How to set a property without a setter

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Hi all,
I've just started to develop an application with Spring and I would like to set up an embedded Jettyserver as a Spring-bean.

Instantiating the server will go this way:
org.mortbay.jetty.Server server = new Server();
server.addListener(":1234"); // defines the port

The problem now is, that the required method isn't called setListener("myport"), but addListener("myPort") so that creating the bean allways fails :o(

I've got this problem also with other objects and so it would be nice if somebody has an idea how to solve this problem in a proper way.

TIA
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[items]

... solve this problem in a proper way.
without wrapping the Serverobject ;o)

[Rick Evans]

Hi

The Spring way is to create a small FactoryBean implementation that will do the instantiation for you.

public class JettyServerFactoryBean extends AbstractFactoryBean {

    private String listenerPort;

    // setter for the listenerPort instance variable

    protected Object createInstance() {

org.mortbay.jetty.Server server = new org.mortbay.jetty.Server();
server.addListener(this.listenerPort); // defines the port
return server;

    }

}

I appreciate that this is not a whole lot to go on (just on my way out the office), so ping the forum back if this is not what you want/need/etc.

Cheers
Rick

[jbetancourt]

thats correct, creating a server object is the easiest way.
In an app context I had:

    <bean id="httpServer" class="some.package.server.JettyServer" init-method="init"
        destroy-method="stop">

And, the server class would wire it up:

    public void init() throws IOException, IllegalAccessException, Exception {
        log.info("init of JettyServer");
        log.info("Adding socket listener: " + socketListener);
        httpServer.addListener(socketListener);
        log.info("Adding HTTP context: " + httpContext);
and so forth...
}

But, it would be nice if there were already a Jetty server bean. And, an easier way of setting non-javabean properties.

[jbetancourt]

I did not get to see Rick's response before I posted. Thats the best way to go ...

Still, a method of setting non-javabean properties would be interesting.

[sabarish]

When i checked out Jetty's javadoc, the Server takes a port number as a constructor arg. You can then use Spring' constructor injection to pass in the port number.

Also addXXX is usually (but not always) accompanied by setXXX(XXX[]) methods which can be used for setter injection through Spring.

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Hi,
thanks for your answers.
It helps a lot for my work and also to understand Spring a little bit better.

hen i checked out Jetty's javadoc, the Server takes a port number as a constructor arg. You can then use Spring' constructor injection to pass in the port number.

Yes. But like jbetancourt said. It would be great to have an attribute for describing the method's name if it doesn't start with set.

bye
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[jbetancourt]

Yea, something like a factory-method:

<property method="addListener" value=xxxx"/>

or

<property method="addListener" ref=beanx"/>

However, its not very JavaBean spec-ish.

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Hi again,
everything works great and it becomes more and more interesting to work with Spring, but some questions are still open:
How is it possible to test my factory without loading the whole application? My "createInstance()" method is protected because my class is derived from AbstractFactoryBean. And how creates Spring the Serverbean without calling a public factory method when getObject() returns null?

Thanks again
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