So this is basically what I am trying to achieve: Inject User with constructor into UserClass. But it is throwing "No default constructor found" error. As I suspect if I add #Autowired to class User constructor it expects injection there so I'm not really sure where the problem is.
The question might be too basic so you can redirect me to older such questions. There is very little information on annotation based DI.
#Component
public class UserClass {
public User user;
#Autowired
public UserClass(User user) {
this.user = user;
}
}
#Configuration
public class DIconfig {
#Bean
public User getUser() {
return new User('John');
}
}
#Component
public class User {
public String name;
//#Autowired
public User(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
}
Thank you for your time.
You define two beans of the class User, one with #Component, and one with #Bean. The bean configuration with #Bean is fine so far, however the bean definition with #Component is indeed lacking the default constructor. Every bean which is defined with #Component must either have a default constructor or a constructor where all dependencies are autowired. Neither is the case with your bean. So either add a default constructor or remove the #Component and only create beans of that class with an #Bean method.
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public interface CourseRepo extends CrudRepository<Course, Long> {
}
#Getter
#Setter
#AllArgsConstructor
#NoArgsConstructor
public class UnitOfWork {
CourseRepo courses;
StudentRepository students;
StudyProgramRepository studyPrograms;
StudySchemeRepo studySchemes;
FeeStructureRepository feeStructures;
}
#RestController
public class TestController {
#Autowired
UnitOfWork uow;
#GetMapping("/addcr")
public String addCourse() {
Course cr = new Course();
cr.setTitle("DingDong course");
uow.getCourses().save(cr);
return "course Added..!!" ;
}
APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:
Field uow in com.srs.TestController required a bean of type 'com.srs.uow.UnitOfWork' that could not be found.
The injection point has the following annotations:
- #org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)
Action:
Consider defining a bean of type 'com.srs.uow.UnitOfWork' in your configuration.
if i remove autowired and add a bean
#RestController
public class TestController {
#Bean
public UnitOfWork uow() {
return new UnitOfWork();
}
#GetMapping("/addcr")
public String addCourse() {
Course cr = new Course();
cr.setTitle("DingDong course");
uow().getCourses().save(cr);
return "course Added..!!" ;
}
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.srs.jpa.CourseRepo.save(Object)"
because the return value of "com.srs.uow.UnitOfWork.getCourses()" is null
i tried both autowired and in this case how can i use autowired or bean properly ?
Your class need to be annotated with #Component to be used with DI provider by #Autowired annotation
For the same reason each repository of your class need to be annotated with #Autowired
The Error Message gives the answer.
Field uow in com.srs.TestController required a bean of type 'com.srs.uow.UnitOfWork' that could not be found.
spring is searching for a bean from type UnitOfWork. You have to add this class to the application context from spring boot. To accomplish this you have to annotate the class UnitOfWork with #bean or #Data if you use lombok.
After this the spring application can find the Class UnitOfWork and auto wire it.
Since UnitOfWork (a somewhat misleading name in the JPA context) autowires data repositories, it has to be a Spring Bean itself.
The easiest and most common way is to annotate the class with one of the annotations #Service, #Component or #Bean, depending on the semantic of the class. There are also other ways, like the #Bean on method-level as you used.
To use the fully initialized bean you need to autowire it where you want to use it, not calling the create method. E.g. calling uow() as in your sample, bypasses the Spring Bean mechanism and creates a new instance, which hasn't been fully initialized (thus the NullPointerException).
Usually, the beans are autowired as fields, sometimes they are autowired in mehtod parameters (especially when working with #Bean on method-level in the same class).
E.g.
#Component
#Getter
#RequiredArgsConstructor
public class UnitOfWork {
private final CourseRepo courses;
private final StudentRepository students;
private final StudyProgramRepository studyPrograms;
private final StudySchemeRepo studySchemes;
private final FeeStructureRepository feeStructures;
}
I have read that #Qualifier can be used in Injection phase whereas #Primary is used in Configuration phase. Am still unclear when to use which.
Also I have below doubts
can #Primary and #Qualifier be used together? if yes does #Qualifier take precedence?
can #Primary be used with #Autowired?
How is the Injection phase different from Configuration phase, this in respect to Spring beans
#Primary indicates that a bean should be given preference when multiple candidates
are qualified to autowire a single-valued dependency.
#Qualifier indicates specific bean should be autowired when there are multiple candidates.
For example, we have two beans both implement the same interface.
public interface BeanInterface {
String getName();
}
public class Bean1 implements BeanInterface {
#Override
public String getName() {
return "bean 1";
}
}
public class Bean2 implements BeanInterface {
#Override
public String getName() {
return "bean2";
}
}
Here is our service.
#Service
public class BeanService {
#Autowired
private BeanInterface bean;
}
And our configuration.
#Configuration
public class Config {
#Bean("bean1")
public BeanInterface bean1() {
return new Bean1();
}
#Bean("bean2")
public BeanInterface bean2() {
return new Bean2();
}
}
When Spring starts, it will find there are two beans("bean1" and "bean2") both can be autowired to BeanService since they implement the same interface BeanInterface. It reports an error in my Idea.
Could not autowire. There is more than one bean of 'BeanInterface' type.
Beans: bean1 (Config.java)
bean2 (Config.java)
And without a hint, Spring does not know which one to use.
So in our case, when we add #Primary to Config.bean1().
#Bean("bean1")
#Primary
public BeanInterface bean1() {
return new Bean1();
}
It tells Spring, "when you find more than one beans that both can be autowired, please use the primary one as your first choose." So, Spring will pick bean1 to autowire to BeanService.
Here is another way to autowire bean1 to BeanService by using #Qualifier in BeanService.class.
#Service
public class BeanService {
#Autowired
#Qualifier("bean1")
private BeanInterface bean;
}
#Qualifier will tell Spring, "no matter how many beans you've found, just use the one I tell you."
So you can find both #Qualifier and #Primary are telling Spring to use the specific bean when multiple candidates are qualified to autowire. But #Qualifier is more specific and has high priority. So when both #Qualifier and #Primary are found, #Primary will be ignored.
Here is the test.
#Configuration
public class Config {
#Bean("bean1")
#Primary
public BeanInterface bean1() {
return new Bean1();
}
#Bean("bean2")
public BeanInterface bean2() {
return new Bean2();
}
}
#Service
public class BeanService {
#Autowired
#Qualifier("bean2")
private BeanInterface bean;
#PostConstruct
public void test() {
String name = bean.getName();
System.out.println(name);
}
}
The output is "bean2".
Also, need to remember that #Qualifier as bigger priority then #Primary, that's means that it's waste to define both of the annotations.
#Primary means default implementation, while #Qualifier is the specific implementation.
You can review my blog I wrote regarding this annotations -
http://shaikezam.com/#/spring_qualifier
Yes, #Qualifier takes precedence.
Yes we can user #Primary and #Autowired together.
#Configuration Class related to Application Context which can be use to configure application level configuration.
To access beans with the same type we usually use #Qualifier(“beanName”) annotation. We apply it at the injection point along with #Autowired. In our case, we select the beans at the configuration phase so #Qualifier can't be applied here.
To resolve this issue Spring offers the #Primary annotation along with #Bean annotation.
Source
I want declare multiple object using same class but different properties in Spring boot annotation
application.properties
test1.name=Ken
test2.name=Anthony
the code example
#Component
public class People {
private String name;
public String getName() {
return this.name;
}
}
#SpringBootApplication
public class Application {
#AutoWired
public People man1;
#AutoWired
public People man2;
System.out.println(man1.getName());
System.out.println(man2.getName());
}
I try to add #ConfigurationProperties(prefix="test1") before declare man1
but it returned
The annotation #ConfigurationProperties is disallowed for this location
#ConfigurationProperties is only allow to be placed on the #Bean method in the #Configuration class or at the class level. For the former case , it will map the properties from the application.properties to the bean instance , which means you have to :
#SpringBootApplication
public class Application {
#Bean
#ConfigurationProperties(prefix="test1")
public People man1() {
return new People();
}
#Bean
#ConfigurationProperties(prefix="test2")
public People man2() {
return new People();
}
}
And since both man1 and man2 are the same type , you have to further use #Qualifier to tell Spring which instance you actually want to inject by specifying its bean name. The bean name can be configured by #Bean("someBeanName"). If #Bean is used without configuring the bean name, the method name will be used as the bean name. (i.e. man1 and man2)
#Autowired
#Qualifier("man1")
public People man1;
#Autowired
#Qualifier("man2")
public People man2;
I have a Class that accepts the following constructor
public Student(int id, String name, Map<String, List<String>> mapInject) {
super();
this.id = id;
this.name = name;
this.mapInject = mapInject;
}
And from spring Java Config, I am injecting the constructor args like below..
#Configuration
public class JavaConfig {
#Bean
public Employee getEmployeeBean() {
Map<String,List<String>> mapInject = new HashMap<String,List<String>>();
//Add map element
return new Employee(3123,"John",mapInject);
}
}
Am i doing constructor injection here? Is this the right way to do so?
I wouldn't use Spring to handle this bean creation, unless you want ALL employees to have the same id and name which I doubt.
The power behind Spring is its Dependency Injection (DI) where you define beans for providers such as database managers, services, etc. and inject those into your components. Defining a #Bean like you have there serves no purpose as now you can only inject employees with an id of 3123 and name John.
It's important to understand that just because you are using Spring it doesn't mean EVERYTHING needs to be handled as a bean - you will always need standard POJOs for housing and passing around state (such as your Employee class) which doesn't need to have anything to do with Spring.
Down the line you might have an EmployeeService for example which houses business logic to fetch employees from a database or something, this could then be configured as a bean so it can be injected across the application.
EDIT
#Configuration
public class JavaConfig {
#Bean
#Autowired //assuming a sessionfactory been is configured elsewhere
public EmployeeService employeeService(final SessionFactory sessionfactory) {
return new EmployeeService(sessionFactory);
}
}
You could then inject this anywhere (maybe in a controller for example):
#RestController
public class EmployeeController {
private final EmployeeService employeeService;
#Autowired
public EmployeeController(final EmployeeService employeeService) {
this.employeeService = employeeService;
}
}
Where the EmployeeController doesn't need to know or care that the userService has a DB connection and doesn't need to worry about configuring it as Spring will handle all of that.
I'm developing a Spring Boot application and am trying out using Java annotation-based bean creation (using #Configuration and #Bean) rather than the familiar old XML-based bean creation. I'm puzzled though. If I attempt to create a bean in XML but fail to set an #Required property I get a BeanInitializationException when the application context is created. In my trials so far with annotation-based bean creation though this does not seem to be the case.
For example:
public class MyClass {
...
#Required
public void setSomeProp(String val){
}
}
Then in Spring XML:
<bean class="MyClass"/>
This will blow up during application startup (and IntelliJ flags it) because the required property is not set. But the same does not seem to be true of this:
#Configuration
public class MyConfig {
#Bean
public MyClass myClass() {
return new MyClass();
}
}
This application starts up just fine even though the required property is not ever set. I must be missing something here, because this seems like a pretty key feature in Spring.
UPDATE
I did some digging & debugging and it turns out that the bean definition is somehow being flagged to skip checking that #Required fields are set. In the Spring class 'RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor' the boolean method 'shouldSkip()' is returning true for beans created this way. When I used the debugger to force that method to return false bean creation did indeed blow up with the expected exception.
Seeing as I'm making a pretty basic Spring Boot application I'm inclined (as Zergleb suggests) to submit this as a bug.
UPDATE 2
Some further debugging has revealed that even if the field is getting set forcing the check still throws the same exception, as if it hadn't been set. So perhaps dunni is correct and there is no way for this to work with #Bean notation.
As you said I also could not get #Required to run as expected this may be a bug and needs to be reported. I have a few other suggestions that did work for me.
Class annotated with #Configuration
//With the bean set up as usual These all worked
#Bean
public MyClass myClass() {
return new MyClass();
}
When you annotate the class #Component and load using component scanning works as expected.(The component scanning part is important you either need your #Configuration class to either have #ComponentScan or perhaps remove #Configuration and replace with #SpringBootApplication and this will enable scanning for components without needing to wire them up using #Bean configs)
#Component // Added this
public class MyClass {
...
#Required //Failed as expected
public void setSomeProp(String val){
}
}
Use #Autowired(required=true) //Fails with BeanCreationException //No qualifying bean of type [java.lang.String] found for dependency
//No more #Component
public class MyClass {
...
#Autowired(required=true) //Fails
public void setSomeProp(String val){
}
}
#Autowired required=false //Does not crash
public class MyClass {
...
#Autowired(required=false) //Simply never gets called if missing
public void setSomeProp(String val){
}
}
#Value //Does not work if test.property is missing // Could not resolve placeholder 'test.property' in string value "${test.property}
public class MyClass {
#Value("${test.property}")
String someProp;
//This getter is not neccesary neither is a setter
public String getSomeProp() {
return this.someProp;
}
}
#Value with default value//Does not crash // When getSomeProp is called it returns "My Default Value"(Unless you have test.property=Anything in your application.properties file then it returns "Anything"
public class MyClass {
#Value("${test.property:My Default Value}")
String someProp;
//This getter is not neccesary neither is a setter
public String getSomeProp() {
return this.someProp; //Returns "My Default Value"
}
}
Inside your #Configuration file also fails if it cannot find anything to populate String someProp in the myClass method
#Bean
public MyClass myClass(String someProp) { //Fails being unable to populate this arg
MyClass myObj = new MyClass();
myObj.setSomeProp(someProp);
return ;
}
If course this won't work, since you create the object of MyClass yourself (new MyClass()), thus the annotations are not evaluated. If you create a bean with a #Bean method, the container will only make sure, that all dependencies are there (method parameters) and that the bean scope is adhered to, meaning if it's a singleton bean, only one bean is created per application context. The creation of the bean/object itself is solely the responsibility of the developer.
The equivalent of the xml <bean> tag is annotating the class with #Component, where the bean is created completely by the container, thus the annotations are evaluated.
As it is being said that when you are having your own #Configuration class where you are creating the bean by itself, #Required doesn't apply there.
When you already have a #Component, let Spring Boot do the component scan and at the required setter property you can add #Autowired and it will work fine.
Found this link on web- https://www.boraji.com/spring-required-annotation-example
For example:
I have a Component called Employee having Id and Name.
#Component
public class Employee {
int id;
String name;
public int getId() {
return id;
}
#Autowired
#Required
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
}
I have a Configuration class called AppConfig.java
#Configuration
public class AppConfig {
#Bean
public int getId() {
return 1;
}
}
So now we see, that component Employee needs an Id property for binding during startup, so I wrote bean method of type Integer, which will get autowired during runtime. If you do not write a bean of type Integer, it will result a BeanCreationException.
And here is my main class file.
#SpringBootApplication
public class SingletonApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApplicationContext ctx =
SpringApplication.run(SingletonApplication.class, args);
Employee emp = (Employee)ctx.getBean(Employee.class);
System.out.println(emp.getId());
}
}