Develop Reference

Using Autowired bean inside Preauthorize expression in Spring

I have the following class for a resource in my Spring Application
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/whatever")
public class SomeResource {
#Autowired
private CoolService coolService;
#RequestMapping(
path = "",
method = RequestMethod.GET)
#PreAuthorize("hasPerm(#coolService.resolve(#attribute))")
public void resource(#PathVariable("attribute") int attribute) {
...
}
And I want to call the bean implementing CoolService that has been autowired by the Spring context, because for CoolService I have two beans that get activated depending on the profile at startup.
public interface CoolService {
resolve(int attribute);
}
#Service
#Profile("super")
public interface SuperCoolService implements CoolService {
public Object resolve(int attribute){...}
}
#Service
#Profile("ultra")
public interface UltraCoolService implements CoolService {
public Object resolve(int attribute){...}
}
However it seems that Spring does not know which bean to use because there is no single bean just named CoolService, and inside the Preauthorize I can't write #superCoolService or #ultraCoolService because it is profile-dependant.
How can I achieve this?

If you want to define 2 bean implement same interface, then you can user annotation #Qualifier.
For example:
#Service
#Qualifier("service1")
public interface SuperCoolService implements CoolService {
public Object resolve(int attribute){...}
}
#Service
#Qualifier("service1")
public interface UltraCoolService implements CoolService {
public Object resolve(int attribute){...}
}

What is the difference between using #Qualifier annotation and directly injecting bean in spring?

Suppose I have a program
#Component
public interface Coach{
public String giveCoaching();
}
#Component
public TennisCoach implements Coach{
#Override
public String giveCoaching(){
return "Teaching forhand";
}
}
I have two Demo classes in which I have injected the bean in different ways. what is the difference in both the injections
public class AppDemo{
#AutoWired
#Qualifier("tennisCoach")
private Coach theCoach;
}
public class AppDemo{
#AutoWired
private TennisCoach tennisCoach;
}
}

When you have more than 1 implementation for you interface, you will get an exception when Autowiring the bean. At that time #Qualifier will be used to choose the required implementation
#Component
public interface Coach{
public String giveCoaching();
}
#Component
public TennisCoach implements Coach{
#Override
public String giveCoaching(){
return "Teaching forhand";
}
}
#Component
public CricketCoach implements Coach{
#Override
public String giveCoaching(){
return "Teaching forbat";
}
}
Now the ambiguity will occur when you autowire the Coach Interface like below
public class AppDemo{
#AutoWired
private Coach theCoach;
}
So you have to qualify the right bean for the CoachInterface like below.
public class AppDemo{
#AutoWired
#Qualifier("tennisCoach")
private Coach theCoach;
}
Alternatively you can use #Primary annotation on top of any one of the implementation so that the Spring Container will by default choose the bean in case of more than 1 implementation for an interface.
But in the code below, you are directly creating the object for the implementation rather than interface.
public class AppDemo{
#AutoWired
private TennisCoach tennisCoach;
}
}

#Qualifier annotation is used when your interface has more than one implementing class, You should opt for the one you want inject as a bean in spring context.

restrict user to autowire only interface

I have the following interface
public interface MTS{
public SrvResponse sendMessage(MTSModel msg);
public SrvResponse sendMessage(MTSModel msg, Type type);
}
the implementation
#Component
public class MTSImpl implements MTS {...}
Can I restrict user to autowire only interface private #Autowired MTS service; not MTSImpl in spring boot ?

Can I restrict user to autowire only interface private #Autowired MTS
service; not MTSImpl in spring boot ?
Spring doesn't provide such restrictions for injections.
As alternative you could "protected" your implementation class from clients by making it package private (the default access modifier) in a package that they don't use :
package foo.internal;
class MTSImpl implements MTS {
...
}
Or to hide it completely you could define it as an anonymous class :
#Bean
public MTS getMts() {
return new MTS() {
#Override
public SrvResponse sendMessage(MTSModel msg){
...
}
#Override
public SrvResponse sendMessage(MTSModel msg, Type type){
...
}
};
}

How to extend #Service?

Here is a sample class below:
#Service("testService")
public class TestService {
public String something() {
return "abc";
}
}
I want to extend the class and let the container know that it needs to pick up my extended class from now.
#Service("extendedTestService")
public class ExtendedTestServiceMock extends TestService {
#Override
public String something() {
return "xyz";
}
}
Test class:
public class TestClass extends SpringTest {
#Autowired
#Qualifier("extendedTestService")
private ExtendedTestService testService;
public void testMethod() {
......
}
}
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoUniqueBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [TestService] is defined: expected single matching bean but found 2: ExtendedTestServiceMock,testService
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:865) ~[spring-beans-3.2.8.RELEASE.jar:3.2.8.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:770) ~[spring-beans-3.2.8.RELEASE.jar:3.2.8.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:489) ~[spring-beans-3.2.8.RELEASE.jar:3.2.8.RELEASE]
... 91 common frames omitted
How to resolve it?

Try using interfaces.
public interface TestService {
String something();
}
Implementations:
#Service
#Qualifier("testService")
public class TestServiceImpl implements TestService { ... }
#Service
#Qualifier("testServiceMock")
public class TestServiceMockImpl implements TestService { ... }
And the test class:
public class TestClass extends SpringTest {
#Autowired
#Qualifier("extendedTestService")
private TestService testService;
...
}

One solution that would work in your case is the #Primary annotation.
Your TestServiceMockImpl would look like:
#Service("extendedTestService ")
#Primary
public class ExtendedTestServiceMock extends TestService {
#override
public String something() {
return "xyz";
}
}
Check out this for more details on #Primary
I however suggest that you don't follow the above solution (since this will get out of hand very quick if you start using #Primary everywhere), that you instead take a look at Spring Profiles
There are a lot of way you could create your Spring configuration using profiles, but regardless of how you end up configuring the beans, the end result would be a more clean design.

If you have an identifier to help you decide which service to initialize, then you can use ConditionlOnProperty annotation
Ex:
#Service
#ConditionlOnProperty(value = "test.service.extension.enabled")
public class TestService {
}
#Service
#ConditionlOnProperty(value = "test.service.extension.enabled", havingValue = "false")
public class ExtendedTestServiceMock extends TestService {
}
If you want to use the extended test service, you can set the property test.service.extension.enabled=true in your application.properties

It depends on your definition order if your service define on the xml file.
Otherwise, you could use a BeanFactoryPostProcessor to do this, which is only registered in the test scenarios that you want this mocked.
public class SystemTestBeanFactoryPostProcessor implements BeanFactoryPostProcessor {
#Override
public void postProcessBeanFactory(ConfigurableListableBeanFactory factory) throws BeansException {
// put your custom code in here
}
}
Or you can use #DependsOn to make sure the parent bean should be deploy firstly then your extend bean
#Service("testService")
#DependsOn("testService")
public class ExtendedTestService extends TestService {
}
Hope this helps.

Spring 3.2 Autowire generic types

So I have a number of generics in Spring 3.2 and ideally my architecture would look something like this.
class GenericDao<T>{}
class GenericService<T, T_DAO extends GenericDao<T>>
{
// FAILS
#Autowired
T_DAO;
}
#Component
class Foo{}
#Repository
class FooDao extends GenericDao<Foo>{}
#Service
FooService extends GenericService<Foo, FooDao>{}
Unfortunately with multiple implementations of the generics the autowiring throws an error about multiple matching bean definitions. I assume this is because #Autowired processes before type erasure. Every solution I've found or come up with looks ugly to me or just inexplicably refuses to work. What is the best way around this problem?

How about adding a constructor to the GenericService and move the autowiring to the extending class, e.g.
class GenericService<T, T_DAO extends GenericDao<T>> {
private final T_DAO tDao;
GenericService(T_DAO tDao) {
this.tDao = tDao;
}
}
#Service
FooService extends GenericService<Foo, FooDao> {
#Autowired
FooService(FooDao fooDao) {
super(fooDao);
}
}
Update:
As of Spring 4.0 RC1, it is possible to autowire based on generic type, which means that you can write a generic service like
class GenericService<T, T_DAO extends GenericDao<T>> {
#Autowired
private T_DAO tDao;
}
and create multiple different Spring beans of it like:
#Service
class FooService extends GenericService<Foo, FooDao> {
}

Here is a closest solution. The specialized DAOs are annotated at the business layer. As in the question from OP, the best effort would be having an annotated DAO in the EntityDAO generic template itself. Type erasure seems to be not allowing the specialized type information to get passed onto the spring factories [resulting in reporting matching beans from all the specialized DAOs]
The Generic Entity DAO template
public class EntityDAO<T>
{
#Autowired
SessionFactory factory;
public Session getCurrentSession()
{
return factory.getCurrentSession();
}
public void create(T record)
{
getCurrentSession().save(record);
}
public void update(T record)
{
getCurrentSession().update(record);
}
public void delete(T record)
{
getCurrentSession().delete(record);
}
public void persist(T record)
{
getCurrentSession().saveOrUpdate(record);
}
public T get(Class<T> clazz, Integer id)
{
return (T) getCurrentSession().get(clazz, id);
}
}
The Generic Entity Based Business Layer Template
public abstract class EntityBusinessService<T>
implements Serializable
{
public abstract EntityDAO<T> getDAO();
//Rest of code.
}
An Example Specialized Entity DAO
#Transactional
#Repository
public class UserDAO
extends EntityDAO<User>
{
}
An Example Specialized Entity Business Class
#Transactional
#Service
#Scope("prototype")
public class UserBusinessService
extends EntityBusinessService<User>
{
#Autowired
UserDAO dao;
#Override
public EntityDAO<User> getDAO()
{
return dao;
}
//Rest of code
}

You can remove the #autowire annotation and perform delayed “autowire” using #PostConstruct and ServiceLocatorFactoryBean.
Your GenericService will look similar to this
public class GenericService<T, T_DAO extends GenericDao<T>>{
#Autowired
private DaoLocator daoLocatorFactoryBean;
//No need to autowried, autowireDao() will do this for you
T_DAO dao;
#SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
#PostConstruct
protected void autowireDao(){
//Read the actual class at run time
final Type type;
type = ((ParameterizedType) getClass().getGenericSuperclass())
.getActualTypeArguments()[1];
//figure out the class of the fully qualified class name
//this way you can know the bean name to look for
final String typeClass = type.toString();
String daoName = typeClass.substring(typeClass.lastIndexOf('.')+1
,typeClass.length());
daoName = Character.toLowerCase(daoName.charAt(0)) + daoName.substring(1);
this.dao = (T_DAO) daoLocatorFactoryBean.lookup(daoName);
}
daoLocatorFactoryBean does the magic for you.
In order to use it you need to add an interface similar to the one below:
public interface DaoLocator {
public GenericDao<?> lookup(String serviceName);
}
You need to add the following snippet to your applicationContext.xml
<bean id="daoLocatorFactoryBean"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ServiceLocatorFactoryBean">
<property name="serviceLocatorInterface"
value="org.haim.springframwork.stackoverflow.DaoLocator" />
</bean>
This is a nice trick and it will save you little boilerplate classes.
B.T.W I do not see this boilerplate code as a big issue and the project I working for uses matsev approach.

Why do you want a generic service ? Service classes are meant for specific units of work involving multple entities. You can just inject a repository straight into a controller.
Here is an example of generic repository with constructor argument, you could also make each method Generic instead and have no constructor argument. But each method call would require class as parameter:
public class DomainRepository<T> {
#Resource(name = "sessionFactory")
protected SessionFactory sessionFactory;
public DomainRepository(Class genericType) {
this.genericType = genericType;
}
#Transactional(readOnly = true)
public T get(final long id) {
return (T) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().get(genericType, id);
}
Example of bean definition for the generic repository - you could have multple different beans, using different contstructor args.
<bean id="tagRepository" class="com.yourcompnay.data.DomainRepository">
<constructor-arg value="com.yourcompnay.domain.Tag"/>
</bean>
Depdncy injection of bean using resource annotation
#Resource(name = "tagRepository")
private DomainRepository<Tag> tagRepository;
And this allows the Domainreposiroty to be subclassed for specific entities/methods, which woul dallow autowiring :
public class PersonRepository extends DomainRepository<Person> {
public PersonRepository(){
super(Person.class);
}
...

You should use autowiring in classes which extends these generics

For this question one needs to understand about what autowire is. In common terms we can say that through autowire we create a object instance/bean at the time of deployment of the web app. So now going with the question if you are declaring autowiring in multiple places with the same name. Then this error comes. Autowiring can be done in multiple ways so if you are using multiple type of autowiring technique, then also one could get this error.

Complete Generic Solution using Spring 4:
Domain Class
#Component
class Foo{
}
#Component
class Bar{
}
DAO Layer
interface GenericDao<T>{
//list of methods
}
class GenericDaoImpl<T> implements GenericDao<T>{
#Autowired
SessionFactory factory;
private Class<T> domainClass; // Get Class Type of <T>
public Session getCurrentSession(){
return factory.getCurrentSession();
}
public DaoImpl() {
this.domainClass = (Class<T>) GenericTypeResolver.resolveTypeArgument(getClass(), DaoImpl.class);
}
//implementation of methods
}
interface FooDao extends GenericDao<Foo>{
//Define extra methods if required
}
interface BarDao extends GenericDao<Bar>{
//Define extra methods if required
}
#Repository
class FooDao extends GenericDaoImpl<Foo> implements FooDao{
//implementation of extra methods
}
#Repository
class BarDao extends GenericDaoImpl<Bar> implements BarDao{
//implementation of extra methods
}
Service Layer
interface GenericService<T>{
//List of methods
}
class GenericServiceImpl<T> implements GenericService<T>{
#Autowire
protected GenericDao<T> dao; //used to access DAO layer
}
class FooService extends GenericService<Foo>{
//Add extra methods of required
}
class BarService extends GenericService<Bar>{
//Add extra methods of required
}
#Service
class FooServiceImpl extends GenericServiceImpl<Foo> implements GenericService<Foo>{
//implementation of extra methods
}
#Service
class BarServiceImpl extends GenericServiceImpl<Bar> implements GenericService<Bar>{
//implementation of extra methods
}