[FIXED] Could not autowire field in spring. why?

Issue

I keep getting this error, and can't figure out why.. yes I know there many people had similar issues, but reading the answers they got, does not solve my problem.

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'contactController': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private net.service.ContactService net.controller.ContactController.contactService; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No matching bean of type [net.service.ContactService] 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)}

here is the controller:

@Controller
@SessionAttributes
public class ContactController {

    @Autowired
    private ContactService contactService;
//methods...


}

the ContactServiceImpl

@Service("contactService")
@Transactional(propagation = Propagation.SUPPORTS, readOnly = true)
public class ContactServiceImpl implements ContactService {

    @Autowired
    private ContactDao contactDao;

    public ContactServiceImpl() {
    }

    @Override
    @Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED, readOnly = false)
    public void addContact(Contact contact) {
        contactDao.saveContact(contact);
    }

    @Override
    public List<Contact> getContacts() {
        return contactDao.getAllContacts();
    }

}

the ContactDaoImpl

@Repository("contactDao")
public class ContactDaoImpl implements ContactDao {

    @Autowired
    private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    @Override
    public void saveContact(Contact contact) {
        sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().saveOrUpdate(contact);
    }

    @Override
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public List<Contact> getAllContacts() {
        return (List<Contact>) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createQuery("from contact c").list();
    }

}

and the spring-servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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-3.0.xsd">

    <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:jdbc.properties" />
    <context:component-scan base-package="net.controller" />


    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="hibernateTransactionManager" />

    <bean id="viewResolver"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
        <property name="viewClass"
            value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="dataSource"
        class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="${database.driver}" />
        <property name="url" value="${database.url}" />
        <property name="username" value="${database.user}" />
        <property name="password" value="${database.password}" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="sessionFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="annotatedClasses">
            <list>
                <value>net.form.Contact</value>
            </list>
        </property>


        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${hibernate.show_sql}</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="hibernateTransactionManager"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
    </bean>
</beans>

Solution

In spring servlet .xml :

<context:component-scan base-package="net.controller" />

(I assumed that the service impl is in the same package as the service interface "net.service")

I think you have to add the package net.service (or all of net) to the component scan. Currently spring only searches in net.controller for components and as your service impl is in net.service, it will not be instantiated by spring.

Answered By - Pyranja
Answer Checked By - Gilberto Lyons (JavaFixing Admin)