Spring Validation and Constructors

[Jabberz]

I noticed that a recent checkout of the Spring PetClinic Samples application has an error in STS, specifically it complains in the Spring validation on line 72 of applicationContext-hibernate.xml that clinic bean, of type org.springframework.samples.petclniic.hibernate.Hi bernateClinic does not have a constructor with 0 arguments. In fact, that file has no constructors. Amazingly enough, STS will 'quick fix' this and add a stub constructor that removes the error and allows the project to run without problems.

I haven't noticed on prior versions of STS -- perhaps the Validator logic doesn't think java.lang.Objecte's empty constructor counts?

Platform is Ubuntu 9.10, Java 1.6.0_16-b01, STS 2.3.0.RELEASE, check out of petclinic as of 1am 12-30-09.

[Christian Dupuis]

Jabberz,

In order to make sure I'll use the same PetClinic as you, can you post the SVN URL you are using to generate this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Christian

[Jabberz]

The URL is:

https://src.springframework.org/svn/...etclinic/trunk

The version of the file is 175, last updated by 'cleau' on Wed Nov 25 13:45:52 EST 2009.

[Christian Dupuis]

Thanks for providing the details.

You are seeing the same error as reported in the following JIRA:

IDE-1042: @Autowired-constructor not recognized correctly
http://jira.springframework.org/browse/IDE-1042

In my version of petclinic the HibernateClinic implementation has the following constructor:

@Autowired
public HibernateClinic(SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
	this.sessionFactory = sessionFactory;
}

This constructor is not detected by the validation logic.

Christian

[Jabberz]

Ah for some reason missed seeing that constructor while I was paging through the file. Nevertheless, the spring valdiator misses it on mine as well.