#Qualifier annotation not working - spring

Question

I am trying DI with autowiring and I came across #Qualifier annotation annd tried the following code:
Car.java
package beans;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
//import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
public class Car {
#Autowired
#Qualifier("e1")
private Engine engine;
// no need to have setter or constructor
public void showData(){
System.out.println("Engine Model Year : "+engine.getModelyear());
}
}
Engine.java
package beans;
public class Engine {
private String modelyear;
public void setModelyear(String modelyear) {
this.modelyear = modelyear;
}
public String getModelyear() {
return modelyear;
}
}
Spring.xml
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN 2.0//EN"
"http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans-2.0.dtd">
<beans>
<!-- activate autowire annotation -->
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor"/>
<bean id="e1" class="beans.Engine">
<property name="modelyear" value="2017"/>
</bean>
<bean id="e2" class="beans.Engine">
<property name="modelyear" value="2018"/>
</bean>
<bean id="c" class="beans.Car">
</bean>
</beans>
Main.java
package MainClass;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
import beans.Car;
public class AutoAnno_Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApplicationContext ap=new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("resources/spring.xml");
Car c=(Car)ap.getBean("c");
c.showData();
}
}
And the error I am getting is:
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoUniqueBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type 'beans.Engine' available: expected single matching bean but found 2: e1,e2
what's wrong in this I think the syntax is correct is there any problem with version
I am using eclipse Oxygen

Answer 1

You just need to add <context:annotation-config /> in your spring.xml. Certain spring annotations are not activated unless this is added. In your case, spring is not reading the #Qualifier annotation without the <context:annotation-config />.
I have tested by adding this and it seems to work.
Update:
Your spring xml needs to have the spring schema for that to detect <context:annotation-config>. Your final xml looks like this.
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
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/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<!-- activate autowire annotation -->
<context:annotation-config />
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor"/>
<bean id="e1" class="beans.Engine">
<property name="modelyear" value="2017"/>
</bean>
<bean id="e2" class="beans.Engine">
<property name="modelyear" value="2018"/>
</bean>
<bean id="c" class="beans.Car">
</bean>
</beans>