components.xml - Set of components

[walterjwhite]

Hi all,

I would like to configure a component that has several POJOs stored under a certain property.  Essentially, I'm creating a EmailRenderer with support for multiple email senders so you can send from email address 1 and then email address 2 simply by specifying the email address in the template.  In addition, it also supports selecting a locale-specific email template:


components.xml
<!--     configure the email senders     -->
     <email:email-renderer>
          <property name="emailSenders">
               <multiValuedProperty>
                    <email:email-sender email-address="${email.support.emailAddress}" password="${email.support.password}" host="${smtp.host}" port="${smtp.port}" ssl="true"/>
                    <email:email-sender email-address="${email.websiteEmail.emailAddress}" password="${email.websiteEmail.password}" host="${smtp.host}" port="${smtp.port}" ssl="true"/>
               </multiValuedProperty>
          </property>
     </email:email-renderer>


EmailRenderer
@AutoCreate
@Name("emailRenderer")
public class EmailRenderer
{
     public static final String DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_FILE_NAME = "default";
     @Logger
     private Log log;
     @In(create = true)
     private Renderer renderer;
     @In
     private Locale locale;
     private String emailDirectory;
     private Set<EmailSender> emailSenders;
...
}

Whenever I attempt to determine which email sender to use, the set containing the email senders at that time is null even though I appear to have it configured through components.xml.  I haven't seen any good examples of this, but how do I configure a property such as a set or collection?


Thanks,
Walter

[walterjwhite]

Ok so it turns out, I opened up my Seam book and found the answer: page 98

<!--     configure the email senders     -->
     <email:email-renderer>
          <property name="emailSenders">
               <value>#{supportEmailSender}</value>
               <value>#{websiteEmailEmailSender}</value>
          </property>
     </email:email-renderer>

     <component name="supportEmailSender" class="com.walterjwhite.seamCore.email.EmailSender">
          <property name="emailAddress">${email.support.emailAddress}</property>
          <property name="password">${email.support.password}</property>

          <property name="host">${smtp.host}</property>
          <property name="port">${smtp.port}</property>
          <property name="ssl">true</property>
     </component>
     <component name="websiteEmailEmailSender" class="com.walterjwhite.seamCore.email.EmailSender">
          <property name="emailAddress">${email.websiteEmail.emailAddress}</property>
          <property name="password">${email.websiteEmail.password}</property>

          <property name="host">${smtp.host}</property>
          <property name="port">${smtp.port}</property>
          <property name="ssl">true</property>
     </component>



Walter