Spring bean autowire by constructor is analogous to spring bean autowire by type but applies to constructor arguments.
Let’s discuss spring bean autowire by constructor with below example. In below example we have SortNumbers class which have one dependency for sorting implementation. We use spring bean autowire by constructor here as we take sortAlgo as constructor argument and in application context there is only one property exist of IsortAlgo type (BubbleSort).
Note: If there is more than one, a fatal exception is thrown or we have to provide the qualify information to help spring for identifying which one it should use.
We are using spring boot here.
Example
SpringAutowiringApplication.java
package com.w3schools360.SpringAutowiring; import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication; import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication; import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext; @SpringBootApplication public class SpringAutowiringApplication { private static ApplicationContext appContext; public static void main(String[] args) { appContext = SpringApplication.run(SpringAutowiringApplication.class, args); sort(new int[]{ 31,22,13,43,15,6,37}); } private static void sort(int[] data) { SortNumbers sortNumers = (SortNumbers) appContext.getBean("sortNumbers"); sortNumers.sortNumbers(data); } }
SortNumbers.java
package com.w3schools360.SpringAutowiring; import org.springframework.stereotype.Component; @Component public class SortNumbers { ISortAlgo sortalgo; public SortNumbers(ISortAlgo sortalgo) { super(); this.sortalgo = sortalgo; } public void sortNumbers(int[] data){ printNumbers(sortalgo.sort(data)); } private static void printNumbers(int[] data) { for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) { System.out.print(data[i]); if(i != data.length-1){ System.out.print(", "); } } System.out.println("\n"); } }
ISortAlgo.java
package com.w3schools360.SpringAutowiring; public interface ISortAlgo { public int[] sort(int[] data); }
BubbleSort.java
package com.w3schools360.SpringAutowiring; import org.springframework.stereotype.Component; @Component public class BubbleSort implements ISortAlgo { @Override public int[] sort(int[] array) { int n = array.length; int k; for (int m = n; m >= 0; m--) { for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) { k = i + 1; if (array[i] > array[k]) { swapNumbers(i, k, array); } } } return array; } private void swapNumbers(int i, int j, int[] array) { int temp; temp = array[i]; array[i] = array[j]; array[j] = temp; } }
Output
6, 13, 15, 22, 31, 37, 43
Related topics
- Spring autowire tutorial
- Spring autowire by name
- Spring autowire by type
- Spring autowire by constructor