Spring Boot – Get All Loaded Beans in Runtime

Spring boot loads lots of beans internally to run the application with minimal configuration. In this example, we will learn to find out all those loaded beans by Spring Boot and their class type information.

Using ApplicationContext to get all loaded beans

To execute a method automatically, when the application is fully loaded, I am using CommandLineRunner interface. CommandLineRunner is used to indicate that a bean should run when it is contained within a Spring Application.

• Use ApplicationContext.getBeanDefinitionNames() to find the name of all loaded beans
• Use ApplicationContext.getBean(beanName) to get bean including its runtime type information.

import java.util.Arrays;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.CommandLineRunner;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
import org.springframework.boot.web.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;

@SpringBootApplication
public class SpringBootWebApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer implements CommandLineRunner {

	@Override
	protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
		return application.sources(SpringBootWebApplication.class);
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		SpringApplication.run(SpringBootWebApplication.class, args);
	}

	@Autowired
    private ApplicationContext appContext;

	@Override
    public void run(String... args) throws Exception
	{
        String[] beans = appContext.getBeanDefinitionNames();

        Arrays.sort(beans);

        for (String bean : beans) {

            System.out.println(bean + " of Type :: " + appContext.getBean(bean).getClass());
        }
    }
}

Program Output

Running the above application will print bean names and type information in the console like the below:

2017-03-06 13:22:50 - Tomcat started on port(s): 8080 (http)

basicErrorController of Type :: class org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.BasicErrorController
beanNameHandlerMapping of Type :: class org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping
beanNameViewResolver of Type :: class org.springframework.web.servlet.view.BeanNameViewResolver
characterEncodingFilter of Type :: class org.springframework.boot.web.filter.OrderedCharacterEncodingFilter
conventionErrorViewResolver of Type :: class org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.DefaultErrorViewResolver
defaultServletHandlerMapping of Type :: class org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurationSupport$EmptyHandlerMapping
defaultViewResolver of Type :: class org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver
dispatcherServlet of Type :: class org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
dispatcherServletRegistration of Type :: class org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.ServletRegistrationBean
duplicateServerPropertiesDetector of Type :: class org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.ServerPropertiesAutoConfiguration$DuplicateServerPropertiesDetector
embeddedServletContainerCustomizerBeanPostProcessor of Type :: class org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizerBeanPostProcessor
error of Type :: class org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.ErrorMvcAutoConfiguration$SpelView
errorAttributes of Type :: class org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.DefaultErrorAttributes
...
...
...

I have truncated the output. You can verify the whole list yourself.

Happy Learning !!