How do I autowire a Spring TaskExecutor created thread?

Question

According to Spring\'s documentation the way to use the TaskExecutor is as follows:

import org.springframework.core.task.TaskExecutor;

public class TaskExecutor         


        

Answer 1

There are two ways I think that you can go about this:

a. Provide the dependencies to the Task - this way:

class MessagePrinterTask implements Runnable {
    public MessagePrinterTask(ADependency aDependency){
        this.aDependency = aDependency;
    }


    private ADependency aDependency;

    public void run() {
        aDependency.doNotThrowNullPointerExceptionPlease();
    }
}

And in your TaskExectorExample which can be the singleton:

import org.springframework.core.task.TaskExecutor;

public class TaskExecutorExample {

  @Autowired  private ADependency aDependency;

  @Autowired
  public TaskExecutorExample(TaskExecutor taskExecutor) {
    this.taskExecutor = taskExecutor;
  }

  public void printMessages() {
    for(int i = 0; i < 25; i++) {
      taskExecutor.execute(new MessagePrinterTask(this.aDependency));
    }
  }
}

b. Using @Configurable annotation on your MesasgePrinterTask, this will inject in dependencies into MessagePrinterTask even though it is instantiated outside of a Spring Container - there are some catches in using @Configurable though(requires AspectJ):

@Configurable
class MessagePrinterTask implements Runnable {