Is it possible to inject beans using an XML file in Spring? - spring

Question

I am trying to inject a bean into an application using an XML file. The main function has
try(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("/spring/application.xml")) {
context.registerShutdownHook();
app.setResourceLoader(context);
app.run(args);
} catch (final Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
I also have a Person POJO and is set in the xml file.
The xml defination is as follows:
<context:annotation-config/>
<bean id="person" class="hello.service.Person" p:name="Ben" p:age="25" />
<bean class="hello.HelloBeanPostProcessor"/>
The link to my repo is:
https://bitbucket.org/rkc2015/gs-scheduling-tasks-complete
It is the default guide from Spring boot that does a scheduled task.
I'm trying to inject the Person POJO defined in the xml file into a scheduled task.
I am currently getting this error:
Error creating bean with name 'scheduledTasks': Injection of autowired
dependencies failed; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not
autowire field: private hello.service.Person
hello.service.ScheduledTasks.person; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No
qualifying bean of type [hello.service.Person] found for dependency:
expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for
this dependency. Dependency annotations:
{#org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
Can anyone please help? I am new to Spring.

Answer 1

You can use #ImportResource annotation to import xml configurations.
Documentation link
#SpringBootApplication
#EnableScheduling
#ImportResource("/spring/application.xml")
public class Application {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
SpringApplication app = new SpringApplication(Application.class);
app.run();
}
}

Answer 2

If this is through spring bean you should have used #component annotation for you bean definition or else i application.xml you should have defined scheduledTasks bean also and with it member variable of person so that both beans are created and can be autowired.