Can't Autowire @Repository annotated interface

Question

I'm developing a spring boot application and I'm running into an issue here. I'm trying to inject a @Repository annotated interface and it doesn't seem to work at all. I'm getting this error

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'springBootRunner': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: com.pharmacy.persistence.users.dao.UserEntityDao com.pharmacy.config.SpringBootRunner.userEntityDao; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [com.pharmacy.persistence.users.dao.UserEntityDao] 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)}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:334)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1202)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:537)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:303)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:299)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:755)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:757)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:480)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:118)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:686)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:320)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:957)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:946)
    at com.pharmacy.config.SpringBootRunner.main(SpringBootRunner.java:25)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: com.pharmacy.persistence.users.dao.UserEntityDao com.pharmacy.config.SpringBootRunner.userEntityDao; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [com.pharmacy.persistence.users.dao.UserEntityDao] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:561)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:88)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:331)
    ... 16 common frames omitted
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [com.pharmacy.persistence.users.dao.UserEntityDao] 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)}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoSuchBeanDefinitionException(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1301)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1047)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:942)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:533)
    ... 18 common frames omitted

Here is my code:

Main application class:

package com.pharmacy.config;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;


@SpringBootApplication
@ComponentScan("org.pharmacy")
public class SpringBootRunner {


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

Entity class:

package com.pharmacy.persistence.users;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;



@Entity
public class UserEntity {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    private Long id;
    @Column
    private String name;

}

Repository interface:

package com.pharmacy.persistence.users.dao;

import com.pharmacy.persistence.users.UserEntity;
import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;


@Repository
public interface UserEntityDao extends CrudRepository<UserEntity,Long>{

}

Controller:

package com.pharmacy.controllers;

import com.pharmacy.persistence.users.UserEntity;
import com.pharmacy.persistence.users.dao.UserEntityDao;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;


@RestController
public class HomeController {


    @Autowired
    UserEntityDao userEntityDao;

    @RequestMapping(value = "/")
    public String hello() {
        userEntityDao.save(new UserEntity("ac"));
        return "Test";

    }
}

build.gradle

buildscript {
    ext {
        springBootVersion = '1.2.2.RELEASE'
    }
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}")
    }
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot'
mainClassName = "com.pharmacy.config.SpringBootRunner"
jar {
    baseName = 'demo'
    version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
}


repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}


dependencies {
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa")
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web")
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-ws")
    compile("postgresql:postgresql:9.0-801.jdbc4")

    testCompile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test")
}

application.properties:

spring.view.prefix: /
spring.view.suffix: .html

spring.jpa.database=POSTGRESQL
spring.jpa.show-sql=false
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update


spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.postgresql.Driver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres
spring.datasource.username=postgres
spring.datasource.password=abc123

I even compared my code with Accessing data jpa, and I'm running out of ideas what's wrong with this code. Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

EDITED: I changed my code as suggested to look like above, and I'm not getting that error when I'm injecting my @Repository interface into another component. However, I have a problem now - my component cannot be retrieved (I used debugging). What I'm doing wrong so spring cannot find my component?

Answer 1

Here is the mistake: as someone said before, you are using org.pharmacy insted of com.pharmacy in componentscan

    package **com**.pharmacy.config;

    import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
    import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
    import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;


    @SpringBootApplication
    @ComponentScan("**org**.pharmacy")
    public class SpringBootRunner {

Answer 2

I had a similar problem but with a different cause:

In my case the problem was that in the interface defining the repository

public interface ItemRepository extends Repository {..}

I was omitting the types of the template. Setting them right:

public interface ItemRepository extends Repository<Item,Long> {..}

did the trick.

Answer 3

There is another cause for this type of problem what I would like to share, because I struggle in this problem for some time and I could't find any answer on SO.

In a repository like:

@Repository
public interface UserEntityDao extends CrudRepository<UserEntity, Long>{

}

If your entity UserEntity does not have the @Entity annotation on the class, you will have the same error.

This error is confusing for this case, because you focus on trying to resolve the problem about Spring not found the Repository but the problem is the entity. And if you came to this answer trying to test your Repository, this answer may help you.

Answer 4

When the repository package is different to @SpringBootApplication/@EnableAutoConfiguration, base package of @EnableJpaRepositories is required to be defined explicitly.

Try to add @EnableJpaRepositories("com.pharmacy.persistence.users.dao") to SpringBootRunner