Static "current" context

[amsmota]

One of the things I do now is something like, having

/slayer/request/requestXPTO
/slayer/response/somekey

and after I get the "path" info for those urls, invoke something like on a "resource" object

		if(channel.equals("request")){
			responseBean = doRequest(rb, synchronous);
		}
		
		if(channel.equals("response")){
			responseBean = doResponse(rb, synchronous);
		}

However I don't know how to have access to the channels currently defined on the context. Now I'm "injecting" then on my "resource" object when I instanciate it, like

context.start();
		
resource = (Resource) context.getBean("resource");
		
resource.setAvailableChannels(context.getBeanNamesForType(MessageChannel.class));

However, I should be able to access the "current context" in a static way to avoid this.

Is this possible?

Cheers.

[whyBish]

Do you mean something like

        ChannelRegistry channelRegistry = (ChannelRegistry) AppContext.getContext().getBean(
            MessageBusParser.MESSAGE_BUS_BEAN_NAME);
        MessageChannel statusRequestChannel = channelRegistry.lookupChannel("RequestChannel");

?

[amsmota]

Something like that, yes, but where do you get that AppContext? I don't find anything in Spring core like that, and ApplicationContext doesen't have any static methods.

[whyBish]

Oh sorry, we make one for most of our projects, for example:

public class AppContext {
    private static AbstractApplicationContext context = null;

    public static AbstractApplicationContext getContext() {
        if (context == null) {
            context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
                "/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-integration.xml");
            context.start();
        }
        return context;
    }

}

Note that this one just loads a NEW context from the particular context file, if you want something like the context of the webapp you need to do something different...

[Andreas Senft]

if you want something like the context of the webapp you need to do something different...

E.g. something like this.

Creating a new context each time might prove to be quite expensive.

Regards,
Andreas