Autowire reference beans into list by type

Question

I have one class that has a list of objects of Daemon type.

class Xyz {    
    List daemons;
}

My spring config

Answer 1

It should work like this (remove the ArrayList bean from your XML):

public Class Xyz {    

    private List daemons;

    @Autowired
    public void setDaemons(List daemons){
        this.daemons = daemons;
    }

}

I don't think there's a way to do this in XML.

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See: 3.9.2. @Autowired and @Inject:

It is also possible to provide all beans of a particular type from the ApplicationContext by adding the annotation to a field or method that expects an array of that type:

public class MovieRecommender {

  @Autowired
  private MovieCatalog[] movieCatalogs;

  // ...
}

The same applies for typed collections:

public class MovieRecommender {

  private Set movieCatalogs;

  @Autowired
  // or if you don't want a setter, annotate the field
  public void setMovieCatalogs(Set movieCatalogs) {
      this.movieCatalogs = movieCatalogs;
  }

  // ...
}

BTW, as of Spring 4.x, these lists can be ordered automatically using the @Ordered mechanism.