I think I'm asking this question but for Jersey 1.x: Dependency injection with Jersey 2.0
I'm using Glassfish 3, CDI and Jersey 1.x. I have a @WebService
that is injecting a class like this:
@Inject
Foo foo;
I've tested this in the @WebService
and it works. But the same line of code in my Jersey resource throws a NPE when it tries to use foo
. I think Jersey 1.x is ignoring the CDI annotations. How can I get dependency injection working like it does in my @WebService
?
Foo
is a pojo and my web.xml is using the ServletContainer:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>JerseyServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
I've found some help here. The problem is my Foo
@Inject
s its own beans (they're actually EJBs that come from a class with @Provides
in it). resourceContext.getResource(Foo.class);
returns an instance of Foo
, but foo
's @Inject
ed fields are null.
I found an article that explains how to do this:
The problem here is, that CDI isn’t in place to instantiate the dependency.
Their[sic] are two solutions for this problem:
- Let CDI instantiate the dependency, but let Jersey managed it
This can be achived using
@ManagedBean
and a Jersey specific annotation.
- Let CDI instantiate the dependency and let CDI manage it.
This can be achieved using
@RequestScoped
or other CDI specific annotations.
I chose the first option and put the javax.annotation.ManagedBean
annotation on my resource. Here's an example:
package com.coderskitchen.thegreeter.rest;
import com.coderskitchen.thegreeter.greetings.GreetingService;
import javax.annotation.ManagedBean;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
@Path("/greet")
@ManagedBean
public class Greeter {
@Inject
GreetingService gs;
@GET
@Path("{name}")
public String greetSomeone(@PathParam("name") String name) {
return gs.greetSomeone(name);
}
}
* Also I found this official article, which actually isn't as useful: http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/tutorial/doc/jaxrs-advanced004.htm