how to programmatically register an already setup bean to spring context

Question

Hey,

I'm wondering how one can do that. Afaik there is BeanFactoryPostProcessor interface that let us use BeanDefinitionRegistry.registerBeanDefinition() method before beans within context are initialized. That method accepts only a class / definition. But usually one needs to register a bean that is already set with properties. Otherwise the bean definition registration itself is kinda useless. I don't want to set it up additionally after I get it from context then.

When using singleton it's ok, but for prototypes I'd have to set the bean up for each getBean() .

Answer 1

It turned out that the most preferable way of doing that was GenericBeanDefinition and GenericBeanDefinition.setPropertyValues(MutablePropertyValues propertyValues) and it's registering into an application context...