Spring Session without additional context initialization?

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I'm trying to use the recently released Spring Session library to do external session management in Redis. I'm using this guide. When I try to start my server, I get this error:

SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot initialize context because there is already a root application context present - check whether you have multiple ContextLoader* definitions in your web.xml!

I assume this is because my webapp already has code for context initialization. I would prefer to leave that code as is. Is there some way to achieve the result of that tutorial without having to do an additional context initialization? It doesn't really seem like it should be necessary if I can add the springSessionRepositoryFilter bean and corresponding filter object myself, but I don't know how the Spring Session code does that internally.

Samir · Answer 1 · 2017-02-07T20:07:30.023

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With Spring Boot application it does not need using initializer classes as spring offical reference: http://docs.spring.io/spring-session/docs/current-SNAPSHOT/reference/html5/guides/boot.html .

Also using spring security you can check below spring tutorial: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-session/tree/master/samples/javaconfig/security/src/main/java/sample

import org.springframework.session.web.context.AbstractHttpSessionApplicationInitializer;


public class Initializer extends AbstractHttpSessionApplicationInitializer {

}

If you want to configure with maven instead of gradle you can check my answer in comment. Hope it helps!

edited Feb 07 '17 at 20:07

answered Feb 07 '17 at 19:50

Samir

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If you want you can check my answer related configure Redis with Spring session http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41777267/how-can-i-get-currently-authenticated-user-principal-with-spring-security-and-re/42097931#42097931 – Samir Feb 07 '17 at 19:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '15 at 18:45

The changes you need to make to your existing initializer should be minimal. First, it probably implements WebApplicationInitializer currently and this should be changed to extend AbstractHttpSessionApplicationInitializer. Second, in your onStartup method, add super.onStartup(servletContext) after your existing initialization code.

public class Initializer extends AbstractHttpSessionApplicationInitializer
{
    @Override
    public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException
    {
        // existing code

        super.onStartup(servletContext);
    }
}

I know you were not wanting to change your initializer, but this is a very minimal approach to make it work.

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