Question

I have a web controller which I configure in the controller-config.xml using

<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:annotation-config />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.ecommerce.web.controller" />

The controller has the @Controller annotation like below.

@Controller
public class HomeController

I have included the @Autowired annotation on the dependencies, but when I first start up the application I am unable to set any properties on the wired objects.

For example, I have a storeProfile object which when in debug mode I see has multiple properties set as it should.
But, when I try to set one of the storeProfile properties on an @Autowried bean it is still null or empty string!?

If you look at the attached images it shows that after I step past the line this.storeProfileContext.setStoreProfile(storeProf ile) the debugger still shows the storeProfile property as null

Actually, there are a couple dependencies which look like they are created (they are not null and the application functions), but I am unable to set anything on these objects.

I asked the same question on the Spring forums too – hoping to get this figured out.

Thanks so much!

Answer 1

That is because you are looking at the fields of the proxy, which gets created when you have <aop:scoped-proxy/>, if you invoke your getter for the set values, you should see the correct values retrieved from the proxied object.