Re: [Springframework-developer] Explicit reference to bean in parent context

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

Sorry, I meant to reply and completely forgot about it. I think this is 
a decent idea, and have been unable to think of any nagative 
possibilities arising out of it...

Colin

jürgen höller [werk3AT] wrote:

>Any opinions on this? I've already prototypically implemented it, and all tests pass. Just waiting whether there are any objections, or different naming proposals :-)
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>Juergen
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>Von: spr...@li... im Auftrag von jürgen höller [werk3AT]
>Gesendet: Di 15.06.2004 23:41
>An: spr...@li...
>Betreff: [Springframework-developer] Explicit reference to bean in parent context
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>There is an interesting feature request in our JIRA:
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>http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/SPR-166
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>Basically, a bean should be able to reference a bean of the same name in the parent context, for example to proxy it.
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>Currently, a reference to the same bean name will lead to a self reference. I'm not keen on changing this, as there might be valid use cases for such a configuration.
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>I quite like Damon's suggestion: introduce a "parent" attribute for the <ref> tag, as alternative to "bean" and "local". Such a reference explicity refers to a bean in the parent context rather than in the current one.
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>I've already implemented this: was straightforward to do, with RuntimeBeanReference having an optional "toParent" flag now.
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>As this is fully backward-compatible and a nice (though probably rarely used) enhancement, I don't mind including this in 1.0.3. Opinions?
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>Juergen
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