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Compound Property 

Spring Inversion of Control (IoC) also known as Dependency Injection (DI) is a process by which objects define their dependencies with collaborating objects. The following example shows referring compound properties in bean definition. We can extend the compound property chain (for instance company.manager.address.street.name) as long as all components of the path except the final property name are not null.

File Name  :  
/SpringCore001/conf/gen/compound_prop.xml 

File Name  :  
com/bethecoder/tutorials/spring3/basic/Department.java 
   
package com.bethecoder.tutorials.spring3.basic;

import java.util.List;

public class Department {

  private Employee manager = null;
  private List<Employee> employees = null;

  public List<Employee> getEmployees() {
    return employees;
  }

  public void setEmployees(List<Employee> employees) {
    this.employees = employees;
  }

  public Employee getManager() {
    return manager;
  }

  public void setManager(Employee manager) {
    this.manager = manager;
  }
  
}
   

File Name  :  
com/bethecoder/tutorials/spring3/basic/Employee.java 
   
package com.bethecoder.tutorials.spring3.basic;

public class Employee {
  
  private int id;
  private String name;
  private double salary;
  
  public Employee() {
    super();
    this.id = -1;
    this.name = "Unknown";
    this.salary = 0;
  }
  
  public Employee(int id, String name) {
    super();
    this.id = id;
    this.name = name;
    this.salary = 20000;
  }
  
  public Employee(int id, String name, double salary) {
    super();
    this.id = id;
    this.name = name;
    this.salary = salary;
  }

  public int getId() {
    return id;
  }
  
  public void setId(int id) {
    this.id = id;
  }
  
  public String getName() {
    return name;
  }
  
  public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
  }
  
  public double getSalary() {
    return salary;
  }
  
  public void setSalary(double salary) {
    this.salary = salary;
  }
  
  public String toString() {
    return "Employee[" + id + ", " + name + ", " + salary + "]";
  }
  
}
   

File Name  :  
com/bethecoder/tutorials/spring3/tests/gen/CompundProperty.java 
Author  :  Sudhakar KV
Email  :  [email protected]
   
package com.bethecoder.tutorials.spring3.tests.gen;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;

import com.bethecoder.tutorials.spring3.basic.Department;

public class CompundProperty {

  /**
   * @param args
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    XmlBeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(
                new ClassPathResource("compound_prop.xml"));

    Department dept = (Department) factory.getBean("dept");
    System.out.println(dept.getManager());

  }

}
   

It gives the following output, 
Employee[1, ABC2, 90000.0]



 
  


  
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