Bryan S said the following on 8/9/2007 10:37 AM:
I was sidetracked at work shortly after starting this thread. I'm just
getting back to it today. I've dug deeper and this still has me
stumped. I know that my set method is getting called and
variables.instance.activedirectorydao does have a value before it
leaves the setter but then when it gets to the getter it doesn't have
it any more I don't know what is causing this. Any help would be
appreciated.
Where are you calling the get method? Inside your init() method
perhaps? ColdSpring calls init() but does NOT calls the required
setters until later in the process. If you are call
getActiveDirectoryDAO() in your init() method, it won't be there because
it hasn't been set yet.
Resolution:
1. Use constructor-arg injection (not preferred since it can lead to
unresolvable circular dependences later down the line)
- or -
2. Move service setup code from your init() method into the a new
method (I usually call mine setup) and add init-method="setup" to your
CS bean xml file. ColdSpring will init() the service, do stuff, wire in
any dependencies and lastly - before returned the fully composed object
- call your "init-method" (in this example called "setup"). Yea, I know
that init-method is strange attribute name, but that's because Java has
it's own constructors and in CF use init() as the defacto standard for a
constructor (since CF doesn't have built-in constructors). So there is
a bit of differences going on here as we try to keep inline with
Spring.dtd and Spring's implementation.
HTH,
Peter
