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At a customer, I'm working on an application that requires auditing. These auditing records should be viewable in a web page and I'm modifying the currently existing data to do just that.
Maven compiles the code without errors, but when calling the webpage to display the audit records, I receive the following exception
04-Jan-2017 15:22:25.133 WARNING [http-nio-7443-exec-7] org.glassfish.jersey.server.spring.AutowiredInjectResolver.getBeanFromSpringContext No qualifying bean of type 'my.company.app.audit.service.IAuditService' available: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate. Dependency annotations: {#org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
04-Jan-2017 15:22:25.167 WARNING [http-nio-7443-exec-7] org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.logErrors The following warnings have been detected: WARNING: Unknown HK2 failure detected:
MultiException stack 1 of 3
org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type 'my.company.app.audit.service.IAuditService' available: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate. Dependency annotations: {#org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
MultiException stack 2 of 3
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: While attempting to resolve the dependencies of my.company.app.audit.rest.resources.AuditResource errors were found
MultiException stack 3 of 3
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to perform operation: resolve on my.company.app.audit.rest.resources.AuditResource
The application class
package my.company.app.audit;
public class AuditApplication extends ResourceConfig {
public AuditApplication() {
register(AuditResource.class);
}
}
The Resource class
package my.company.app.audit.rest.resources;
#Path(AUDIT_RESOURCE_LINK)
#Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
public class AuditResource extends AbstractResource {
#Autowired
private IAuditService auditService; // Commenting out this line results in the exception no longer popping up
}
The Service class
package my.company.app.audit.service;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
#Service
public class AuditService implements IAuditService {
}
Audit application specific config: audit-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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"
xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa
http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd">
<context:annotation-config/>
<context:component-scan base-package="my.company.app.audit"/>
<jpa:repositories base-package="my.company.app.audit" transaction-manager-ref="txManager"/>
<aop:aspectj-autoproxy/>
</beans>
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" version="3.0" metadata-complete="true">
<display-name>foo web_audit</display-name>
<!-- SESSION -->
<session-config>
<session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
<cookie-config>
<name>WEB_AUDIT</name>
<path>/</path>
<http-only>true</http-only>
<secure>true</secure>
</cookie-config>
</session-config>
<!-- SPRING -->
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
classpath:applicationContext.xml,
classpath:foo-json-serialization-beans.xml,
classpath:foo-dao-jpa-beans.xml,
classpath:foo-dao-jpa-vendor-adapter-beans.xml,
classpath:spring/foo-jpa-services-common.xml,
classpath:audit-config.xml,
classpath:iam-config.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
<!-- FILTER -->
<filter>
<filter-name>securityHeadersFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>my.company.fooshared.web.filter.SecurityHeadersFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>securityHeadersFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter>
<filter-name>SSOFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>my.company.fooshared.webaccess.filter.WebAccessFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>acsUrl</param-name>
<param-value>/acs</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>logoutUrl</param-name>
<param-value>/logout</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>authRequestUrl</param-name>
<param-value>/authRequest</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>spProviderId</param-name>
<param-value>screeningutility-ci.browse.companynet.sipn.company.com</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>idProviderSSOUrl</param-name>
<param-value>https://idp.companynet.sipn.company.com/idp/profile/SAML2/POST/SSO</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>cacertPath</param-name>
<param-value>/var/lib/tomcat/cacert/</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>keystoreFile</param-name>
<param-value>/var/lib/tomcat/jks/suchannel.jks</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>SSOFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<!-- JERSEY -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Jersey2Dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>javax.ws.rs.Application</param-name>
<param-value>my.company.app.audit.AuditApplication</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Jersey2Dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<error-page>
<location>/error.html</location>
</error-page>
</web-app>
I took a resembling module as example to build my code on. That other module works fine, so I must be missing something...
Any suggestion is welcome.
When adding default constructors and setting breakpoints inside them, I notice that the constructor of the AuditService class is never called.

Answer 1

Autowiring the class itself instead of the implemented interface solved this issue. I have no explanation of why the interface didn't work.
Edit
I have probably found the cause of the issue.
While modifying the code, I introduced some new modules in maven. Those new modules are child-modules of the module that initially contained the code.
Old situation: New siuation:
audit-module audit-module
|- src |- persistence
|- target | |- src
|- pom.xml | |- target
| |- pom.xml
|- service
| |- src
| |- target
| |- pom.xml
|- web
| |- src
| |- target
| |- pom.xml
|- pom.xml
But other modules that were relying on the old audit-module were not updated and thus were refering to the parent of the new modules. This is likely the cause that the AuditService class was not loaded properly by Spring