Spring get current ApplicationContext

Question

I am using Spring MVC for my web application. My beans are written in \"spring-servlet.xml\" file

Now I have a class MyClass and i want to

Answer 1

ApplicationContext applicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("/spring-servlet.xml");

Then you can retrieve the bean:

MyClass myClass = (MyClass) context.getBean("myClass");

Reference: springbyexample.org

Answer 2

Another way is to inject applicationContext through servlet.

This is an example of how to inject dependencies when using Spring web services.

<servlet>
        <servlet-name>my-soap-ws</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>transformWsdlLocations</param-name>
            <param-value>false</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>classpath:my-applicationContext.xml</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>

</servlet>

Alternate way is to add application Context in your web.xml as shown below

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>
        /WEB-INF/classes/my-another-applicationContext.xml
        classpath:my-second-context.xml
    </param-value>
</context-param>

Basically you are trying to tell servlet that it should look for beans defined in these context files.

Answer 3

based on Vivek's answer, but I think the following would be better:

@Component("applicationContextProvider")
public class ApplicationContextProvider implements ApplicationContextAware {

    private static class AplicationContextHolder{

        private static final InnerContextResource CONTEXT_PROV = new InnerContextResource();

        private AplicationContextHolder() {
            super();
        }
    }

    private static final class InnerContextResource {

        private ApplicationContext context;

        private InnerContextResource(){
            super();
        }

        private void setContext(ApplicationContext context){
            this.context = context;
        }
    }

    public static ApplicationContext getApplicationContext() {
        return AplicationContextHolder.CONTEXT_PROV.context;
    }

    @Override
    public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext ac) {
        AplicationContextHolder.CONTEXT_PROV.setContext(ac);
    }
}

Writing from an instance method to a static field is a bad practice and dangerous if multiple instances are being manipulated.

Answer 4

If you're implementing a class that's not instantiated by Spring, like a JsonDeserializer you can use:

WebApplicationContext context = ContextLoader.getCurrentWebApplicationContext();
MyClass myBean = context.getBean(MyClass.class);

Answer 5

I think this link demonstrates the best way to get application context anywhere, even in the non-bean class. I find it very useful. Hope its the same for you. The below is the abstract code of it

Create a new class ApplicationContextProvider.java

package com.java2novice.spring;

import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;

public class ApplicationContextProvider implements ApplicationContextAware{

    private static ApplicationContext context;

    public static ApplicationContext getApplicationContext() {
        return context;
    }

    @Override
    public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext ac)
            throws BeansException {
        context = ac;
    }
}

Add an entry in application-context.xml

<bean id="applicationContextProvider"
                        class="com.java2novice.spring.ApplicationContextProvider"/>

In annotations case (instead of application-context.xml)

@Component
public class ApplicationContextProvider implements ApplicationContextAware{
...
}

Get the context like this

TestBean tb = ApplicationContextProvider.getApplicationContext().getBean("testBean", TestBean.class);

Cheers!!

Answer 6

Add this to your code

@Autowired
private ApplicationContext _applicationContext;

//Add below line in your calling method
MyClass class = (MyClass) _applicationContext.getBean("myClass");

// Or you can simply use this, put the below code in your controller data member declaration part.
@Autowired
private MyClass myClass;

This will simply inject myClass into your application