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javaspringspring-boot
msquitieri
msquitieri

Reputation: 342

Get reference to ApplicationContext with @ImportResource annotation?

I have the following class:

@SpringBootApplication
@ImportResource("classpath:path-to-application-context.xml")
public class SocketMain extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
     // ...
  }
}

I want to get access to the application context in my main function so I can fetch one of my defined beans. I can't autowire it since you cannot autowire a static variable. Is there a way to get a reference to the applicationContext that is loaded with the @ImportResource annotation?

My fallback is to just load the applicationContext in main like so: 

ClassPathXmlApplicationContext applicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("path-to-application-context.xml");`

But I don't want to load it twice.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 762

Answers (1)

kkflf
kkflf

Reputation: 2570

This is the way to retrieve your application context in Spring and retrieve a bean. This should be placed in your main function

ApplicationContext ctx = SpringApplication.run(SocketMain.class, args);
SomeClass sc = ctx.getBean(SomeClass.class);
sc.testRun();

You should also be able to retrieve the context with @Autowired.

@Autowired
private ApplicationContext context;

Upvotes: 2

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