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Inject the value of xml id into spring bean

I'm curious if anyone knows a quick way to accomplish my goal. I want to inject the value of the id into a String on my spring bean.

This is what I want in a nutshell:

<bean id="matsientst" class="com.matt.Matt"/>

public class Matt {
    @Value("#id")
    String id;
}

The reason I need this is that we have a lot of objects that are configured in our spring xml that I also need to manage in the DB. The Spring id is a convenient key that I can use. I don't want to have to inject all my objects since I have them all abstracted I could elegantly have the Abstract class set the ID. That is, if this works. Thanks -matt

Solution

  • Just implement BeanNameAware, and Spring will supply the id or name attribute (whichever one you used), e.g.

    public class Matt implements BeanNameAware {
    private String id;

    public void setName(String beanName) {
       this.id = beanName;
    }
}