EzyFox Bean Introduction

EzyFox Bean is a library for bean managment and dependency injection. It can manage the both singleton objects and prototype objects.

1. Structure of EzyFox Bean

EzyBeanContext: a composite object, manage all properties, singletons and prototypes
Properties: EzyBeanContext will keep all properties and inject to singletons and prototypes
EzySingletonFactory: manage all singletons
EzyPrototypeFactory: manage all prototypes

EzyFox Bean also has many annotations and you can find out theme here.

2. Install EzyFox Bean

You can add to your dependency like this:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.tvd12</groupId>
    <artifactId>ezyfox-bean</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.8</version>
</dependency>

The latest version can be found in the Maven Central repository.

3. Properties

Currently, EzyFox Bean support .properties and yaml file. By default, it will read files in your classpath:

application.properties
application.yaml
application.yml

Let's say you have a application.properties like this:

book.name_pattern=[a-zA-Z\s]+

book.min_price=1000

You can create a data class and EzyFox Bean will bind the properties to it automatically. Example:

    @EzyPropertiesBean(prefix = "book")
    public class BookSetting {
        @Property("name_pattern")
        private String namePattern;
        @Property("min_price")
        private long minPrice;
    }

4. Singleton management

Bean initialization

EzyFox Bean will scan which packages that you provide and by default it will scan com.tvd12.ezyfox.boot package. It find which classes are annotated with @EzySingleton, @EzyConfigurationBefore, @EzyConfiguration, @EzyConfigurationAfter to create singleton objects. Example, you have BookRepository class like bellow, EzyFox Bean will scan and create singleton for it.

    @EzySingleton
    public class BookRepository {
        public void save(Book book) {
            System.out.println("saved book: " + book);
        }
    }

Bean binding

EzyFox Bean support binding vi constructor and @EzyAutoBind annotation, but we recommend you use constructor binding because you will don't need use setter method and make your class is immutable. Example:

    @EzySingleton
    @AllArgsConstructor
    public class BookService {
        private final BookSetting bookSetting;
        private final BookRepository bookRepository;
        public void saveBook(Book book) {
            if (!book.getName().matches(bookSetting.getNamePattern())) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("invalid book name");
            }
            bookRepository.save(book);
        }
    }

5. Prototype management

EzyFox Bean will create a prototype supplier for a class that's annotated by @EzyPrototype annotation, example:

    @Setter
    @EzyPrototype
    public class BookPriceCalculator {
        private Book book;
        @EzyProperty("book.discount")
        private int discount;
        public long calculate() {
            return book.getPrice() - discount;
        }
    }

4. Example

Now combine properties, singletons and prototypes we can create a EzyBeanContext and get bean (singleton and prototype) to use:

    public final class EzyFoxBeanExample {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
            final EzyBeanContext beanContext = EzyBeanContext.builder()
                .scan("com.tvd12.ezyfox.example.bean")
                .build();
            final BookController bookController =
                beanContext.getBeanCast(BookController.class);
            final Book book = new Book(1L, "EzyFox in action", 2000);
            bookController.saveBook(book);
            final BookPriceCalculator bookPriceCalculator =
                beanContext.getBeanCast(BookPriceCalculator.class);
            bookPriceCalculator.setBook(book);
            final long bookPrice = bookPriceCalculator.calculate();
            System.out.println("book price: " + bookPrice);
        }
    }

Introduce EzyFox Bean