Autowired Repository is Null in Custom Constraint Validator

Question

I have a Spring based webapp. I am using several repository classes with annotations @Repository, @Transactional in my Controllers. That part works fine.

I created a

Answer 1

No luck with LocalValidatorFactoryBean. I have done some hack to solve this problem.

@Component
public class ServiceUtils
{
    private static ServiceUtils instance;

    @Autowired
    private ListableBeanFactory factory;

    @PostConstruct
    public void init()
    {
        instance = this;
    }

    public static ListableBeanFactory getFactory()
    {
        return instance.factory;
    }
}