Inject files as list of resources using wildcard by annotations in Spring

Question

I have a class which I use as a spring bean. The bean is defined in the `applicationContext.xml` like: ``` ``` And `MyClass` looks like: ``` ... import org.springframework.core.io.Resource; ... public class MyClass { private List cssFiles; // methods etc. } ``` So Spring populates the cssFiles field with all the files with .css extension under "classpath*:../../cssDir/" . Now I am working on moving to full annotation configuration, but I could not manage to do the same thing with annotations. This does NOT work: ``` ... import org.springframework.core.io.Resource; ... @Component public class MyClass { @Value("classpath*:../../cssDir/*.css") private List cssFiles; // methods etc. } ``` Do you have any idea?

Accepted Answer

Try the following, if you're willing to use an array instead of a `List`:

```
@Value("classpath*:../../cssDir/*.css")
private Resource[] cssFiles;
```

Inject files as list of resources using wildcard by annotations in Spring

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