How Spring implements Singleton Beans

In the next example, the dataSource method is a bean that is called twice. However, we know that a bean is a singleton by default in Spring (see the link below):

Spring Configuration

eidher ・ Sep 27 '20 ・ 2 min read

#spring #java #dependencyinjection #bean

@Configuration
public class AppConfig {

    @Bean
    public DataSource dataSource() {
        return new JdbcDataSource();
    }

    @Bean
    public DevRepository devRepository() {
        JdbcDevRepository repository = new JdbcDevRepository(dataSource);
        repository.setDataSource(dataSource());
        return repository;
    }

    @Bean
    public ProdRepository prodRepository() {
        JdbcProdRepository repository = new JdbcProdRepository();
        repository.setDataSource(dataSource());
        return repository;
    }
}

At startup time, a subclass is created using cglib (Code Generation Library). It only calls super in the first invocation of the bean, then one instance is cached by the application context and the child class is the entry point.

@Configuration
public class AppConfig$$EnhancerByCGLIB$ extends AppConfig{
...
}

However, cglib does not support classes with constructors (autowired constructors are possible since Spring 4.3. See Spring Injection Types), so Spring now uses objenesis to overcome this.

Singleton Pattern

eidher ・ Oct 1 '20 ・ 1 min read

#creational #designpattern #pattern #java