How to Autowire Bean of generic type in Spring?

Question

I have a bean Item which is required to be autowired in a @Configuration class.

@Configuration
public class AppConfig {

          


        

Answer 1

Below is a solution I made to answer this question:

        List listItem= new ArrayList<>();

        ResolvableType resolvableType = ResolvableType.forClassWithGenerics(List.class, String.class);
        RootBeanDefinition beanDefinition = new RootBeanDefinition();
        beanDefinition.setTargetType(resolvableType);
        beanDefinition.setAutowireMode(AbstractBeanDefinition.AUTOWIRE_BY_TYPE);
        beanDefinition.setAutowireCandidate(true);

        DefaultListableBeanFactory bf = (DefaultListableBeanFactory) configurableWebApplicationContext.getBeanFactory();

        bf.registerBeanDefinition("your bean name", beanDefinition);
        bf.registerSingleton("your bean name", listItem);