How to get Property from Spring Context in a pojo not managed by spring?

Question

I have a property file that is configured within spring context xml file. I load values from the file fine. I am trying to load a property from that property file in a regular pojo which is not spring managed. Since Spring has already loaded that property, i was wondering if there is a way to get the value instead of me having to load the property file manually?

Answer 1

You can access the Spring context in a static way if your pojo is not managed by Spring.

Add a bean to your application xml:

<bean id="StaticSpringApplicationContext" class="com.package.StaticSpringApplicationContext"/>

Create a class:

public class StaticSpringApplicationContext implements ApplicationContextAware  {
    private static ApplicationContext CONTEXT;

      public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext context) throws BeansException {
        CONTEXT = context;
      }

      public static Object getBean(String beanName) {
        return CONTEXT.getBean(beanName);
      }

}

Then you can acces any Spring bean from your POJO using:

StaticSpringApplicationContext.getBean("yourBean")