Question

I have a spring mvc application which make massive use of beans which are defined in a
request scope. Now I have to use a part of this application outside of this scope (in a
qwertz job in the Magnolia CMS). This doesn’t work of course:

Error creating bean with name ‘requestHelper’: Scope ‘request’ is
not active for the current thread

I can’t change the scope of the beans and I can’t change the code. So my only possibility
seems to change the scope of the current thread to a request scope mockup.

I tried something like

XmlWebApplicationContext context = (XmlWebApplicationContext) ApplicationContextProvider.getApplicationContext() ;
   MockServletContext mockServletContext = new MockServletContext("/");
   context.setServletContext(mockServletContext);
   context.refresh();

But this still doesn’t activate the request scope in the current thread. How can I achieve
this?

Answer 1

Request scope can be activated as follows:

RequestContextHolder.setRequestAttributes(
    new ServletRequestAttributes(new MockHttpServletRequest()));     

...

((ServletRequestAttributes) RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes())
    .requestCompleted();
RequestContextHolder.resetRequestAttributes(); 

Thoguh I think it’s not a good idea to use such a hack in production code.