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Spring MVC request scoped bean with Example
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Hints 
request level scope of beans are initiate the instance each and every request calls. In below Example explained how to use request level beans in Spring.
Step.1 Start a Web based Spring application 
  1. Select New menu -> Dynamic Web Project
  2. Enter Project Name as "RequestScopeExample"
  3. Click Next, Selecting Target runtime as Apache Tomcat 7.0
  4. Click Next, Check Generate web.xml deployment descriptor then click on "Finish"
  5. Copy and paste Spring's 21 Framework Jars, aopalliance-1.0.jar, aspectjtools-1.6.6.jar and commons-logging-1.1.jar into /WEB-INF/lib
Step.2 Project Explorer Preview 
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
              xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
              xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
                                  http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
              id="WebApp_ID"
              version="3.0">

  <display-name>RequestScopeExample</display-name>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
 
  <!-- Dispatcher servlet for running beans-servlet.xml and request under bs/* pattern url's -->
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>beans</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>beans</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/conn/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
RndHolder.java
package com.knowledgewalls;

public class RndHolder {
    private int rndNumber;
    
    public int getRndNumber(){
        return rndNumber;
    }
    public void setRndNumber(int rndNumber){
        this.rndNumber = rndNumber;
    }
    
    public void generateRndNumber(){
        this.rndNumber = (int) (Math.random() * 99999);
    }
}
Beans-servlet.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

    <bean id="rndHolder" class="com.knowledgewalls.RndHolder" scope="request">
        <aop:scoped-proxy/>
    </bean>
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.knowledgewalls"></context:component-scan>

</beans>
ShowAccountDetails.java
package com.knowledgewalls;


import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;

@Controller("/ShowAccountDetails")
public class ShowAccountDetails extends HttpServlet {

    @Autowired
    RndHolder rndHolder;
    
    @RequestMapping
    public @ResponseBody void getMethod(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception{
        response.getWriter().write("Old No. "+rndHolder.getRndNumber()+"\n");
        rndHolder.generateRndNumber();
        response.getWriter().write("New No. "+rndHolder.getRndNumber()+"\n");
        response.getWriter().write("Hash code Ref. "+rndHolder);
    }
}
Output 
Hints
Not retain rnd number of last request. each request reference of the rndNumber object get Changed.
Running url: http://localhost:8089/RequestScopeExample/conn/ShowAccountDetails

Output: 1
Old No. 0
New No. 17632
Hash code Ref. com.knowledgewalls.RndHolder@17d2f0e

Output: 2
Old No. 0
New No. 61931
Hash code Ref. com.knowledgewalls.RndHolder@145c761
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