java - Get all beans implementing a generic interface in Spring

Question

How do I get a reference of all beans implementing a specific generic interface (e.g. Filter<TestEvent>) in Spring?

This is what I want to achieve with a minimum number of lines:

public interface Filter<T extends Event> {

    boolean approve(T event);

}


public class TestEventFilter implements Filter<TestEvent> {

    public boolean approve(TestEvent event){
        return false;
    }

}

public class EventHandler{
    private ApplicationContext context;

    public void Eventhandler(DomainEvent event) {
        // I want to do something like following, but this is not valid code
        Map<String, Filter> filters = context.getBeansOfType(Filter<event.getClass()>.class);
        for(Filter filter: filters.values()){
            if (!filter.approve(event)) {
                return;  // abort if a filter does not approve the event
            }
        }
        //...
    }

}

My current implementation uses reflection to determine if filter.approve does accept the event before calling it. E.g.

        Map<String, Filter> filters = context.getBeansOfType(Filter.class);
        for(Filter filter: filters.values()){
            if (doesFilterAcceptEventAsArgument(filter, event)) {
                if (!filter.approve(event)) {
                    return;  // abort if a filter does not approve the event
                }
            }
        }

Where the doesFilterAcceptEventAsArgument does all the ugly work that I would like would like to get away from. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Just for reference, the simplest solution I could construct was this:

    Map<String, Filter> filters = context.getBeansOfType(Filter.class);
    for(Filter filter: filters.values()){
        try {
            if (!filter.approve(event)) {
                return;  // abort if a filter does not approve the event.
            }
        } catch (ClassCastException ignored){ }
    }

And it worked quite well for prototyping.