I've a session scoped bean:
@Named
@SessionScoped
public class SessionBean implements Serializable {
private String someProperty;
public String getSomeProperty() {
return someProperty;
}
}
I'd like to inject this in a request scoped bean and initialize with it:
@Named
@RequestScoped
public class RequestBean {
@Inject
private SessionBean sessionBean;
public RequestBean() {
System.out.println(sessionBean.getProperty());
}
}
However, it throws the following exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.example.RequestBean.<init>(RequestBean.java:42)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
at org.jboss.weld.introspector.jlr.WeldConstructorImpl.newInstance(WeldConstructorImpl.java:206)
at org.jboss.weld.injection.ConstructorInjectionPoint.newInstance(ConstructorInjectionPoint.java:117)
at org.jboss.weld.bean.ManagedBean.createInstance(ManagedBean.java:336)
at org.jboss.weld.bean.ManagedBean$ManagedBeanInjectionTarget.produce(ManagedBean.java:200)
at org.jboss.weld.bean.ManagedBean.create(ManagedBean.java:292)
...
How is this caused and how can I solve it?
You're expecting that the injected dependency is available before the bean is constructed. You're expecting that it works like this:
RequestBean requestBean;
requestBean.sessionBean = sessionBean; // Injection.
requestBean = new RequestBean(); // Constructor invoked.
This is however not true and technically impossible. The dependencies are injected after construction.
RequestBean requestBean;
requestBean = new RequestBean(); // Constructor invoked.
requestBean.sessionBean = sessionBean; // Injection.
You should be using a @PostConstruct
method instead if you intend to perform business logic based on injected dependencies directly after bean's construction.
Remove the constructor and add this method:
@PostConstruct
public void init() {
System.out.println(sessionBean.getSomeProperty());
}