Spring Map Property

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Spring Map Property
Posted on: August 13, 2010 at 12:00 AM

In this tutorial you will learn about the spring map property.

Spring Map Property

The Spring Framework has bean support for the Collections. It provide list, set, map and props elements. Here in this tutorial you will see about the map elements which is used to set values inside the map.

CollegeBean.java


package collection.map.example;



import java.util.Map;



public class CollegeBean {

  private Map<Object, Object> maps;



  public Map<Object, Object> getMaps() {

    return maps;

  }



  public void setMaps(Map<Object, Object> maps) {

    this.maps = maps;

  }



  @Override

  public String toString() {

    return "College [Maps=" + maps + "]";

  }

}

StudentBean.java


package collection.set.example;



public class StudentBean {

  private String name;

  private String address;



  public String getName() {

    return name;

  }



  public void setName(String name) {

    this.name = name;

  }



  public String getAddress() {

    return address;

  }



  public void setAddress(String address) {

    this.address = address;

  }



  @Override

  public String toString() {

    return "Student [address=" + address + ", name=" + name + "]";

  }

}

MapMain.java

package collection.map.example;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class MapMain {
   public static void main( String[] args )
      {
    BeanFactory beanfactory = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("context.xml");
      CollegeBean coll = (CollegeBean)beanfactory.getBean("collegeBean2");
      System.out.println(coll);
      }
}

context.xml


	<!-- Spring Map Property -->

    <bean id="collegeBean2" class="collection.map.example.CollegeBean">

    <property name="maps">

    <map>

      <entry key="Key 1" value="1" />

      <entry key="Key 2" value-ref="studentBean2" />

      <entry key="Key 3">

        <bean class="collection.map.example.StudentBean">

          <property name="name" value="mkyongMap" />

          <property name="address" value="address" />

        

        </bean>

      </entry>

    </map>

  </property>



  </bean>



  <bean id="studentBean2" class="collection.map.example.StudentBean">

    <property name="name" value="mkyong1" />

    <property name="address" value="address 1" />

  </bean>

<!-- End -->

When you run this application it will display output as shown below:

College [Maps={Key 1=1, Key 2=Student [address=pune, name=suraj], Key 3=Student [address=patna, name=satya]}]

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