Spring Data JPA returning null repositories

Question

When working with Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA, I'm getting null repositories when @Autowiring.

I may have missed some piece of simple configuration, but after hours looking at it and reviewing the docs I find no flaws. I need antoher pair of eyes to take a fresh look.

Here is the relevant configuration:

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableJpaRepositories
@EnableTransactionManagement
public class ServerApp {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    SpringApplication.run(ServerApp.class, args);
  }
}

A Service using the repository. When executing doSomething() the repository is null.

@Service
@Slf4j
public class MyService{
  @Autowired
  private MyRepository repository;

  @Override
  public AnEntity doSomething(String index) {
    return repository.findOneByIndex(index);
  }
}

The Repository

public interface MyRepository extends   JpaRepository<AnEntity, String> {
  AnEntity findOneByIndex(String index);
}

The Entity

@Entity
@Table(name = "entities")
@Getter
@Setter
@ToString
public class AnEntity implements Serializable{
  private static final long serialVersionUID = -6256451671609986911L;
  @Id
  @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
  private Long id;
  private String index;
  private String data;
}

The persistence.xml file

<persistence
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd"
    version="2.0">
<persistence-unit name="default">
    <provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>
    <class>com.myapp.AnEntity</class>
    <properties>
        <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
        <property name="javax.persistence.transactionType" value="RESOURCE_LOCAL" />
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="org.postgresql.Driver" />
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/authServer" />
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="user" />
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="password" />
        <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect" />
    </properties>
</persistence-unit>

The POM

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.myapp</groupId>
<artifactId>myapp</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<packaging>pom</packaging>

<properties>
    <java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.7.RELEASE</version>
</parent>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.plugin</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-plugin-core</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.0.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
        <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
        <version>9.4-1201-jdbc41</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.logstash.logback</groupId>
        <artifactId>logstash-logback-encoder</artifactId>
        <version>4.5.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
        <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
        <version>1.16.6</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>4.12</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
        <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.0</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>br.com.six2six</groupId>
        <artifactId>fixture-factory</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.0</version>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>log4j</groupId>
                <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

Answer 1

Eventually, I had an error in the code where the service was being instantiated explicitly, using new, instead of relying on Spring's CDI. Hence, the @Autowire in of the Repository in the Service was not being processed by Spring.

WRONG

//explicit instantiation. Spring not in charge so no repo injected
setService(new MyService());

RIGHT

//Spring CDI takes charge and autowires the Service and it's dependencies
@Autowired
private MyService myService;

public void someMethod(){
  setService(myService);
}

Answer 2

Change your MyRepository class as follows:

public interface MyRepository extends   JpaRepository<AnEntity, Long> {
    public AnEntity findOneByData(String data);
    public AnEntity findOneByIndex(String index);
}