Inheriting Bean in Spring

Inheriting Bean in Spring

By using the parent attribute of bean, we can specify the inheritance relation between the beans. In such case, parent bean values will be inherited to the current bean.

Let's see the simple example to inherit the bean.

Employee.java

This class contains three properties, three constructor and show() method to display the values.

package com.javatpoint;

public class Employee {
private int id;
private String name;
private Address address;
public Employee() {}

public Employee(int id, String name) {
	super();
	this.id = id;
	this.name = name;
}
public Employee(int id, String name, Address address) {
	super();
	this.id = id;
	this.name = name;
	this.address = address;
}

void show(){
	System.out.println(id+" "+name);
	System.out.println(address);
}

}

Address.java

package com.javatpoint;

public class Address {
private String addressLine1,city,state,country;

public Address(String addressLine1, String city, String state, String country) {
	super();
	this.addressLine1 = addressLine1;
	this.city = city;
	this.state = state;
	this.country = country;
}
public String toString(){
	return addressLine1+" "+city+" "+state+" "+country;
}

}

applicationContext.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans
	xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

<bean id="e1" class="com.javatpoint.Employee">
<constructor-arg value="101"></constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg  value="Sachin"></constructor-arg>
</bean>

<bean id="address1" class="com.javatpoint.Address">
<constructor-arg value="21,Lohianagar"></constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg value="Ghaziabad"></constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg value="UP"></constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg value="USA"></constructor-arg>
</bean>

<bean id="e2" class="com.javatpoint.Employee" parent="e1">
<constructor-arg ref="address1"></constructor-arg>
</bean>

</beans>

Test.java

This class gets the bean from the applicationContext.xml file and calls the show method.

package com.javatpoint;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;

public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
	Resource r=new ClassPathResource("applicationContext.xml");
	BeanFactory factory=new XmlBeanFactory(r);
	
	Employee e1=(Employee)factory.getBean("e2");
	e1.show();
	
}
}

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