In this Spring auto component scanning tutorial, you learn about how to make Spring auto scan your components. In this article, we show you how to do component filter in auto scanning process.
1. Filter component – include
See following example to use Spring “filtering” to scan and register components’ name which matched defined “regex”, even the class is not annotated with @Component.
DAO layer
package com.mkyong.customer.dao;
public class CustomerDAO {
@Override
public String toString() {
return "Hello , This is CustomerDAO";
}
}
Service layer
package com.mkyong.customer.services;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import com.mkyong.customer.dao.CustomerDAO;
public class CustomerService {
@Autowired
CustomerDAO customerDAO;
@Override public String toString() {
return "CustomerService [customerDAO=" + customerDAO + "]";
}
}
Spring filtering.
<beans
<context:component-scan base-package="com.mkyong" >
<context:include-filter type="regex" expression="com.mkyong.customer.dao.*DAO.*" />
<context:include-filter type="regex" expression="com.mkyong.customer.services.*Service.*" />
</context:component-scan>
</beans>
Run it
package
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
import com.mkyong.customer.services.CustomerService;
public class App {
public static void main( String[] args ) {
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[] {"Spring-AutoScan.xml"});
CustomerService cust = (CustomerService)context.getBean("customerService");
System.out.println(cust);
}
}
Output
CustomerService [customerDAO=Hello , This is CustomerDAO]
In this XML filtering, all files’s name contains DAO or Service (DAO., Services.) word will be detect and register in Spring container.
2. Filter component – exclude
On the other hand, you can also exclude specified components, to avoid Spring to detect and register it in Spring container.
Exclude those files annotated with @Service.
<context:component-scan base-package="com.mkyong.customer" >
<context:exclude-filter type="annotation" expression="org.springframework.stereotype.Service" />
</context:component-scan>
Exclude those files name contains DAO word.
<context:component-scan base-package="com.mkyong" >
<context:exclude-filter type="regex" expression="com.mkyong.customer.dao.*DAO.*" /> </context:component-scan>