be it just a bug?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http&#58;//www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">

<beans>

   <bean id="batchFilePathVarFactory"
      class="com.VariableFactory">
   </bean>

   <bean id="batchFilePath" factory-bean="batchFilePathVarFactory"
      factory-method="createInstance" singleton="false" />

   <bean id="readBatchIdAction"
      class="com.ReadBatchId"
      singleton="false">
      <property name="filePath">
         <idref local="batchFilePath"/>
      </property>
   </bean>

</beans>

Thanks

[dgynn]

This isn't a bug, it is working as expected. "ref" is used to pass the bean that the ref refers to. "idref" is used to pass the name of the bean (as a String) that is referred to.