Spring-boot CrudRepository autowiring error

Question

I have the following code structure of my Springboot Application:

I am getting exception of NoSuchBeanDefinitionException for bean UserDao .

Exception Trace :

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [com.matlb.dao.UserDao] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotat`enter code here`ion.Autowired(required=true)}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoSuchBeanDefinitionException(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1373) ~[spring-beans-4.2.5.RELEASE.jar:4.2.5.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1119) ~[spring-beans-4.2.5.RELEASE.jar:4.2.5.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1014) ~[spring-beans-4.2.5.RELEASE.jar:4.2.5.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:545) ~[spring-beans-4.2.5.RELEASE.jar:4.2.5.RELEASE]
    ... 37 common frames omitted

The source code of UserDao.java interface is

package com.matlb.dao;

import com.matlb.domain.User;
import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;

@Repository
public interface UserDao extends CrudRepository<User,Integer>{

    User findByEmail(String email);
}

and I am autowiring it here

package com.matlb.service;

import com.matlb.dao.UserDao;
import com.matlb.domain.User;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

import java.util.List;

@Service
public class UserServiceImpl implements UserService {

    @Autowired
    private UserDao userDao;

    @Override
    public List<User> findAll() {
        return (List<User>) getUserDao().findAll();
    }

    @Override
    public User createUser(String email) {
        User user = new User(email);
        return saveUser(user);
    }

    @Override
    public User findById(Integer userId) {
        return getUserDao().findOne(userId);
    }

    @Override
    public User saveUser(User user) {
        return getUserDao().save(user);
    }

    @Override
    public User findByEmail(String email) {
        return getUserDao().findByEmail(email);
    }

    @Override
    public void delete(Integer userId) {
        getUserDao().delete(userId);
    }

    public UserDao getUserDao() {
        return userDao;
    }
}

Source of Main class

package com.matlb;

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

@SpringBootApplication
public class MatlbApplication {

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

build.gradle

buildscript {
    ext {
        springBootVersion = '1.3.3.RELEASE'
    }
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}")
        classpath("org.springframework:springloaded:1.2.1.RELEASE")
    }
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot' 

jar {
    baseName = 'demo'
    version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
}
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
targetCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}


dependencies {
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-aop')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools")
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa")
    runtime('mysql:mysql-connector-java')
    testCompile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test') 
    testCompile('org.springframework.restdocs:spring-restdocs-mockmvc')
}

idea {
    module {
        inheritOutputDirs = false
        outputDir = file("$buildDir/classes/main/")
    }
}

eclipse {
    classpath {
         containers.remove('org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER')
         containers 'org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.8'
    }
}

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '2.9'
}

Please let me know where I'm doing it wrong . I'm using Intellij as IDE and its showing bean as created when I use the @Repository annotation.

Answer 1

First of all, you need to remove @Repository from your DAO interface. Spring Data JPA will build the implementation and deploy it in the Spring container without the @Repository. It is the @EnableJpaRepository that will give the instruction to String Data Jpa. Spring Boot autoconfiguration will declare the @EnableJpaRepository`for you.

Then, replace CrudRepository by JpaRepository.

Finally, make sure you have declared spring-boot-starter-data-jpa as a maven dependency.

Regards, Daniel