How can I wire a Class Type property

[sheep00]

It is a simple problem that when there is a type Class property(not an instance) in my class, but I don't know how to write in ApplicationContext.xml for this class to use Setter Injection.

public Class Example{

private Class member;

public void setMember(Class member) {
.....
}
.....
}

Thanks!
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[Sanika]

This might work..

<bean id="exampleclass" class="...Example" >
<property name="member"> <ref bean="bean_id_for_member_class"/></property>
</bean>

You would you need to create an instance of some class in the context with id = "bean_id_for_member_class"

Just curious .. why do you need to do create a member of type "Class" ? why not just the Object of the specific Class ?

[sheep00]

Sorry, but what you say doesn't work, the key of the problem is that I can't create a Class instanse by Spring's XML.

[manifoldronin]

Try something along the line of:

<bean id="theClassToLoad" class="java.lang.Class" factory-method="forName">
<constructor-arg value="the.class.to.load"/>
</bean>

[Jeff Moszuti]

Here's a simpler example:

<beans>  
  <bean id="example" class="Example">
    <property name="member"><value>com.foo.Bar</value></property>
  </bean>
</beans>

An ApplicationContexts automatically registers a ClassEditor that populates a Class property from a string; "com.foo.Bar" in this case.