got an exception in configuration file

[prasad chowdary]

hello experts,


i am trying to inject objects through idref tag i got an exception

config.xml

<?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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

<bean id="std" class="info.spring.test.Student">
<property name="name" value="sachin"></property>
<property name="roll_No" value="99"></property>
<property name="address1" ref="addr1"></property>
<property name="address2" >
<idref="addr2"/>
</property>
</bean>

<bean id="addr2" class="info.spring.test.Address" name="addr2_alias">
<property name="city" value="hyd"></property>
<property name="state" value="ap"></property>
</bean>

<bean id="addr1" class="info.spring.test.Address">
<property name="city" value="banglr"></property>
<property name="state" value="karnataka"></property>
</bean>
</beans>

Exception

Element type "idref" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>"

[Tapan Maru]

<idref bean="addr2"/>

Try out with the above code. Please share the resulets.

Thanks

[prasad chowdary]

Thanks Maru,
now, i got a new exception

Exception:

Failed to convert property value of type 'java.lang.String' to required type 'info.spring.test.Address' for property 'address2'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException:

[Mark Spritzler]

Why do you even want to use idref?

Why not just

<property name="address2" ref="add22"/>

or

<property name="address2">
    <ref bean="addr2/>
</property>

Thanks

Mark">

[prasad chowdary]

thanks mark,

i know thants work fine , why idref attribute is not working.

[Mark Spritzler]

prasad chowdary wrote:thanks mark,

i know thants work fine , why idref attribute is not working.

Maybe because it is really old and people don't use it anymore?

Mark