Can't Autowire ServletContext

Question

I'm new with Spring, and I'm trying to use the @Autowire annotation for the ServletContext with my class attribute:

@Controller public class ServicesImpl implements Services{      @Autowired     ServletContext context; 

I defined the bean for this class in my dispatcher-servlet.xml:

<bean id="services" class="com.xxx.yyy.ServicesImpl" /> 

But when I try to run a JUnit test it gives the following error:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No matching bean of type [javax.servlet.ServletContext] 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)} 

I thought that the ServletContext injection was automatic with spring... How can I solve this?

Thanks!

EDIT: I want to use the servletContext to call the getRealPath() method. Is there any alternative?

Answer 1

Implement the ServletContextAware interface and Spring will inject it for you

@Controller public class ServicesImpl implements Services, ServletContextAware{   private ServletContext context;  public void setServletContext(ServletContext servletContext) {      this.context = servletContext; }