Looks for a {@link #CONTEXT_CLASS_PARAM "contextClass"} parameter
* at the web.xml context-param level to specify the context
* class type, falling back to the default of
* {@link org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext}
* if not found. With the default ContextLoader implementation, any context class
* specified needs to implement the ConfigurableWebApplicationContext interface.
*
*
Processes a {@link #CONFIG_LOCATION_PARAM "contextConfigLocation"} * context-param and passes its value to the context instance, parsing it into * potentially multiple file paths which can be separated by any number of * commas and spaces, e.g. "WEB-INF/applicationContext1.xml, * WEB-INF/applicationContext2.xml". Ant-style path patterns are supported as well, * e.g. "WEB-INF/*Context.xml,WEB-INF/spring*.xml" or "WEB-INF/**/*Context.xml". * If not explicitly specified, the context implementation is supposed to use a * default location (with XmlWebApplicationContext: "/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml"). * *
Note: In case of multiple config locations, later bean definitions will * override ones defined in previously loaded files, at least when using one of * Spring's default ApplicationContext implementations. This can be leveraged * to deliberately override certain bean definitions via an extra XML file. * *
Above and beyond loading the root application context, this class
* can optionally load or obtain and hook up a shared parent context to
* the root application context. See the
* {@link #loadParentContext(ServletContext)} method for more information.
*
* @author Juergen Hoeller
* @author Colin Sampaleanu
* @author Sam Brannen
* @since 17.02.2003
* @see ContextLoaderListener
* @see ContextLoaderServlet
* @see ConfigurableWebApplicationContext
* @see org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext
*/
public class ContextLoader {
/**
* Config param for the root WebApplicationContext implementation class to
* use: "contextClass"
*/
public static final String CONTEXT_CLASS_PARAM = "contextClass";
/**
* Name of servlet context parameter (i.e., "contextConfigLocation")
* that can specify the config location for the root context, falling back
* to the implementation's default otherwise.
* @see org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext#DEFAULT_CONFIG_LOCATION
*/
public static final String CONFIG_LOCATION_PARAM = "contextConfigLocation";
/**
* Optional servlet context parameter (i.e., "locatorFactorySelector")
* used only when obtaining a parent context using the default implementation
* of {@link #loadParentContext(ServletContext servletContext)}.
* Specifies the 'selector' used in the
* {@link ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator#getInstance(String selector)}
* method call, which is used to obtain the BeanFactoryLocator instance from
* which the parent context is obtained.
*
The default is classpath*:beanRefContext.xml,
* matching the default applied for the
* {@link ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator#getInstance()} method.
* Supplying the "parentContextKey" parameter is sufficient in this case.
*/
public static final String LOCATOR_FACTORY_SELECTOR_PARAM = "locatorFactorySelector";
/**
* Optional servlet context parameter (i.e., "parentContextKey")
* used only when obtaining a parent context using the default implementation
* of {@link #loadParentContext(ServletContext servletContext)}.
* Specifies the 'factoryKey' used in the
* {@link BeanFactoryLocator#useBeanFactory(String factoryKey)} method call,
* obtaining the parent application context from the BeanFactoryLocator instance.
*
Supplying this "parentContextKey" parameter is sufficient when relying
* on the default classpath*:beanRefContext.xml selector for
* candidate factory references.
*/
public static final String LOCATOR_FACTORY_KEY_PARAM = "parentContextKey";
/**
* Name of the class path resource (relative to the ContextLoader class)
* that defines ContextLoader's default strategy names.
*/
private static final String DEFAULT_STRATEGIES_PATH = "ContextLoader.properties";
private static final Properties defaultStrategies;
static {
// Load default strategy implementations from properties file.
// This is currently strictly internal and not meant to be customized
// by application developers.
try {
ClassPathResource resource = new ClassPathResource(DEFAULT_STRATEGIES_PATH, ContextLoader.class);
defaultStrategies = PropertiesLoaderUtils.loadProperties(resource);
}
catch (IOException ex) {
throw new IllegalStateException("Could not load 'ContextLoader.properties': " + ex.getMessage());
}
}
private static final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(ContextLoader.class);
/**
* Map from (thread context) ClassLoader to WebApplicationContext.
* Often just holding one reference - if the ContextLoader class is
* deployed in the web app ClassLoader itself!
*/
private static final Map currentContextPerThread = CollectionFactory.createConcurrentMapIfPossible(1);
/**
* The root WebApplicationContext instance that this loader manages.
*/
private WebApplicationContext context;
/**
* Holds BeanFactoryReference when loading parent factory via
* ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.
*/
private BeanFactoryReference parentContextRef;
/**
* Initialize Spring's web application context for the given servlet context,
* according to the "{@link #CONTEXT_CLASS_PARAM contextClass}" and
* "{@link #CONFIG_LOCATION_PARAM contextConfigLocation}" context-params.
* @param servletContext current servlet context
* @return the new WebApplicationContext
* @throws IllegalStateException if there is already a root application context present
* @throws BeansException if the context failed to initialize
* @see #CONTEXT_CLASS_PARAM
* @see #CONFIG_LOCATION_PARAM
*/
public WebApplicationContext initWebApplicationContext(ServletContext servletContext)
throws IllegalStateException, BeansException {
if (servletContext.getAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE) != null) {
throw new IllegalStateException(
"Cannot initialize context because there is already a root application context present - " +
"check whether you have multiple ContextLoader* definitions in your web.xml!");
}
servletContext.log("Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext");
if (logger.isInfoEnabled()) {
logger.info("Root WebApplicationContext: initialization started");
}
long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
try {
// Determine parent for root web application context, if any.
ApplicationContext parent = loadParentContext(servletContext);
// Store context in local instance variable, to guarantee that
// it is available on ServletContext shutdown.
this.context = createWebApplicationContext(servletContext, parent);
servletContext.setAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE, this.context);
currentContextPerThread.put(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(), this.context);
if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
logger.debug("Published root WebApplicationContext as ServletContext attribute with name [" +
WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE + "]");
}
if (logger.isInfoEnabled()) {
long elapsedTime = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime;
logger.info("Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in " + elapsedTime + " ms");
}
return this.context;
}
catch (RuntimeException ex) {
logger.error("Context initialization failed", ex);
servletContext.setAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE, ex);
throw ex;
}
catch (Error err) {
logger.error("Context initialization failed", err);
servletContext.setAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE, err);
throw err;
}
}
/**
* Instantiate the root WebApplicationContext for this loader, either the
* default context class or a custom context class if specified.
*
This implementation expects custom contexts to implement the * {@link ConfigurableWebApplicationContext} interface. * Can be overridden in subclasses. *
In addition, {@link #customizeContext} gets called prior to refreshing the
* context, allowing subclasses to perform custom modifications to the context.
* @param servletContext current servlet context
* @param parent the parent ApplicationContext to use, or null if none
* @return the root WebApplicationContext
* @throws BeansException if the context couldn't be initialized
* @see ConfigurableWebApplicationContext
*/
protected WebApplicationContext createWebApplicationContext(
ServletContext servletContext, ApplicationContext parent) throws BeansException {
Class contextClass = determineContextClass(servletContext);
if (!ConfigurableWebApplicationContext.class.isAssignableFrom(contextClass)) {
throw new ApplicationContextException("Custom context class [" + contextClass.getName() +
"] is not of type [" + ConfigurableWebApplicationContext.class.getName() + "]");
}
ConfigurableWebApplicationContext wac =
(ConfigurableWebApplicationContext) BeanUtils.instantiateClass(contextClass);
wac.setParent(parent);
wac.setServletContext(servletContext);
wac.setConfigLocation(servletContext.getInitParameter(CONFIG_LOCATION_PARAM));
customizeContext(servletContext, wac);
wac.refresh();
return wac;
}
/**
* Return the WebApplicationContext implementation class to use, either the
* default XmlWebApplicationContext or a custom context class if specified.
* @param servletContext current servlet context
* @return the WebApplicationContext implementation class to use
* @throws ApplicationContextException if the context class couldn't be loaded
* @see #CONTEXT_CLASS_PARAM
* @see org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext
*/
protected Class determineContextClass(ServletContext servletContext) throws ApplicationContextException {
String contextClassName = servletContext.getInitParameter(CONTEXT_CLASS_PARAM);
if (contextClassName != null) {
try {
return ClassUtils.forName(contextClassName);
}
catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
throw new ApplicationContextException(
"Failed to load custom context class [" + contextClassName + "]", ex);
}
}
else {
contextClassName = defaultStrategies.getProperty(WebApplicationContext.class.getName());
try {
return ClassUtils.forName(contextClassName, ContextLoader.class.getClassLoader());
}
catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
throw new ApplicationContextException(
"Failed to load default context class [" + contextClassName + "]", ex);
}
}
}
/**
* Customize the {@link ConfigurableWebApplicationContext} created by this
* ContextLoader after config locations have been supplied to the context
* but before the context is refreshed.
*
The default implementation is empty but can be overridden in subclasses * to customize the application context. * @param servletContext the current servlet context * @param applicationContext the newly created application context * @see #createWebApplicationContext(ServletContext, ApplicationContext) */ protected void customizeContext( ServletContext servletContext, ConfigurableWebApplicationContext applicationContext) { } /** * Template method with default implementation (which may be overridden by a * subclass), to load or obtain an ApplicationContext instance which will be * used as the parent context of the root WebApplicationContext. If the * return value from the method is null, no parent context is set. *
The main reason to load a parent context here is to allow multiple root * web application contexts to all be children of a shared EAR context, or * alternately to also share the same parent context that is visible to * EJBs. For pure web applications, there is usually no need to worry about * having a parent context to the root web application context. *
The default implementation uses
* {@link org.springframework.context.access.ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator},
* configured via {@link #LOCATOR_FACTORY_SELECTOR_PARAM} and
* {@link #LOCATOR_FACTORY_KEY_PARAM}, to load a parent context
* which will be shared by all other users of ContextsingletonBeanFactoryLocator
* which also use the same configuration parameters.
* @param servletContext current servlet context
* @return the parent application context, or null if none
* @throws BeansException if the context couldn't be initialized
* @see org.springframework.context.access.ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator
*/
protected ApplicationContext loadParentContext(ServletContext servletContext)
throws BeansException {
ApplicationContext parentContext = null;
String locatorFactorySelector = servletContext.getInitParameter(LOCATOR_FACTORY_SELECTOR_PARAM);
String parentContextKey = servletContext.getInitParameter(LOCATOR_FACTORY_KEY_PARAM);
if (parentContextKey != null) {
// locatorFactorySelector may be null, indicating the default "classpath*:beanRefContext.xml"
BeanFactoryLocator locator = ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance(locatorFactorySelector);
if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
logger.debug("Getting parent context definition: using parent context key of '" +
parentContextKey + "' with BeanFactoryLocator");
}
this.parentContextRef = locator.useBeanFactory(parentContextKey);
parentContext = (ApplicationContext) this.parentContextRef.getFactory();
}
return parentContext;
}
/**
* Close Spring's web application context for the given servlet context. If
* the default {@link #loadParentContext(ServletContext)} implementation,
* which uses ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator, has loaded any shared
* parent context, release one reference to that shared parent context.
*
If overriding {@link #loadParentContext(ServletContext)}, you may have
* to override this method as well.
* @param servletContext the ServletContext that the WebApplicationContext runs in
*/
public void closeWebApplicationContext(ServletContext servletContext) {
servletContext.log("Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext");
try {
if (this.context instanceof ConfigurableWebApplicationContext) {
((ConfigurableWebApplicationContext) this.context).close();
}
}
finally {
currentContextPerThread.remove(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
servletContext.removeAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE);
if (this.parentContextRef != null) {
this.parentContextRef.release();
}
}
}
/**
* Obtain the Spring root web application context for the current thread
* (i.e. for the current thread's context ClassLoader, which needs to be
* the web application's ClassLoader).
* @return the current root web application context, or null
* if none found
* @see org.springframework.web.context.support.SpringBeanAutowiringSupport
*/
public static WebApplicationContext getCurrentWebApplicationContext() {
return (WebApplicationContext) currentContextPerThread.get(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
}
}