Abstract Class and MessageSource

[Ben_Leedham]

Hi,

I wanted to have an abstract controller that my other controllers extended, just to set up service objects and logging and such. My service objects are autowired fine and logging works, I am having a problem with the MessageSource though.

my message source is defined in my application context like this:

    <bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">   
        <property name="basenames">
       		<list>
         		<value>messages</value>
         	</list>
         </property>  
    </bean>

My abstract controller does this:

	@Autowired
	protected MessageSource messageSource;

        ...

	public MessageSource getMessageSource() {
		return messageSource;
	}

	public void setMessageSource(MessageSource messageSource) {
		this.messageSource = messageSource;		
	}

and my extending controller does this:

messageSource.getMessage("login.title", null, "My Page Title", null);

When trying to run it I get a NullPointer exception on the messageSource line in my extending controller.

I do have a login.title in my messages.properties.

Can anyone see my problem? Cheers.

[Ben_Leedham]

Sorry, it was my unit tests failing and I wasn't correctly injecting my MessageSource into them. Please ignore this, it isn't a problem.