Getting null pointer exception while trying to cal

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I have a java spring mvc web application which use Spring 3.2 and Tomcat 8. I use quartz 2.2 to schedule a task. My controller class is:

@Controller
public class StatusController  implements Job
{
    @Autowired
    WebContentDefinitionService webContentDefinitionService;


    public void execute(JobExecutionContext arg0) throws JobExecutionException 
    {
         System.out.println("Starting Job");
        try 
        {
            webContentDefinitionService.deletePurgedContents();
            webContentDefinitionService.moveContentsToPurged();

        }
        catch (Exception e) 
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
         System.out.println("Executed Job");

    }

}

and I have a QuartzInitializer class as follows:

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebListener;

import org.quartz.CronScheduleBuilder;
import org.quartz.JobBuilder;
import org.quartz.JobDetail;
import org.quartz.Scheduler;
import org.quartz.Trigger;
import org.quartz.TriggerBuilder;
import org.quartz.ee.servlet.QuartzInitializerListener;
import org.quartz.impl.StdSchedulerFactory;

@WebListener
public class QuartzListener extends QuartzInitializerListener {

    @Override
    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {
        super.contextInitialized(sce);
        ServletContext ctx = sce.getServletContext();
        StdSchedulerFactory factory = (StdSchedulerFactory) ctx.getAttribute(QUARTZ_FACTORY_KEY);
        try {
            Scheduler scheduler = factory.getScheduler();
            JobDetail jobDetail = JobBuilder.newJob(StatusController.class).build();
            Trigger trigger = TriggerBuilder.newTrigger().withIdentity("simple").withSchedule(
                    CronScheduleBuilder.cronSchedule("0 0/5 * * * ?")).startNow().build();
            scheduler.scheduleJob(jobDetail, trigger);
            scheduler.start();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            ctx.log("There was an error scheduling the job.", e);
        }
    }

}

If I only use the print statements in my controller class, they get printed in the console without any issue the the specified time. But when I try to call a method from any of my service classes, a null pointer exception is thrown. The methods which I call from the service classes are infact not at all getting accessed from the controller class , which I have confirmed using debug mode. And those methods are working fine elsewhere.

My porm.xml file is:

<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 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>test</groupId>
    <artifactId>BasicQuartz</artifactId>
    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

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

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.quartz-scheduler</groupId>
            <artifactId>quartz</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.quartz-scheduler</groupId>
            <artifactId>quartz-jobs</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
            <artifactId>jta</artifactId>
            <version>1.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.5</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.0.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.5</source>
                    <target>1.5</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

I am not sure why I am unable to access the service class methods. Is it because I am missing some anotations??

Answer 1

Try adding SpringBeanAutowiringSupport.processInjectionBasedOnCurrentContext(this); in your

public void execute(JobExecutionContext arg0) throws JobExecutionException

This should work.