intellij incorrectly saying no beans of type found for autowired repository

Question

I have created a simple unit test but IntelliJ is incorrectly highlighting it red. marking it as an error

No beans?

Answer 1

Sometimes you are required to indicate where @ComponentScan should scan for components. You can do so by passing the packages as parameter of this annotation, e.g:

@ComponentScan(basePackages={"path.to.my.components","path.to.my.othercomponents"})

However, as already mentioned, @SpringBootApplication annotation replaces @ComponentScan, hence in such cases you must do the same:

@SpringBootApplication(scanBasePackages={"path.to.my.components","path.to.my.othercomponents"})

At least in my case, Intellij stopped complaining.