Spring Dependency Injection With Map Collection Property

Map will stores the data in key, value base that to key, value must be the objects of any type.  One [ key, value ] is called one pair or one entry.

See here we have two entries [two pairs], one entry is k1  — 100 and second entry is k2   — 200

• Let us come to the concept, Map.Entry will gives one entry
• Map is the interface, Entry is the static class in Map interface, so we can call Map.Entry just remember this concept as of now
• Actually In this spring we always use Map.Entry class object only
  

In the XML

<map>
      <entry key="k1">
          <value>Oracle</value>
      </entry>

      <entry key="k2">
          <value>Sun</value>
      </entry>

      <entry key="k3">
          <value>Java4s</value>
      </entry>

      <entry key="k4" value-ref="id2" />
</map>

See in the xml, we have to configure like this, so we have 3 pairs [ key, values] means spring container will creates 3 Map.Entry class objects and stores those objects in <map />

One <entry /> tag will produces one object of Map.Entry, by the way k4 is to getting other bean class object.

Complete Example Using Map Collection

files will be used..

• WelcomeBean.java
• ClientLogic.java
• spconfig.xml

Directory structure:

WelcomeBean.java

package java4s;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
public class WelcomeBean {

	private Map data;	  

	public void setData(Map data) {
		this.data = data;
	}

	public void show()
	   {
		   Set s=data.entrySet();
		   Iterator it = s.iterator();
		   while(it.hasNext())
		   {
			   Map.Entry me = (Map.Entry)it.next();
			   System.out.println(me.getKey()+ " - "+me.getValue());
		   }
	   }

	}

spconfig.xml

<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN 2.0//EN"
"http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans-2.0.dtd">

<beans>
<bean id="id1" class="java4s.WelcomeBean">

<property name="data" >
   <map>
       <entry key="k1">
           <value>10</value>
       </entry>
       <entry key="k2">
           <value>java4s</value>
       </entry>
       <entry key="k3">
           <value>10.55</value>
       </entry>
   </map>
</property>

</bean>
</beans>

ClientLogic.java

package java4s;

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

public class ClientLogic {

	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		Resource res = new ClassPathResource("spconfig.xml");
		BeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(res);

		Object o = factory.getBean("id1");
		WelcomeBean wb = (WelcomeBean)o;

		wb.show();

	}

}

Explanation:

•  First take our ClientLogic.java, see line number 15 when we call factory.getBean(“id1”) then spring IOC will go to spconfig.xml and verify the class name having id1,  [ you can see this in spconfig.xml line number 5, there our class name is WelcomeBean ]
• Now it will jumps to WelcomeBean.java
• In WelcomeBean.java we have been taken Map property [ see line number 7 ], and written setter property for that Map
• In spconfig.xml we configured some values for that Map property right, so with this setter method spring IOC will inject all these values into Map data property
• now come to show() method at line number 13, here see the concept actually we don’t have any iterator for Map right, hope you know this fact 🙂  , but we need iterator to get and print the data from the Map, moreover List,Set have the iterator.
• So now we need Set or List to get the iterator,  so am going to take Set, at line number 15, of course you can go with List as well
• Actually data is of Map type, in Map we have one method called entrySet() which always returns Set object, so i got the iterator by using this Set object at line number 16
• Now see line number 19, i have been typecast into Map.Entry, so that i can print key and values separately by calling getKey() and getValues() methods in the Map.Entry Class [ I already given the concept about this Map.Entry go to top and check if you have any doubt regarding this ]
• And we done 🙂

And mates this Map having much importance in java remember….!!!!!!

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