Dealing with command line arguments and Spring

Question

When I\'m writing a Spring command line application which parses command line arguments, how do I pass them to Spring? Would I want to have my main() structured so that it f

Answer 1

Consider the following class:

public class ExternalBeanReferneceFactoryBean 
    extends AbstractFactoryBean
    implements BeanNameAware {

    private static Map instances = new HashMap();
    private String beanName;

    /**
     * @param instance the instance to set
     */
    public static void setInstance(String beanName, Object instance) {
        instances.put(beanName, instance);
    }

    @Override
    protected Object createInstance() 
        throws Exception {
        return instances.get(beanName);
    }

    @Override
    public Class getObjectType() {
        return instances.get(beanName).getClass();
    }

    @Override
    public void setBeanName(String name) {
        this.beanName = name;
    }

}

along with:

/**
 * Starts the job server.
 * @param args command line arguments
 */
public static void main(String[] args) {

    // parse the command line
    CommandLineParser parser = new GnuParser();
    CommandLine cmdLine = null;
    try {
        cmdLine = parser.parse(OPTIONS, args);
    } catch(ParseException pe) {
        System.err.println("Error parsing command line: "+pe.getMessage());
        new HelpFormatter().printHelp("command", OPTIONS);
        return;
    }

    // create root beanFactory
    DefaultListableBeanFactory beanFactory = new DefaultListableBeanFactory();

    // register bean definition for the command line
    ExternalBeanReferneceFactoryBean.setInstance("commandLine", cmdLine);
    beanFactory.registerBeanDefinition("commandLine", BeanDefinitionBuilder
        .rootBeanDefinition(ExternalBeanReferneceFactoryBean.class)
        .getBeanDefinition());

    // create application context
    GenericApplicationContext rootAppContext = new GenericApplicationContext(beanFactory);
    rootAppContext.refresh();

    // create the application context
    ApplicationContext appContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[] { 
        "/commandlineapp/applicationContext.xml"
    }, rootAppContext);

    System.out.println(appContext.getBean("commandLine"));

}