The id attribute defaults to the xbean tag name

• Key: XBEAN-34
• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Blevins
• Component/s: spring
• Affects Version/s: 2.6

Description

The id attribute of the xbean tag should be optional and when not explicitly specified should default to the name of the xbean tag itself. Such as

<j:transactionManager id="transactionManager"/>

can just be:

<j:transactionManager/>

The schema can also express the default value of the id attribute of the <j:transactionManager complex type.

Comments

note that I don't think this would work in a validating XSD as spring 2 uses ID/IDREFs to validate IDs match up etc

[james strachan]

Spring allows you to specify a 'name' instead of an 'id' - so maybe we should default 'name' to the name of the element?