Spring: PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer incrementing integer infix property name

Question

I'm trying to use PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer to read properties of this type:

server.0.name=aaa
server.0.port=9999
server.1.name=bbb
server.1.port=9998
...
server.n.name=serverName
server.n.port=serverPort

Is there any way to inject it as a list of servers? List<Server> servers; Where the Server is some bean.

Answer 1

The reason you can not do this is that you are trying to create new Server Instances. The PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer is afaik not able to create beans. But you can set the property in the beans definition

<bean id="server" class="ParentClass">
    <property name="servers">
        <list>
            <bean class="Server">
                <property name="name" value="aaa"/>
                <property name="port" value="123"/>
            </bean>
            ...
            more beans
            ...
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>