Google Collections is deprecated in favor of Guava , so I will answer about Guava.
I will use this Bean class:
public class Bean{
private Multimap<String, String> map;
public void setMap(Multimap<String, String> map){
this.map = map;
}
}
The only Guava Multimap factory method you can easily connect to (with XML only) is the method Multimaps.forMap(existingMap). Here's the XML:
<bean class="foo.bar.Bean">
<property name="map">
<bean class="com.google.common.collect.Multimaps"
factory-method="forMap">
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="java.util.HashMap" />
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
Supplier Multimaps, Java-. Supplier, Spring FactoryBean:
public class SupplierFactoryBean<T> extends AbstractFactoryBean<Supplier<T>>{
private final Class<T> type;
private final Supplier<T> supplier;
public SupplierFactoryBean(final Class<T> type){
this.type = type;
this.supplier = new Supplier<T>(){
@Override
public T get(){
try{
return type.newInstance();
} catch(final Exception e){
throw new IllegalStateException(e);
}
}
};
}
@Override
public Class<?> getObjectType(){ return type; }
@Override
protected Supplier<T> createInstance() throws Exception{
return supplier;
}
}
( FactoryBean, Spring . , .)
. :
<bean class="foo.bar.Bean">
<property name="map">
<bean class="com.google.common.collect.Multimaps"
factory-method="newSetMultimap">
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="java.util.HashMap" />
</constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="foo.bar.SupplierFactoryBean">
<constructor-arg value="java.util.TreeSet" />
</bean>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
factory. Spring: 3.3.2.2 factory p >