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Registering Entity Beans

Registering Entity Beans

Elastic Path Core Commerce uses the Spring bean factory to create entity beans when required. Out-of-the-box beans are defined in core's src/main/resources/spring/prototypes/prototypes.xml. To register entity beans, you add the bean definition to your extension project's Spring configuration as described by Plug-in Architecture. If you're overriding an existing bean definition, make sure the bean id is the same as the original and that the class points to your extension class.

Warning:

Be sure to set the bean's scope attribute to prototype.

For example, prototypes.xml contains the following definition for the product bean:

<bean id="product" scope="prototype" class="com.elasticpath.domain.catalog.impl.ProductImpl"/commerce-legacy/>

Suppose you override this class with com.extensions.domain.catalog.impl.ExtProductImpl. You just need to add the following bean definition to to your extension Spring configuration:

<bean id="product" scope="prototype" class="com.extensions.domain.catalog.impl.ExtProductImpl"/commerce-legacy/>
Note: Bean Definition Clutter

Continually adding bean definitions to a single extensions Spring configuration file can lead to clutter. By using the import mechanism, you can store your custom and override bean definitions in files within a directory structure that mirrors the out-of-the-box application directory structure.

For example, to override ep-core bean definitions in resources/spring/models/domainModel.xml and resources/spring/service/service.xml file, create extension Spring configuration files in the same locations as ep-core with corresponding names that have a prefix of ext- . Then import them into ep-core-plugin.xml as follows:

<import resource="classpath*:spring/models/ext-domainModel.xml"/commerce-legacy/>
<import resource="classpath*:spring/service/ext-service.xml"/commerce-legacy/>

Note that these files should only contain your custom and overriding bean definitions. Do not include any out-of-the-box bean definitions.