Consider defining a bean of type 'service'

Question

I get error when I run the main class.

Error:

Action:
Consider defining a bean of type 'seconds47.service.TopicService' in your configuration.

Description:
Field topicService in seconds47.restAPI.topics required a bean of type 'seconds47.service.TopicService' that could not be found

TopicService interface:

public interface TopicService {

    TopicBean findById(long id);

    TopicBean findByName(String name);

    void saveTopic(TopicBean topicBean);

    void updateTopic(TopicBean topicBean);

    void deleteTopicById(long id);

    List<TopicBean> findAllTopics(); 

    void deleteAllTopics();

    public boolean isTopicExist(TopicBean topicBean);
}

controller:

@RestController
public class topics {

    @Autowired
    private TopicService topicService;

    @RequestMapping(path = "/new_topic2", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public void new_topic() throws Exception {
        System.out.println("new topic JAVA2");
    }
}

Implementation class:

public class TopicServiceImplementation implements TopicService {

    @Autowired
    private TopicService topicService;

    @Autowired
    private TopicRepository topicRepository;

    @Override
    public TopicBean findById(long id) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet."); //To change body of generated methods, choose Tools | Templates.
    }

    @Override
    public TopicBean findByName(String name) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet."); //To change body of generated methods, choose Tools | Templates.
    }

    @Override
    public void saveTopic(TopicBean topicBean) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet."); //To change body of generated methods, choose Tools | Templates.
    }

    @Override
    public void updateTopic(TopicBean topicBean) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet."); //To change body of generated methods, choose Tools | Templates.
    }

    @Override
    public void deleteTopicById(long id) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet."); //To change body of generated methods, choose Tools | Templates.
    }

    @Override
    public List<TopicBean> findAllTopics() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet."); //To change body of generated methods, choose Tools | Templates.
    }

    @Override
    public void deleteAllTopics() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet."); //To change body of generated methods, choose Tools | Templates.
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isTopicExist(TopicBean topicBean) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet."); //To change body of generated methods, choose Tools | Templates.
    }
}

Rest of the classes are defined too. I don't know why its throwing despite declaring componentScan in main class.

Main class:

@SpringBootApplication(exclude = {SecurityAutoConfiguration.class })
@ComponentScan(basePackages = {"seconds47"})
@EnableJpaRepositories("seconds47.repository")
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

I have my packages like this:

seconds47
seconds47.beans
seconds47.config
seconds47.repository
seconds47.restAPI
seconds47.service

Answer 1

You are trying to inject a bean in itself. That's obviously not going to work.

TopicServiceImplementation implements TopicService. That class attempts to autowire (by field!) a `TopicService. So you're essentially asking the context to inject itself.

It looks like you've edited the content of the error message: Field topicService in seconds47.restAPI.topics is not a class. Please be careful if you need to hide sensitive information as it makes it much harder for others to help you.

Back on the actual issue, it looks like injecting TopicService in itself is a glitch on your side.

Answer 2

I resolved by replacing the corrupted jar files.

But to find those corrupted jar files, I have to run my application in three IDE- 1) Intellij Idea 2)NetBeans 3) Eclipse.

Netbeans given me information for maximum number of corrupted jar. In Netbeans along with the run, I use the build option(after right clicking on project) to know more about corrupted jars.

It took me more than 15 hours to find out the root cause for these errors. Hope it help anyone.

Answer 3

You have to update your

scanBasePackages = { "com.exm.java" }

to add the path to your service (after annotating it with @service )

Answer 4

A class must have the @Component annotation or a derivation of that (like @Service, @Repository etc.) to be recognized as a Spring bean by the component scanning. So if you add @Component to the class, it should solve your problem.

Answer 5

Since TopicService is a Service class, you should annotate it with @Service, so that Spring autowires this bean for you. Like so:

@Service
public class TopicServiceImplementation implements TopicService {
    ...
}

This will solve your problem.