Feedback regarding custom PropertyEditorRegistrar

[jontro]

Hi all.

I am really new to spring so I would like some feedback regarding my implementation of custom PropertyEditorRegistrars.

I realize that DI is the way to go and I really had to think a long while to set the following up.
The problem was that I couldnt use org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomEdi torConfigurer since they are not available to form controllers AFAIK.

After searching around I didnt find a implementation that implements PropertyEditorRegistrar so I came up with the following two classes:

public abstract class CustomPropertyEditorSupport extends PropertyEditorSupport {
    public abstract PropertyEditorSupport getPropertyEditor();
}

public class CustomPropertyEditorRegistrar implements PropertyEditorRegistrar  {
    public void registerCustomEditors(PropertyEditorRegistry registry) {
        Iterator<Class> it=customPropertyEditorSupport.keySet().iterator();
        while(it.hasNext())
        {
            Class clazz=it.next();
            PropertyEditorSupport editor=customPropertyEditorSupport.get(clazz).getPropertyEditor();
            registry.registerCustomEditor(clazz,editor);
        }
    }
    public void setCustomPropertyEditorSupport(Map<Class,CustomPropertyEditorSupport> customPropertyEditorSupport )
    {
        this.customPropertyEditorSupport=customPropertyEditorSupport;
    }
    Map<Class,CustomPropertyEditorSupport> customPropertyEditorSupport;
}

Now I was able to use the following in my servlet.xml

    <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomEditorConfigurer">
        <property name="propertyEditorRegistrars">
            <list>
                <ref bean="customPropertyEditorRegistrar"/>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>
    
    <bean id="customPropertyEditorRegistrar" class="se.xxx.invoice.CustomPropertyEditorRegistrar">
        <property name="customPropertyEditorSupport">
            <map>
                <entry key="se.xxx.invoice.classes.myClass">
                    <bean class="se.xxx.invoice.CustomPropertyEditorSupport">
                        <lookup-method name="getPropertyEditor" bean="myEditorClass"/>
                    </bean>
                </entry>
            </map>
        </property>
    </bean>

and then be able to use the bean myEditorClass with org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomEdi torConfigurer aswell.

Is this the right way to go? Is there already any standard way of doing this?

Best regards,
Jonas