How can I get a list of instantiated beans from Spring?

Question

I have several beans in my Spring context that have state, so I\'d like to reset that state before/after unit tests.

My idea was to add a method to a helper class wh

Answer 1

I am not sure whether this will help you or not.

You need to create your own annotation eg. MyAnnot. And place that annotation on the class which you want to get. And then using following code you might get the instantiated bean.

ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider scanner = new ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider(false);
scanner.addIncludeFilter(new AnnotationTypeFilter(MyAnnot.class));
for (BeanDefinition beanDefinition : scanner.findCandidateComponents("com.xxx.yyy")){
    System.out.println(beanDefinition.getBeanClassName());
}

This way you can get all the beans having your custom annotation.