Why is Spring @Value incompatible with @Controller?

Question

I\'m looking for a better understanding of this problem. A workaround is pretty simple, namely move the configuration data to another class that does not have proxies/advic

Answer 1

I had the same problem and it was the fact that I needed BOTH

To get these two senarios to work

1. inject an attribute (via @Value) into a Controller
2. Inject a managed bean (via @Inject) that hasan attribute (via @Value) into the Controller

I hope this helps.

Here is the web.xml.

    
    spring
    
        org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    
    
        contextConfigLocation
        classpath:/spring-config/spring-servlet.xml
    
    1



    spring
    /

Here is spring-servlet.xml: The key was to have BOTH util:properties and context:property-placeholder. Although they locate the same file, they serve different purposes.

Here is a snippet of my controller class:

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/fooController")
public class MyController {

@Value("${message1}")
public String message1;

@Inject
public ConfigProperties configProperties;

Lastly, here is my class that I inject the property into:

@Service
public class ConfigProperties {

@Value("${message1}")
public String message1;
}

That worked for me and will work for you. Good Luck!