How to inject EntityManager via setter in spring

[Bobby Anderson]

I want to inject an entity manager into a spring bean using a setter but in my config I only have access to a object of type EntityManagerFactory

I want the following:

    
protected EntityManager entityManager;
public void setEntityManager( EntityManager entityManager ) {
	this.entityManager = entityManager;
}

In my spring config I get the entity manager factory from JNDI:

   
<jee:jndi-lookup id="entityManager" jndi-name="java:/myPU"/>

So when I want to inject that entityManager into my spring bean I use the following:

    
	<bean id="testDao" 
	   class="test.jpa.impl.TestDaoJpa" >
	   <property name="entityManager" ref="entityManager" />
	</bean>

Which calls the setter on my bean but I of course get an exception saying that I cannot set a type of EntityManger using a EntityManagerFactory type

[Mark Spritzler]

You need to inject the EntityManagerFactory, then in your methods call the getEntityManager() of the factory. This is needed because you can't create an EntityManager up front, with a Connection, and have your Repository hold on to it forever. This is bad resource holding. So it isn't possible for you to inject an EntityManager.

I hope that helps and makes sense. It is an extremely correct and best implementation to not allow you to inject an EntityManager.

Good Luck

Mark

[Billy Vandory]

Mark Spritzler wrote:You need to inject the EntityManagerFactory, then in your methods call the getEntityManager() of the factory. This is needed because you can't create an EntityManager up front, with a Connection, and have your Repository hold on to it forever. This is bad resource holding. So it isn't possible for you to inject an EntityManager.

I hope that helps and makes sense. It is an extremely correct and best implementation to not allow you to inject an EntityManager.

Good Luck

Mark

Hi Mark, I was under the impression that the EM injected by spring or via the @PersistenceContext is a proxy only. I'm concerned now because in my code I
inject the EM via the @PersistenceContext annotation, managed by spring. Can you clarify? Do I need to change my code to inject a factory and grab the EM from the factory instead?

thanks...

billworth