Spring代码分析一:加载与初始化

 

一般的Web项目都会在web.xml中加入Spring监听器,内容如下:

<listener> 
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> 
</listener>

<context-param> 
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> 
        <param-value>classpath*:applicationContext-struts.xml,classpath*:spring/applicationContext.xml</param-value> 
</context-param>

我们的问题是,Spring是何时以及如何加载我们的配置文件来初始化Bean工厂的,带着这些问题,我们展开研究:

我们先来看看web.xml中配置的监听器的类,来回答我们的问题,Spring是何时来加载我们的配置文件的:

org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener

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它继承了javax.servlet.ServletContextListener接口。

ServletContextListener是J2EE Servlet API中的一个标准接口,

它能够监听ServletContext对象的生命周期,实际上就是监听Web应用的生命周期。

当Servlet容器启动或终止Web应用时,会触发ServletContextEvent事件,该事件由ServletContextListener来处理。

 

这里面有两个方法我们比较感兴趣:

/** 
 * Create the ContextLoader to use. Can be overridden in subclasses. 
 * @return the new ContextLoader 
 */
protected ContextLoader createContextLoader() { 
      return new ContextLoader(); 
}

这个方法构造一个默认的ContextLoader,ContextLoader可以理解为Spring上下文的加载器。之所以这样去定义这样一个类,是为了开发人员进行重写此方法来使用一个自定义的Spring上下文的加载器。

/** 
 * Initialize the root web application context. 
 */ 
public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent event) { 
     this.contextLoader = createContextLoader(); 
     this.contextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(event.getServletContext()); 
}

这个方法很简单,仅仅只是调用了createContextLoader()构造了ContextLoader,并调用其初始化方法。

由此,我们可以得出结论,Spring是在Web项目启动时,通过ServletContextListener机制,来加载以及初始化Spring上下文的。

 

下面,我们好好研究一下Spring是如何加载其上下文的:

我们先定位ContextLoader类。

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看看此类的initWebApplicationContext()方法(省略了不重要的语句)

/** 
 * Initialize Spring's web application context for the given servlet context, 
 * according to the "{@link #CONTEXT_CLASS_PARAM contextClass}" and 
 * "{@link #CONFIG_LOCATION_PARAM contextConfigLocation}" context-params. 
 * @param servletContext current servlet context 
 * @return the new WebApplicationContext 
 * @throws IllegalStateException if there is already a root application context present 
 * @throws BeansException if the context failed to initialize 
 * @see #CONTEXT_CLASS_PARAM 
 * @see #CONFIG_LOCATION_PARAM 
 */ 
public WebApplicationContext initWebApplicationContext(ServletContext servletContext) 
        throws IllegalStateException, BeansException {
    if (servletContext.getAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE) != null) { 
            throw new IllegalStateException( 
                    "Cannot initialize context because there is already a root application context present - " + 
                    "check whether you have multiple ContextLoader* definitions in your web.xml!"); 
    }
    try { 
        // Determine parent for root web application context, if any. 
        ApplicationContext parent = loadParentContext(servletContext);

        // Store context in local instance variable, to guarantee that 
        // it is available on ServletContext shutdown. 
        this.context = createWebApplicationContext(servletContext, parent); 
        servletContext.setAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE, this.context); 
        currentContextPerThread.put(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(), this.context);

        return this.context; 
    } catch (RuntimeException ex) { 
        logger.error("Context initialization failed", ex); 
        servletContext.setAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE, ex); 
        throw ex; 
    } catch (Error err) { 
        logger.error("Context initialization failed", err); 
        servletContext.setAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE, err); 
        throw err; 
    } 
}

其中的有两句比较重要,我们来看看:

ApplicationContext parent = loadParentContext(servletContext);

这个方法的用途主要是用来解决Spring共享环境的,即,如果我们有多个WAR包部署在同一个服务器上,而且这些WAR都共享某一套业务逻辑层。如何共享一套业务逻辑包配置而不要每个WAR都单独配置,这时我们就可能需要Spring的共享环境了。

protected ApplicationContext loadParentContext(ServletContext servletContext) throws BeansException {
    ApplicationContext parentContext = null;
    // 从web.xml中读取父工厂的配置文件,默认为:"classpath*:beanRefContext.xml" 
    String locatorFactorySelector = servletContext.getInitParameter(LOCATOR_FACTORY_SELECTOR_PARAM);

    // 从web.xml中读取父类工厂的名称 
    String parentContextKey = servletContext.getInitParameter(LOCATOR_FACTORY_KEY_PARAM);

    if (parentContextKey != null) { 
        // locatorFactorySelector may be null, indicating the default "classpath*:beanRefContext.xml" 
        BeanFactoryLocator locator = ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance(locatorFactorySelector); 
        this.parentContextRef = locator.useBeanFactory(parentContextKey); 
        parentContext = (ApplicationContext) this.parentContextRef.getFactory(); 
    }

    return parentContext; 
}

现在我们引入BeanFactoryLocator,它是Spring配置文件的一个定位器,Spring官方给它的定义是用来查找,使用和释放一个BeanFactory或其子类的接口。下面我们看看此图:

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ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance(locatorFactorySelector);

是根据参数locatorFactorySelector去一个单例工厂中去拿一个对应的BeanFactoryLocator,也即,如果工厂中没有对应于locatorFactorySelector的BeanFactoryLocator对象,那就返回一个新的BeanFactoryLocator实例(这里是ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator的实例),否则,就从工厂里取现有的BeanFactoryLocator对象。

ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator里维护了一个静态的Map对象instances,每次需要新增BeanFactoryLocator实例时都会更新这个Map对象,这个Map对象是以配置文件名为KEY,BeanFactoryLocator对象为值。原因很简单,就是希望同一个配置文件只被初始化一次。

如果没有在web.xml中定义locatorFactorySelector这个参数,父环境的配置文件默认使用:"classpath*:beanRefContext.xml"

 

this.parentContextRef = locator.useBeanFactory(parentContextKey);

此方法定义在SingletonBeanFactoryLocator类中,同样是一个单例工厂模式,判断传入的参数parentContextKey对应的BeanFactory是否有被初始化,经过上面的ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance(locatorFactorySelector)指定Spring父环境配置文件,这个方法判断指定的父环境是否被初始化,如果有则返回,没有就进行初始化。看看此方法的实现:

public BeanFactoryReference useBeanFactory(String factoryKey) throws BeansException { 
    synchronized (this.bfgInstancesByKey) { 
        BeanFactoryGroup bfg = (BeanFactoryGroup) this.bfgInstancesByKey.get(this.resourceLocation);

        if (bfg != null) { 
            bfg.refCount++; 
        } else { 
            // Create the BeanFactory but don't initialize it. 
            BeanFactory groupContext = createDefinition(this.resourceLocation, factoryKey);

            // Record its existence now, before instantiating any singletons. 
            bfg = new BeanFactoryGroup(); 
            bfg.definition = groupContext; 
            bfg.refCount = 1; 
            this.bfgInstancesByKey.put(this.resourceLocation, bfg); 
            this.bfgInstancesByObj.put(groupContext, bfg);

            // Now initialize the BeanFactory. This may cause a re-entrant invocation 
            // of this method, but since we've already added the BeanFactory to our 
            // mappings, the next time it will be found and simply have its 
            // reference count incremented. 
            try { 
                initializeDefinition(groupContext); 
            } catch (BeansException ex) { 
                this.bfgInstancesByKey.remove(this.resourceLocation); 
                this.bfgInstancesByObj.remove(groupContext); 
                throw new BootstrapException("Unable to initialize group definition. " + 
                    "Group resource name [" + this.resourceLocation + "], factory key [" + factoryKey + "]", ex); 
            } 
        }

        try { 
            BeanFactory beanFactory = null; 
            if (factoryKey != null) { 
                beanFactory = (BeanFactory) bfg.definition.getBean(factoryKey, BeanFactory.class); 
            } else if (bfg.definition instanceof ListableBeanFactory) { 
                beanFactory = (BeanFactory) BeanFactoryUtils.beanOfType((ListableBeanFactory) bfg.definition, BeanFactory.class); 
            } else { 
                throw new IllegalStateException( 
                    "Factory key is null, and underlying factory is not a ListableBeanFactory: " + bfg.definition); 
            } 
            return new CountingBeanFactoryReference(beanFactory, bfg.definition); 
         } catch (BeansException ex) { 
             throw new BootstrapException("Unable to return specified BeanFactory instance: factory key [" + 
                    factoryKey + "], from group with resource name [" + this.resourceLocation + "]", ex); 
         }

    } 
}

此方法分为两作了两件事,

第一,初始化上下文,主意这里初始化的是从web.xml配置参数里的Spring配置文件,也是上面讲loadParentContext方法里的

BeanFactoryLocator locator = ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance(locatorFactorySelector);

这句指定的参数。这里初始化的是这个配置文件所有Bean。我们指定的factoryKey对应的Bean也是其中之一。

 

第二,从已经初始化的Spring上下文环境中获取Spring父环境。

<beans>  
     <bean id="factoryBeanId" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext">  
         <constructor-arg>  
                <list>  
                     <value>sharebean.xml</value>  
                </list>  
         </constructor-arg>  
     </bean> 
     <bean id="factoryBeanId2" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext">  
         <constructor-arg>  
                <list>  
                     <value>sharebean2.xml</value>  
                </list>  
         </constructor-arg>  
     </bean> 
</beans>
<!—========================= web.xml ========================= -->  
<context-param>  
        <param-name>locatorFactorySelector</param-name>  
        <param-value>beanRefFactory.xml</param-value>  
</context-param>  

<context-param>  
        <param-name>parentContextKey</param-name>  
        <param-value>factoryBeanId</param-value>  
</context-param> 

这个一个典型的构造父环境的配置,web项目在启动的时候就会发现里面有Spring父环境的配置,那么Spring首先就会生成一个对应的配置文件为beanRefFactory.xml的BeanFactory(web.xml中的locatorFactorySelector参数指定),同时Spring在解析的时候,会发现factoryBeanId的配置同样为BeanFacotry(beanRefFactory.xml中factoryBeanId对应的Bean),所以Spring在拿父环境时就会写成:

beanFactory = (BeanFactory) bfg.definition.getBean(factoryKey, BeanFactory.class);

 

方法实现里引入了BeanFactoryGroup类。类的结构很简单

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refCount:用来记录实例被外部引用的记数,当调用locator.useBeanFactory(parentContextKey)方法时,引用数就会加1,当调用CountingBeanFactoryReference#release方法时,引用数就会减1,当它变成0时,Spring就会释放掉它占用的内存,同时也会销毁掉它definition变量引用的BeanFactory。下次再调用locator.useBeanFactory(parentContextKey)就会重新初始化BeanFactory。说到release,请同学们参考ContextLoader中如下的两条语句:

// 在调用CountingBeanFactoryReference#release后,即使对象已经销毁,这个Map仍然可以返回locator对象。

BeanFactoryLocator locator = ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance(locatorFactorySelector);

// 如果对象已经销毁,再调用此方法会再一次初始化BeanFactory
this.parentContextRef = locator.useBeanFactory(parentContextKey);

 

bfgInstancesByKey:一个Map对象,以配置文件名为Key,配置文件解析后生成的BeanFactory构成的BeanFactoryGroup为值。

bfgInstancesByObj:一个Map对象,以BeanFactoryGroup.definitiion为Key,以BeanFactoryGroup为值。这个对象主要还是在CountingBeanFactoryReference#release时使用。

 

 

下面,我看再看看另一个地方:

if (parentContextKey != null) { 
      // locatorFactorySelector may be null, indicating the default "classpath*:beanRefContext.xml" 
      BeanFactoryLocator locator = ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance(locatorFactorySelector); 
      this.parentContextRef = locator.useBeanFactory(parentContextKey); 
      parentContext = (ApplicationContext) this.parentContextRef.getFactory(); 
}
BeanFactoryLocator locator = ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance(locatorFactorySelector); 

上面这句仅仅是做了如下工作:

BeanFactoryLocator bfl = (BeanFactoryLocator) instances.get(resourceLocation); 
if (bfl == null) {
       // 仅仅只是设置了ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator里的resourceLocation属性的值,并没有初始化工厂。 
        bfl = new ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator(resourceLocation); 
       instances.put(resourceLocation, bfl); 
}

而我们使用工厂模式的时候,一般是把对象初始化好了,再给外部使用,为什么Spring这里要多此一举,在调用getInstance这后还要去调用useBeanFactory来初始化父环境?为什么Spring开发者不写成如下:

BeanFactoryLocator bfl = (BeanFactoryLocator) instances.get(resourceLocation); 
if (bfl == null) { 
        bfl = new ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator(resourceLocation);
        // 下面这句可能换成 initBeanFactory 类似语句,这里只是打个比方
         bfl.useBeanFactory(parentContextKey); 
        instances.put(resourceLocation, bfl); 
}

本来我认为这个写法是必须的,后来想想也不是,不过这里体现了Spring的灵活设计。如果按排上面的方法进行改造有几点不妥,1,每次都会初始化,开销比较大,可能有需求是需要延迟初始化的。2,每次都需要初始化都需要传入两个参数,分别为:配置文件名与父工厂名,3,类职责混乱,比如一个配置文件中可能定义了多个父环境的Bean,采用Spring这种方法是很清晰的:

// 返回BeanFactoryLocator方便定位某个配置文件。
BeanFactoryLocator locator = ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance(“classpath*: parentBeanFactory.xml”); 
parentContextRef1 = locator.useBeanFactory("parent1Key");
parentContextRef2 = locator.useBeanFactory("parent2Key"); 

而使用我们改造的方法,则要写成如下:

parentContextRef1 = ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance("parentBeanFactory.xml", "parent1Key"); 
parentContextRef2 = ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance("parentBeanFactory.xml", "parent2Key"); 

相当麻烦且无语,引用了也只是这个配置文件中的某一个Bean的引用,没什么意义。

这就是为什么BeanFactoryLocator接口存在的一个原因,用于查找某个配置文件中的一个BeanFactory。

public interface BeanFactoryLocator {
        BeanFactoryReference useBeanFactory(String factoryKey) throws BeansException;
}

this.context = createWebApplicationContext(servletContext, parent);

我们来看看这个函数做了些什么:

protected WebApplicationContext createWebApplicationContext( 
            ServletContext servletContext, ApplicationContext parent) throws BeansException {
       // 获得需要实例化的CONTEXT类名,确定ContextClass的类型。如果在web.xml中配置了contextClass这个parameter,
        // 使用这个指定的类作为ContextClass,会抛出ClassNotFound的异常。反之,使用默认的XmlWebApplicationContext
        Class contextClass = determineContextClass(servletContext); 

        // 所有的WebApplicationContext必须实现ConfigurableWebApplicationContext接口 
        if (!ConfigurableWebApplicationContext.class.isAssignableFrom(contextClass)) { 
            throw new ApplicationContextException("Custom context class [" + contextClass.getName() + 
                    "] is not of type [" + ConfigurableWebApplicationContext.class.getName() + "]"); 
        }

        ConfigurableWebApplicationContext wac = 
                (ConfigurableWebApplicationContext) BeanUtils.instantiateClass(contextClass); 

       // 设置父环境 
        wac.setParent(parent); 
       // 设置Servlet上下文环境 
        wac.setServletContext(servletContext); 
       // 设置Spring配置文件路径 
        wac.setConfigLocation(servletContext.getInitParameter(CONFIG_LOCATION_PARAM)); 
       customizeContext(servletContext, wac); 
       wac.refresh();

       return wac; 
}

protected Class determineContextClass(ServletContext servletContext) throws ApplicationContextException {
       // 获得需要实例化的CONTEXT类名,在web.xml中有设置,如果没有设置,那么为空 
        String contextClassName = servletContext.getInitParameter(CONTEXT_CLASS_PARAM); 
       if (contextClassName != null) { 
           try { 
                return ClassUtils.forName(contextClassName); 
            } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) { 
                throw new ApplicationContextException("Failed to load custom context class.", ex); 
            } 
       } else {

           //如果在spring web.xml中没有设置context类位置,那么取得默认context
           //取得defaultStrategies配置文件中的WebApplicationContext属性  
            contextClassName = defaultStrategies.getProperty(WebApplicationContext.class.getName()); 
           try { 
                return ClassUtils.forName(contextClassName, ContextLoader.class.getClassLoader()); 
           } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) { 
                throw new ApplicationContextException("Failed to load default context class.", ex); 
           } 
       } 
} 
private static final String DEFAULT_STRATEGIES_PATH = "ContextLoader.properties";

static { 
     // Load default strategy implementations from properties file. 
     // This is currently strictly internal and not meant to be customized 
     // by application developers. 
     try { 
         ClassPathResource resource = new ClassPathResource(DEFAULT_STRATEGIES_PATH, ContextLoader.class); 
         defaultStrategies = PropertiesLoaderUtils.loadProperties(resource); 
     } catch (IOException ex) { 
         throw new IllegalStateException("Could not load 'ContextLoader.properties': " + ex.getMessage()); 
     } 
}

// 在ContextLoader.properties里定义如下

org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext=org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext

再来看看Spring是如果进行初始化ApplicationContext的。就以XmlWebApplicationContext来说,它继承了ConfigurableWebApplicationContext这个接口,里面有个refresh()方法,我们可以看看它的实现(AbstractApplicationContext):

public void refresh() throws BeansException, IllegalStateException { 
        synchronized (this.startupShutdownMonitor) { 
            // Prepare this context for refreshing. 
            prepareRefresh();

            // Tell the subclass to refresh the internal bean factory. 
            ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory = obtainFreshBeanFactory();

            // Prepare the bean factory for use in this context. 
            prepareBeanFactory(beanFactory);

            try { 
                // Allows post-processing of the bean factory in context subclasses. 
                postProcessBeanFactory(beanFactory);

                // Invoke factory processors registered as beans in the context. 
                invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(beanFactory);

                // Register bean processors that intercept bean creation. 
                registerBeanPostProcessors(beanFactory);

                // Initialize message source for this context. 
                initMessageSource();

                // Initialize event multicaster for this context. 
                initApplicationEventMulticaster();

                // Initialize other special beans in specific context subclasses. 
                onRefresh();

                // Check for listener beans and register them. 
                registerListeners();

                // Instantiate all remaining (non-lazy-init) singletons. 
                finishBeanFactoryInitialization(beanFactory);

                // Last step: publish corresponding event. 
                finishRefresh(); 
            }  catch (BeansException ex) { 
                // Destroy already created singletons to avoid dangling resources. 
                beanFactory.destroySingletons();

                // Reset 'active' flag. 
                cancelRefresh(ex);

                // Propagate exception to caller. 
                throw ex; 
            } 
        } 
}

这个方法的实现由于涉及的东西比较多,比较国际化,事件等等,等我们理解了后续的源代码分析之后再重新过来进行研究。这样效率更高点。

这样关于Spring在web项目中加载及初始化的方式我们大概也了解的比较清楚了,我们可以看到,Spring就第一步,加载都已经做了很多工作,不得不佩服Spring团队的智慧。

 

最后,Spring加载完成之前,会将ApplicationContext放入ServletContext中,方便程序进行访问。

servletContext.setAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE, this.context); 
currentContextPerThread.put(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(), this.context);

其中WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE定义如下:

String ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE = WebApplicationContext.class.getName() + ".ROOT";

 

Spring环境

加载组件:ContextLoaderListener

配置路径:Servlet环境初始化参数contextConfigLocation指定的路径

缺省路径: 没有缺省路径

 

Spring环境的父环境

加载组件:ContextLoaderListener和ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator

配置路径:Servlet环境初始化参数locatorFactorySelector指定Bean工厂定位器使用的给BeanFactory,Servlet环境初始化参数parentContextKey指定Bean工厂定位器用于查找BeanFactory的关键字

缺省路径: parentContextKey的缺省路径是classpath*:beanRefFactory.xml

 

这里我们还有一个功能相近的类没有进行说明:

ContextJndiBeanFactoryLocator

有兴趣的同学可以自己看一下。

posted @ 2010-11-14 20:42  Bob Zeng  阅读(13191)  评论(1编辑  收藏  举报