Read all beans of class in Spring 3

Question

I need to read all beans of class com.Foo. How I used to do it:

BeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(new ClassPathResource(file));
Map elements = BeanFactoryUtils.beansOfTypeIncludingAncestors((ListableBeanFactory) factory, com.Foo.class);

It turns out that XmlBeanFactory is now deprecated. How do I read all beans of a given class in Spring 3.1 ?

edit: the new factory has to be able to load bean definition XML from any file, classpath or filesystem. Until now I used the Spring org.springframework.core.io.Resource interface and it worked pretty well (it has many implementations, for any kind of file)

Duplicate/related? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5231371 — Tomasz Nurkiewicz, Nov 26 '12 at 09:04
ListableBeanFactory is not deprecated, it's implemented by each and every application context class. There's nothing wrong with `beansOfTypeIncludingAncestors` — Boris Treukhov, Nov 26 '12 at 09:06
but `XmlBeanFactory` is deprecated. And I cant find a class that takes a `Resourc` as a ctor param (it's not always from classpath) — Queequeg, Nov 26 '12 at 09:07
try using ClassPathXmlApplicationContext instead. Resources are supported only by the application contexts not by the simple bean factories imho — Boris Treukhov, Nov 26 '12 at 09:09
Like I said - I read bean definitions from files not necessarily from the classpath — Queequeg, Nov 26 '12 at 09:15
You can also use GenericApplicationContext if you need to read the bean definitions from unusual places http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/api/org/springframework/context/support/GenericApplicationContext.html — Boris Treukhov, Nov 26 '12 at 09:24
I've updated the question. Please write an answer so I can accept it (if it works ;-) — Queequeg, Nov 26 '12 at 09:24
You want me to use a `ClassPathXml...` with a regular file? It sounds like a hack — Queequeg, Nov 26 '12 at 09:26
Yep, it seems that I'm wrong ))) I checked the source of ClassPathXml.. — Boris Treukhov, Nov 26 '12 at 09:35
Gotcha - the correct class is `GenericXmlApplicationContext` :-) — Boris Treukhov, Nov 26 '12 at 09:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 26 '12 at 09:41

The class that takes Resource and resource locations as constructor argument is GenericXmlApplicationContext

From javadoc:

Convenient application context with built-in XML support. This is a flexible alternative to ClassPathXmlApplicationContext and FileSystemXmlApplicationContext, to be configured via setters, with an eventual refresh() call activating the context.

As for beansOfTypeIncludingAncestors() and ListableBeanFactory they are not deprecated.

Read all beans of class in Spring 3

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