Spring - How do you set Enum keys in a Map with annotations

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I've an Enum class

public enum MyEnum{
    ABC;
}

than my 'Mick' class has this property

private Map<MyEnum, OtherObj> myMap;

I've this spring xml configuration.

<util:map id="myMap">
    <entry key="ABC" value-ref="myObj" />
</util:map>

<bean id="mick" class="com.x.Mick">
    <property name="myMap" ref="myMap" />
</bean>

and this is fine.
I'd like to replace this xml configuration with Spring annotations.
Do you have any idea on how to autowire the map?

The problem here is that if I switch from xml config to the @Autowired annotation (on the myMap attribute of the Mick class) Spring is throwing this exception

nested exception is org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Key type [class com.MyEnum] of map [java.util.Map] must be assignable to [java.lang.String]

Spring is no more able to recognize the string ABC as a MyEnum.ABC object.
Any idea?

Thanks

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7 Answers

Should be:

public class Mick {

  private Map<MyEnum, OtherObj> myMap;

  @Autowired
  public void setMyMap(Map<MyEnum, OtherObj> myMap) {
    this.myMap = myMap;
  }
}

Have a look at http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/beans.html#beans-annotation-config

Updated

The problem is that according to the util schema, you cannot specify the key or value types. You can however to implement a MapFactoryBean of your own (just inherit from org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MapFactoryBean). One ceveat - notice that the generic definition (even thought erased in runtime) doesn't get in the way.

user_828040

You just need to use concrete Map class as HashMap and not abstract or interface:

public class Mick {

  private HashMap<MyEnum, OtherObj> myMap;

  @Autowired
  public void setMyMap(HashMap<MyEnum, OtherObj> myMap) {
    this.myMap = myMap;
  }
}


public class AppConfig
{
    @Bean
    public HashMap<MyEnum, OtherObj> myMap() { .. }
}
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