Multiple PostConstruct methods?

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Luis Sep picture Luis Sep · Mar 14, 2014 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

It says in Java's documentation page for PostConstruct that

Only one method can be annotated with this annotation

But I just tried annotating three methods of a standalone application with PostConstruct. No compile errors, and all three of them are invoked and executed smoothly.

So what am I missing? In what kind of class can and cannot exist multiple PostConstruct annotations?

Answer

Wang Jun picture Wang Jun · Jul 6, 2016

Yes, it's seem Spring doesn't follow this restriction. I have found code to process this annotation which is InitDestroyAnnotationBeanPostProcessor, and the specific method:

public void invokeInitMethods(Object target, String beanName) throws Throwable {
        Collection<LifecycleElement> initMethodsToIterate =
                (this.checkedInitMethods != null ? this.checkedInitMethods : this.initMethods);
        if (!initMethodsToIterate.isEmpty()) {
            boolean debug = logger.isDebugEnabled();
            for (LifecycleElement element : initMethodsToIterate) {
                if (debug) {
                    logger.debug("Invoking init method on bean '" + beanName + "': " + element.getMethod());
                }
                element.invoke(target);
            }
        }
    }

So, spring support multi PostConstruct

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