Spring autowiring by constructor

Spring autowiring by constructor is similar to autowiring by type but it is applied to constructor argument. If more than one bean property matches, then it throws fatal exception.

Below digram will make it clear:

For example:

I am taking example of autowire by “constructor” here.It will be almost same as Dependency injection via setter method with some changes in XML configuration file.

1.Country.java:

This is simple pojo class having some attributes so here country has name and object of Capital class.
Create Country.java under package org.arpit.java2blog.Copy following content into Country.java.

2.Capital.java

This is also simple pojo class having one attribute called “capitalName”.
Create Capital.java under package org.arpit.java2blog.java.Above Country class contains object of this class.Copy following content into Capital.java

3.BeanAutowiringByContructorMain.java

This class contains main function.Create BeanAutowiringByConstructorMain.java under package org.arpit.java2blog.Copy following content into BeanAutowiringByConstructorMain.java
You can note here that we have used ClassPathXmlApplicationContext for getting bean here.There are various ways for getting beans.In hello world example we have used XmlBeanFactory for getting beans.

4.ApplicationContext.xml

5.Run it

When you will run above application,you will get following as output.

What if two properties of class have same datatype:

Change ApplicationContext.xml as below:

In above xml, we have declared two capital beans,now how it will autowire.
Answer: It won’t.
When you run above program, it will give you below exception:

It will give you below exception.

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