Spring Puzzlers #02: The Happy Traveler

12oct11

I really love traveling, and even more when I don’t know what my next destination will be. That’s one of my biggest passions, I have to admit it. If you also love traveling, you should consider using my TravelService for your next trip. Let me introduce you the second Spring Puzzler:

The TravelService will be our entry point. It has a method to print a destination picked by a DestinationPicker (shown below). Notice that the method is annotated with @Async to run it asynchronously in another thread:

public class TravelServiceImpl implements TravelService {
	private Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(TravelServiceImpl.class);
	
	private DestinationPicker destinationPicker;
	
	@Async
	public void printNextDestination() {
		logger.info("Running from thread: " + Thread.currentThread().getId());
		
		System.out.println("Your next holiday destination: " + 
							destinationPicker.getDestination());
	}

	public void setDestinationPicker(DestinationPicker destinationPicker) {
		this.destinationPicker = destinationPicker;
	}
}

This is the RandomDestinationPicker, which uses a really complex algorithm to choose the destination from a list of available destinations . It uses the id field (increased in every object creation) to determine the location:

public class RandomDestinationPicker implements DestinationPicker {
	
	private static int instances = 0;
	
	private int id;
	private List<String> availableDestinations;	
	
	public RandomDestinationPicker(List<String> availableDestinations) {
		this.availableDestinations = availableDestinations;
		id = instances++;
	}
	
	public String getDestination() {
		return availableDestinations.get(id % availableDestinations.size());
	}
}

The next XML file has the configuration for our Application Context:
- It defines a list of destinations (a list of strings)
- It defines the DestinationPicker injecting the list of available destination and setting the scope of the bean to ‘puzzle’.
- It defines the TravelService injecting the DestinationPicker.
- It enables the @Async annotation (task:annotation-driven)
- It defines a new scope called ‘puzzle’ which is a thread scope

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task"
	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
	xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
	xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/task http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task-3.0.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd">


	<bean id="travelService" class="com.sergialmar.springpuzzlers.sp02.TravelServiceImpl" 
							 p:destinationPicker-ref="destinationPicker"/>

	<bean id="destinationPicker" class="com.sergialmar.springpuzzlers.sp02.RandomDestinationPicker" 
								  scope="puzzle">
		<constructor-arg ref="destinationList"/>
	</bean>
								  
	<util:list id="destinationList">
		<value>San Francisco</value>
		<value>Kuala Lumpur</value>
		<value>Barcelona</value>
		<value>Mexico City</value>
		<value>Cape Town</value>
	</util:list>
	
	<task:annotation-driven/>

	<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomScopeConfigurer">
      <property name="scopes">
          <map>
              <entry key="puzzle">
                  <bean class="org.springframework.context.support.SimpleThreadScope"/>
              </entry>
          </map>
      </property>
  	</bean>
</beans>

The bootstrap class creates the application context and gets the TravelService bean, calling the printNextDestination method 4 times.

public class TravelBootstrap {

	public static void main(String... args) {
		ApplicationContext applicationContext = 
			new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("com/sergialmar/springpuzzlers/sp02/app-context.xml");
		
		TravelService travelService = 
			applicationContext.getBean(TravelService.class);
		
		travelService.printNextDestination();
		travelService.printNextDestination();
		travelService.printNextDestination();
		travelService.printNextDestination();
	}
}

Time to vote! Which of the following statements is right:

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