Autowiring a collection via the constructor with Spring

Question

I have what seems to be a simple problem, as stated in the title. Here is the kind of class I have :

public class Foo {
    @Autowired
    public Foo(@Qualifier(         


        

Answer 1

I think this is because Spring interprets the autowiring of a collection as "give me all beans of type String", rather than "give me the bean which is a collection of String". The error message supports that idea.

I don't think you can use autowiring for this. Short of manually wiring it up in the XML, the best I can suggest is:

public class Foo {  
   private @Resource Set bar;
}