Spring Transactional annotation giving CGLIB error - spring

Question

I am getting the following error when using the #Transactional annotation. Any ideas?
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'myRepository' defined in file [myFile]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.aop.framework.AopConfigException: Could not generate CGLIB subclass of class [class myRepository]: Common causes of this problem include using a final class or a non-visible class; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Superclass has no null constructors but no arguments were given
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:529)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:191)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:636)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:932)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:479)
at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139)
at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83)
at myRepository.main(myRepository.java:104)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)
Caused by: org.springframework.aop.framework.AopConfigException: Could not generate CGLIB subclass of class [class myRepository]: Common causes of this problem include using a final class or a non-visible class; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Superclass has no null constructors but no arguments were given
at org.springframework.aop.framework.CglibAopProxy.getProxy(CglibAopProxy.java:217)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactory.getProxy(ProxyFactory.java:111)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.createProxy(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:477)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.wrapIfNecessary(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:362)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.postProcessAfterInitialization(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:322)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsAfterInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1520)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:521)
... 16 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Superclass has no null constructors but no arguments were given
at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.emitConstructors(Enhancer.java:721)
at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.generateClass(Enhancer.java:499)
at org.springframework.cglib.transform.TransformingClassGenerator.generateClass(TransformingClassGenerator.java:33)
at org.springframework.cglib.core.DefaultGeneratorStrategy.generate(DefaultGeneratorStrategy.java:25)
at org.springframework.cglib.core.AbstractClassGenerator.create(AbstractClassGenerator.java:216)
at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.createHelper(Enhancer.java:377)
at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.create(Enhancer.java:285)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.CglibAopProxy.getProxy(CglibAopProxy.java:205)
Code:
#Repository
public class MyRepository {
private MyDao myDao;
#Autowired
public MyRepository(MyDao myDao) {
this.myDao = myDao
}
#Transactional
public void save(Object obj) {
if (obj.isNew())
myDao.create(obj)
}
}
XML:
<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:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
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-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.0.xsd">
<!-- Enable Annotation based Declarative Transaction Management -->
<tx:annotation-driven proxy-target-class="true"
transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
<!-- Creating TransactionManager Bean, since JDBC we are creating of type DataSourceTransactionManager -->
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource"
class="com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource" >
// datasource settings
</bean>

Answer 1

Superclass has no null constructors but no arguments were given
You need to autowire the field, and either remove the constructor or provide an additional no-argument constructor.
#Repository
public class MyRepository {
#Autowired
private MyDao myDao;
#Transactional
public void save(Object obj) {
if (obj.isNew())
myDao.create(obj)
}
}
}
Alternatively, use a #Transactional interface instead of a class so CGLIB doesn't need to be involved at all.
#Repository
#Transactional
public interface MyRepository {
void save(Object obj);
}
public class MyRepositoryImpl implements MyRepository {
private final MyDao myDao;
#Autowired
public MyRepository(MyDao myDao) {
this.myDao = myDao
}
public void save(Object obj) {
if (obj.isNew())
myDao.create(obj)
}
}
}