Java annotation scanning with spring

Question

I have few classes that I need to annotate with a name so I defined my annotation as

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
public @i         


        

Answer 1

You can provide a custom BeanNameGenerator to the ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner, which can look for the value of your annotation and return that as the bean name.

I think an implementation along these lines should work for you.

package org.bk.lmt.services;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationBeanNameGenerator;
public class CustomBeanNameGenerator extends AnnotationBeanNameGenerator{
    @Override
    protected boolean isStereotypeWithNameValue(String annotationType,
            Set metaAnnotationTypes, Map attributes) {

        return annotationType.equals("services.JsonUnmarshallable");
    }
}

Add this to your previous scanner code: scanner.setBeanNameGenerator(new CustomBeanNameGenerator());