add support for arrays inside the xml configuration (<array> element) [SPR-5543]

[spring-projects-issues]

Costin Leau opened SPR-5543 and commented

Please add support for <array> to the beans schema. An example definition would like this:

<osgi:component id="arrayExample" class="example.ArrayBean">

<property name="myInts">
<array value-type="int">
<value>1</value>
<value>2</value>
<value>3</value>
<value>5</value>
<value>8</value>
</array>
</property>
<property name="myStrings">
<array value-type="java.lang.String">
<value>one</value>
<value>two</value>
<value>three</value>
<value>five</value>
<value>eight</value>
</array>
</property>
</osgi:component>
It would be nice if the array could try to determine the its type automatically (i.e. check the type of its elements and determine the lowest common class). However, this might be problematic when conversion is involved so maybe it's best for now to require the array type.

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Affects: 3.0 M2

Referenced from: commits 1b5812d