Why is my #Autowired field null here? - spring

Question

This is not a duplicate of this question. So please don't close it for "is duplicate of" reasons..
I am trying to autowire a private field in my service class using this tutorial. My problem is that restaurantOwnerRepository remains null and does not get initialized.
servlet-context.xml
<context:component-scan base-package="com.mahlzeit.web.server" />
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="configLocation" value="classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml" />
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven />
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
<bean id="restaurantOwnerRepository" class="com.mahlzeit.web.server.dao.RestaurantOwnerRepository">
<constructor-arg>
<ref bean="sessionFactory" />
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
Service code:
#Component
public class RestaurantInformationServiceImpl extends XsrfProtectedServiceServlet implements RestaurantInformationService {
private static final long serialVersionUID = -4088840947018614411L;
#Autowired
private RestaurantOwnerRepository restaurantOwnerRepository;
private final static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(RestaurantInformationServiceImpl.class);
#Override
public List<RestaurantDTO> getAvailableRestaurants() {
// restaurantOwnerRepository is 'null'
List<Restaurant> availableRestaurants = restaurantOwnerRepository.getAvailableRestaurants(getSessionId());
return null;
}
private String getSessionId() {
HttpServletRequest httpRequest = getThreadLocalRequest();
return httpRequest.getSession().getId();
}
}
RestaurantOwnerRepository.java
public class RestaurantOwnerRepository implements RestauranOwnerDAO {
private SessionFactory sessionFactory;
public RestaurantOwnerRepository(SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
this.sessionFactory = sessionFactory;
}
// ..
}
What could be the reason for this?

Answer 1

here is a sample controller for your example , you should define the bean in your context.xml or if you place it in this package : com.mahlzeit.web.server it will be managed by spring automatically , cause as i see you have placed the context:component-scan
#Controller
public class RestaurantInformationServiceImpl {
#Autowired
private RestaurantOwnerRepository restaurantOwnerRepository;
#RequestMapping(value="/")
public #ResponseBody ModelAndView getRestaurants(
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) {
ModelAndView model = new ModelAndView("yourPage");
List<?> rests = restaurantOwnerRepository.getAvailableRestaurants(httpRequest.getSession().getId());
model.addObject("restList", rests );
return model;
}
}