[Springframework-developer] BeanDefinition parsing and lost information

[Darren D. <da...@da...>]

hi,

I'm trying to customise the parsing of BeanDefinitions into a simple
placeholder registry (for the beandoc tool to cope with namespace support).

The registry is simple enough, but I'm struggling to see a reasonable way to
hook into the process in order to maintain the value of <description> tags
(if defined) and the name of the file or resource that the bean was defined
in.  Ideally, I need to tag each BeanDefinition with this data.

The BeanDefinition.getResourceDescription method doesn't quite work for the
resource name as it's a bit arbitrary and is not guaranteed to be set by
custom namespacehandlers either.  In fact the Spring aop and tx handlers
don't set it either.

Any pointers appreciated :)


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Darren Davison
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