UnserializableDependencyException: WELD-001413: The bean declares a passivating scope but has a non-passivation-capable dependency

Question

I have the below CDI managed bean:

@Named
@SessionScoped
public class InfoPageController implements Serializable {

    @Inject
    private InfoPageMapper mapper;

}

It throws the below exception during deployment to GlassFish 4.1:

Exception while loading the app : CDI deployment failure:WELD-001413: The bean Managed Bean [class de.triaconsulting.cashyourgame.fe.controller.InfoPageController] with qualifiers [@Default @Any @Named] declares a passivating scope but has a non-passivation-capable dependency Managed Bean [class de.triaconsulting.cashyourgame.fe.mapper.InfoPageMapper] with qualifiers [@Any @Default]
org.jboss.weld.exceptions.UnserializableDependencyException: WELD-001413: The bean Managed Bean [class de.triaconsulting.cashyourgame.fe.controller.InfoPageController] with qualifiers [@Default @Any @Named] declares a passivating scope but has a non-passivation-capable dependency Managed Bean [class de.triaconsulting.cashyourgame.fe.mapper.InfoPageMapper] with qualifiers [@Any @Default]
    at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.Validator.validateInjectionPointPassivationCapable(Validator.java:477)
    at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.Validator.validateInjectionPointForDeploymentProblems(Validator.java:395)
    at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.Validator.validateInjectionPoint(Validator.java:291)
    at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.Validator.validateGeneralBean(Validator.java:134)
    at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.Validator.validateRIBean(Validator.java:165)
    at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.Validator.validateBean(Validator.java:529)
    at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.Validator.validateBeans(Validator.java:515)
    at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.Validator.validateDeployment(Validator.java:490)
    at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldStartup.validateBeans(WeldStartup.java:419)
    at org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldBootstrap.validateBeans(WeldBootstrap.java:90)
    at org.glassfish.weld.WeldDeployer.event(WeldDeployer.java:225)
    at org.glassfish.kernel.event.EventsImpl.send(EventsImpl.java:131)
    at org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.load(ApplicationInfo.java:328)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:496)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:219)
    at org.glassfish.deployment.admin.DeployCommand.execute(DeployCommand.java:491)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$2$1.run(CommandRunnerImpl.java:539)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$2$1.run(CommandRunnerImpl.java:535)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:356)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$2.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:534)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$3.run(CommandRunnerImpl.java:565)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$3.run(CommandRunnerImpl.java:557)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:356)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:556)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1464)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.access$1300(CommandRunnerImpl.java:109)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1846)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1722)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.doCommand(AdminAdapter.java:534)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.onMissingResource(AdminAdapter.java:224)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.StaticHttpHandlerBase.service(StaticHttpHandlerBase.java:189)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper$HttpHandlerCallable.call(ContainerMapper.java:459)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:167)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.runService(HttpHandler.java:201)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.doHandle(HttpHandler.java:175)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpServerFilter.handleRead(HttpServerFilter.java:235)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.ExecutorResolver$9.execute(ExecutorResolver.java:119)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeFilter(DefaultFilterChain.java:284)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeChainPart(DefaultFilterChain.java:201)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.execute(DefaultFilterChain.java:133)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.process(DefaultFilterChain.java:112)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.ProcessorExecutor.execute(ProcessorExecutor.java:77)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.nio.transport.TCPNIOTransport.fireIOEvent(TCPNIOTransport.java:561)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.AbstractIOStrategy.fireIOEvent(AbstractIOStrategy.java:112)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.run0(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:117)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.access$100(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:56)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy$WorkerThreadRunnable.run(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:137)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:565)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:545)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

How is this caused and how can I solve it?

Answer 1

The solution first, followed by an explanation:

The simplest you can do is mark the field InfoPageMapper mapper in InfoPageController as transient:

@Named
@SessionScoped
public class InfoPageController implements Serializable {

    @Inject
    transient private InfoPageMapper mapper;

And now the explanation:

The error message states this in readable language:

The bean InfoPageController, which is SessionScoped, must be serializable, but it requires InfoPageMapper, which is not serializable nor transient - it is not possible to determine how to serialize InfoPageController.

In CDI, there are some scopes (most often SessionScope) which require beans to be Serializable - mostly because they are somehow connected to HTTP Session, which can contain more objects that fit into memory and from time to time the server may need to swap them to disk.

It seems you got this because InfoPageController implements Serializable. But this is not enough according to Java serialization principles. You need to ensure that all member fields of your Serializable class are one of: - primitive type (int, boolean) - an object that is serializable (all serialization rules apply recursively) - the field is marked with keyword transient (which is placed at the same level as e.g. private keyword)

The trick with CDI is that you may mark all injected fields as transient, because they are injected again when the object is deserialized from disk into memory. Therefore you will not loose the transient object which would otherwise be null when deserialized, because it was not stored to disk previously.

Another solution is to make the injected bean InfoPageMapper serializable too. But then the problem may repeat recursively with fields injected into InfoPageMapper. Transient keyword solves your problem where it happens and does not force other benas to be serializable if they don't need to be.