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Jacob
Jacob

Reputation: 14731

Spring @Inject service class return null pointer exception

I have a Converter class where I have used the following so that I can use @Inject to access my service class. 

@Named("myMB")
@ViewAccessScoped

However when I tried to use 

myservice.getCategories();

I am getting null pointer exception at this line. What could be the reason for this? I have used the same service method in ManagedBean to populate selectOneMenu, but when used in Converter class, gives me exception.

Converter class

@FacesConverter("categoryConverter")
@Named("myMB")
@ViewAccessScoped
public class CategoryConverter implements Converter {

@Inject
CategoryService myservice;

    @Override
        public Object getAsObject(FacesContext facesContext, UIComponent component,
                String value) {
            System.out.println("reached in converter "+value);
            try {


                    List<Category> cat = myservice.getCategories();
                    for (Category cat : category) {
                        if (cat.getCategoryCode() == value) {
                            return cat;
                        }
                    }
                }

            } catch (Exception e) {
                System.out.println("exception from getAsObject  ");
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return null;
        }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 893

Answers (1)

BalusC
BalusC

Reputation: 1108842

That can happen if you used it as @FacesConverter instance instead of as @Named instance. The @Inject doesn't work on @FacesConverter. Get rid of @FacesConverter to avoid future confusion and reference the converter as converter="#{categoryConverter}" (which uses @Named) instead of as converter="categoryConverter" (which uses @FacesConverter).

Note that I assume that the Spring part is properly configured, otherwise it would be still null. I don't do Spring, so I can't tell form top of head if it works inside a CDI managed bean instead of a Spring managed bean. I find it only surprising and amusing that you're mixing CDI and Spring, while Spring is intented as competitor/alternative to CDI/EJB.

Upvotes: 3

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