Scalext and Spring

[eoliphan]

Hi again, I'm using the spring framework as well in my app, and have realized that It may be difficult to have a Scalext @Remotable class/method also say get @Autowired correctly by spring. I'm using the apporach of creating a Global in play, and overriding getControllerInstance. I poked around in the code and you're of course doing a direct loadClass().

I'm thinking about doing some forking and hacking, but before I start do you have any suggestions in terms of an approach? I haven't had to do it in while, but I think one 'quick and dirty' approach would be to use Spring's load time weaving option, but this seems messier than I'd like lol

[Rovak]

I have no experience with Spring but the solution should be framework independent. Creating something similar as getControllerInstance looks like the best option.

My suggestion would be to create a trait which you can apply to the Global object. Whenever a class has to be loaded with the ApiFactory then it first checks if the trait is applied to the Global object, if not then fallback to the default classloader.

trait ScalextApiFactory {
  def loadApiClass(className: String): Class[_]
}

object Global extends GlobalSettings with ScalextApiFactory {
  def loadApiClass(className: String) = {
    // Custom classloader with optional dependency injection, @Autowire, etc...
  }
}

I have no idea if this is possible with Spring or the load time weaving option, would this work with your project?

[eoliphan]

SOmething like this might work, I'm going to play around with it and see.

[Rovak]

Any news on this or anything i can do to help?

[eoliphan]

Not yet, I actually went with the javascript routes for the time being, on
a time crunch, but I'm going to revisit it as soon as I'm done, probably
next week some time

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Roy van Kaathoven <[email protected]

wrote:

Any news on this or anyhing i can do to help?

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[Rovak]

I'm gonna work on a Google Guice implementation using this Guice Module, i think it should also work with Spring with only a few modifications.