[coldspring-dev] Config/Inheritance Question

[Anthony Israel-Davis]

I'm running into a problem and I don't know if it's a problem in my code
or a misunderstanding about how the Coldspring beanfactory wires up
components. I'm using version 1.1.1.

I have two subclasses that use components that are composed into the
base class. I'm unit testing using CFCUnit, but my tests are returning
errors saying "ComposedClassA is undefined in variables." despite a
setComposedClassA method in the base class.

My bean definition looks something like this:

<beans>
        <bean id="ComposedClassA" class="path.to.ComposedClassA" />
        <bean id="ComposedClassB" class="path.to.ComposedClassB" />
        <bean id="MockComposedClassA" class="path.to.MockComposedClassA"
/>
        <bean id="MockComposedClassb" class="path.to.MockComposedClassB"
/>
        <bean id="BaseClass" class="path.to.BaseClass">
                <property name="ComposedClassA">
                        <ref bean="MockComposedClassA"/>
                </property>
                <property name="ComposedClassB">
                        <ref bean="MockComposedClassB"/>
                </property>
        </bean>
        <bean id="SubClassA" class="path.to.SubClassA"/>
        <bean id="SubClassB" class="path.to.SubClassB" />
</beans>

There are getters and setters in BaseClass for ComposedClass(A-B), so my
question is when I call local.beanFactory.getBean('SubClassA') (which
extends BaseClass) does Coldspring call the BaseClass' setters? It seems
to not call inherited setters, but if, in the config file, I put the
properties in SubClassA it configures the bean correctly.

So am I doing something wrong or is Coldspring performing as expected? I
couldn't find anything in the documentation or in the forums
specifically about this, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
anthony