No qualifying bean of type 'java.lang.Class<org.springframework.data.repository.Repository<?, ?>>' available - spring

Question

I use spring data jpa (using CrudRepository interface) in my project and have declared my repository interface like this :
/**
* Repository implementation {#link CrudRepository} for {#link Client} entity
* #author rsone.
*/
public interface ClientRepository extends CrudRepository<Client, Integer> {
}
And have my hibernate config like bellow :
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="hibernateTransactionManager" />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.rsone.mga.*" />
<jpa:repositories base-package="com.rsone.mga.repository" entity-manager-factory-ref="entityManagerFactory" transaction-manager-ref="hibernateTransactionManager"/>
<bean id="datasource" parent="abstractDataSource">
<property name="dataSourceName" value="mgaDS" />
<property name="driverClass" value="${database.mga.jdbc.driver}" />
<property name="jdbcUrl" value="${database.mga.jdbc.url}" />
<property name="user" value="${database.mga.jdbc.user}" />
<property name="password" value="${database.mga.jdbc.pass}" />
<property name="preferredTestQuery" value="SELECT 1 FROM DUAL" />
</bean> <bean id="hibernateTemplate" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTemplate">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
<property name="fetchSize" value="5000" />
<property name="cacheQueries" value="true" />
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="datasource" />
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="datasource"/>
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter" ref="jpaVendorAdapter"/>
<!-- spring based scanning for entity classes>-->
<property name="packagesToScan" value="com.scor.mga.db"/>
</bean>
<!-- Enables the Hibernate #Transactional programming model -->
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="hibernateTransactionManager" />
<bean id="hibernateTransactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
<bean id="jpaVendorAdapter" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
<property name="showSql" value="true"/>
<!--<property name="generateDdl" value="true"/>-->
<property name="database" value="SQL_SERVER"/>
</bean>
But When I try to run my project it give me that error (knowing that the base package of my repositories is com.rsone.mga.repository) :
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type 'java.lang.Class<org.springframework.data.repository.Repository<?, ?>>' available: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate. Dependency annotations: {}
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoMatchingBeanFound(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1466)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1097)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1059)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.resolveAutowiredArgument(ConstructorResolver.java:835)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.createArgumentArray(ConstructorResolver.java:741)
Edit
I use version 1.11.0.RELEASE of spring-data-jpa:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
<version>1.11.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Answer 1

I had the same problem in my maven project.
So this below is not working
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.4.1.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
together with
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-cassandra</artifactId>
<version>1.5.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
Solution
It was solved by updating to the newest Spring boot release :
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.1.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
Doing this already solved the problem.
It looks like the spring data tags are not backwards compatible with previous versions (other than the managed version).
So I would also recommend removing the version tag from the spring-data-cassandra dependency. Apparently Spring boot 1.5.1.RELEASE manages spring-data-cassandra 1.5.0.RELEASE.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-cassandra</artifactId>
</dependency>

Answer 2

It doesn't seem to be an error in your configuration files.
It look like you have an #Autowired on a field of type java.lang.Class<org.springframework.data.repository.Repository<?, ?>> in one of the beans that are scanned.