JAVA EE: Spring dependency checking with Custom @Required Annotation

Friday 17 August 2018

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pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0%20http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.ram.core</groupId>

    <artifactId>SpringDemo</artifactId>

    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <name>SpringDemo</name>

    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <properties>

        <spring.version>5.0.2.RELEASE</spring.version>

    </properties>

    <dependencies>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>junit</groupId>

            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>

            <version>3.8.1</version>

            <scope>test</scope>

        </dependency>

        <!-- Spring 5 dependencies -->

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>

            <version>${spring.version}</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>

            <version>${spring.version}</version>

        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

</project>

Mandatory.java

package com.ram.custom;

import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;

import java.lang.annotation.Retention;

import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;

import java.lang.annotation.Target;

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)

@Target(ElementType.METHOD)

public @interface Mandatory

{

}

Address.java

package com.ram.model;

public class Address

{

    private String city;

    private String state;

    public String getCity()

    {

        return city;

    }

    public void setCity(String city)

    {

        this.city = city;

    }

    public String getState()

    {

        return state;

    }

    public void setState(String state)

    {

        this.state = state;

    }

    @Override

    public String toString()

    {

        return "Address [city=" + city + ", state=" + state + "]";

    }

}

Employee.java

package com.ram.model;

import com.ram.custom.Mandatory;

public class Employee

{

    private int id;

    private String name;

    private Address address;

    public int getId()

    {

        return id;

    }

    public void setId(int id)

    {

        this.id = id;

    }

    public String getName()

    {

        return name;

    }

    public void setName(String name)

    {

        this.name = name;

    }

    public Address getAddress()

    {

        return address;

    }

    @Mandatory

    public void setAddress(Address address)

    {

        this.address = address;

    }

    @Override

    public String toString()

    {

        return "Employee [id=" + id + ", name=" + name + ", address=" + address

                + "]";

    }

}

applicationContext.xml

<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"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.3.xsd

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.3.xsd">

    <bean id="address" class="com.ram.model.Address">

        <property name="city" value="TamilNadu"></property>

        <property name="state" value="Chennai"></property>

    </bean>

    <bean id="employee" class="com.ram.model.Employee">

        <property name="id" value="100"></property>

        <property name="name" value="Peter"></property>

        <!-- <property name="address" ref="address"></property> -->

    </bean>

    <bean

        class="org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor">

        <property name="requiredAnnotationType" value="com.ram.custom.Mandatory" />

    </bean>

</beans>

App.java

package com.ram.core;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;

import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

import com.ram.model.Employee;

public class App

{

    public static void main(String[] args)

    {

        ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(

                "applicationContext.xml");

        System.out.println("---------------------------------------");

        Employee employee = context.getBean("employee", Employee.class);

        System.out.println(

                "Got employee object from the ApplicationContext(Spring Container)");

        System.out.println(employee);

    }

}

Output

Aug 06, 2018 9:47:19 AM org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext prepareRefresh

INFO: Refreshing org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext@5b37e0d2: startup date [Mon Aug 06 09:47:19 IST 2018]; root of context hierarchy

Aug 06, 2018 9:47:19 AM org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions

INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [applicationContext.xml]

Aug 06, 2018 9:47:20 AM org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext refresh

WARNING: Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'employee' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanInitializationException: Property 'address' is required for bean 'employee'

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'employee' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanInitializationException: Property 'address' is required for bean 'employee'

    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:591)

    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:502)

    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$0(AbstractBeanFactory.java:312)

    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:228)

    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:310)

    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:200)

    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:758)

    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:868)

    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:549)

    at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:144)

    at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:85)

    at com.ram.core.App.main(App.java:12)

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanInitializationException: Property 'address' is required for bean 'employee'

    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:156)

    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1344)

    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:582)

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