Spring MVC: How to use a request-scoped bean inside a spawned thread?

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OK, by reading the code in SimpleThreadScope that comes with Spring I think you can create a SimpleInheritableThreadScope by using an InheritableThreadLocal instead.

Then just use a bit of xml to register your custom scope:

<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomScopeConfigurer">
      <property name="scopes">
          <map>
              <entry key="thread-inherited">
                  <bean class="org.mael.spring.context.support.SimpleInheritableThreadScope"/>
              </entry>
          </map>
      </property>
  </bean>

This means that when you create a bean with a thread-inherited scope, you will have access to this bean with a copy per thread and that copy will be avaliable in threads spawned by your thread i.e. a request scoped bean that can be used in threads spawned in your request thread.

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