How to use Dozer with Spring Boot?

Question

I am working on a Spring Boot project. I just have annotation configuration. I want to include dozer to transform Entities to DTO and DTO to Entities. I see in the dozer website, they explain i have to add the following configuration in spring xml configuration file. Since i have not xml file but annotation configuration Java class, i don't know how to translate this into Java Configuration class.

<bean id="org.dozer.Mapper" class="org.dozer.DozerBeanMapper">
  <property name="mappingFiles">
    <list>
      <value>dozer-global-configuration.xml</value>
      <value>dozer-bean-mappings.xml</value>
      <value>more-dozer-bean-mappings.xml</value>
    </list>
  </property>
</bean>

If someone could you give me an example it'll be very useful. Thanks

Answer 1

I think something like this should work:

@Configuration
public class YourConfiguration {

  @Bean(name = "org.dozer.Mapper")
  public DozerBeanMapper dozerBean() {
    List<String> mappingFiles = Arrays.asList(
      "dozer-global-configuration.xml", 
      "dozer-bean-mappings.xml",
      "more-dozer-bean-mappings.xml"
    );

    DozerBeanMapper dozerBean = new DozerBeanMapper();
    dozerBean.setMappingFiles(mappingFiles);
    return dozerBean;
  }

  ...
}