Initialize collection object (not for property injection)

[litterat]

Hi All
I am using Spring for some time now and I guess I am missing something
I am trying to create collection with default values. I know collection are not "true" beans as they do not have the set and get methods. I also know that I can create a collection with their constractor but that seems not clean for me as spring will have to create the collection pass it to the constractor and then the collection object will have to run over the items and recreat the collection.

In short is there a way to create a collection (or map for this matter) with default values?

Thanks in advance
Nehemia

[karldmoore]

I'm not sure what you are trying to do. You want to create Collection and pass it into the beans constructor but you don't want to inject it in? Where is this Collection supposed to come from if you don't inject it?

[litterat]

Hi karldmoore
I want to create a collection as bean
lets say ArrayList and add values to it
The same goes with hashMap and so on
Thanks for the reply
Nehemia

[karldmoore]

Have you looked at this?
http://www.springframework.org/docs/...emas-util-list

[litterat]

This is what I was looking for
thanks you very much

[karldmoore]

Not a problem, glad the information was useful. The reference manual is full of lots of useful information, it's always worth having a thumb through it.