org.hibernate.HibernateException: No Session found for current thread - spring

Question

I'm getting the above exception with Spring3 and Hibernte4
The following is my bean xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
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-3.1.xsd">
<context:annotation-config/>
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/GHS"/>
<property name="username" value="root"/>
<property name="password" value="newpwd"/>
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect</prop>
</props>
</property>
<property name="packagesToScan">
<list>
<value>com.example.ghs.model.timetable</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="baseDAO"
class="com.example.ghs.dao.BaseDAOImpl"/>
</beans>
My BaseDAO class looks like this
public class BaseDAOImpl implements BaseDAO{
private SessionFactory sessionFactory;
#Autowired
public BaseDAOImpl(SessionFactory sessionFactory){
this.sessionFactory = sessionFactory;
}
#Override
public Session getCurrentSession(){
return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
}
}
The following code throws the exception in the title
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args){
ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context =
new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("dao-beans.xml");
BaseDAO bd = (BaseDAO) context.getBean("baseDAO");
bd.getCurrentSession();
}
}
Does anyone have an idea about how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

getCurrentSession() only makes sense inside a scope of transaction.
You need to declare an appropriate transaction manager, demarcate boundaries of transaction and perform data access inside it. For example, as follows:
<bean id = "transactionManager" class = "org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name = "sessionFactory" ref = "sessionFactory" />
</bean>
.
PlatformTransactionManager ptm = context.getBean(PlatformTransactionManager.class);
TransactionTemplate tx = new TransactionTemplate(ptm);
tx.execute(new TransactionCallbackWithoutResult() {
public void doInTransactionWithoutResult(TransactionStatus status) {
// Perform data access here
}
});
See also:
10. Transaction Management
13.3 Hibernate

Answer 2

I came across same problem and got solved as below
Added #Transactional on daoImpl class
Added trnsaction manager in configuration file:
<tx:annotation-driven/>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"></property>
</bean>

Answer 3

I'll just add something that took me some time to debug : don't forget that a #Transactional annotation will only work on "public" methods.
I put some #Transactional on "protected" ones and got this error.
Hope it helps :)
http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.1.0.M2/spring-framework-reference/html/transaction.html
Method visibility and #Transactional
When using proxies, you should apply the #Transactional annotation
only to methods with public visibility. If you do annotate protected,
private or package-visible methods with the #Transactional annotation,
no error is raised, but the annotated method does not exhibit the
configured transactional settings. Consider the use of AspectJ (see
below) if you need to annotate non-public methods.

Answer 4

Which package u have put the BaseDAOImpl class in.. I think It requires a package name similar to the one u have used in the application context xml and it requires a relevant annotation too.