A.3. dispatcher-spring.xml

The files of this type define configuration of an additional Spring Framework container for client blocks containing Spring MVC controllers.

The additional container for controllers is created with the main container (configured by spring.xml files) as its parent. Therefore, the beans of the controllers container can use the beans of the main container, while the beans of the main container cannot "see" the beans of the controllers container.

A set of dispatcher-spring.xml files, including the ones defined in base projects, is declared in the cuba.dispatcherSpringContextConfig application property. File order is important, because each subsequent file can override bean configurations defined by the previous files.

The platform web and portal modules already contain such configuration files: cuba-dispatcher-spring.xml and cuba-portal-dispatcher-spring.xml respectively. The former supports the work of controllers for files uploading and downloading. The latter supports the REST API controllers.

If you have created Spring MVC controllers in your project (for example, in the web module), add the following configuration:

  • Assuming that your controllers are located inside the com.company.sample.web.controller package, create the modules/web/src/dispatcher-config.xml file:

    <?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"
       xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.2.xsd">

    <context:annotation-config/>

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.company.sample.web.controller"/>

</beans>

  • Include the file into the cuba.dispatcherSpringContextConfig application property in the modules/web/src/web-app.properties file:

    cuba.dispatcherSpringContextConfig = cuba-dispatcher-spring.xml dispatcher-spring.xml