I have a standard rest-api spring-boot application.
Controller with injected service
@RestController
@RequestMapping("/foo")
@AllArgsConstructor
public class SomeController {
private final SomeService someService;
public void someMethod(){
someService.toDoSomething();
}
}
and service with injected other beans
@Setter
public class SomeService {
private AnotherVeryImportantBean anotherVeryImportantBean;
private RestTemplateBuilder restTemplate;
public void toDoSomething() {
anotherVeryImportantBean.someAction();
}
In my case, the bean AnotherVeryImportantBean is created in another dependency, which I connect to the spring-boot application. Whether to create a bean or not is decided by a variable in the application.yml file.
like this:
another.service.enabled: true
Of course I have config class for service
@Configuration
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public class SomeConfig {
private final AnotherVeryImportantBean anotherVeryImportantBean;
@Bean
public SomeService someService(RestTemplateBuilder restTemplate) {
SomeService foo = new SomeService();
foo.setAnotherVeryImportantBean(anotherVeryImportantBean);
foo.setRestTemplate(restTemplate);
return foo;
}
The problem is that this controller and service are not the only ones in the application. I would like the application not to crash completely if this particular controller and service are not formed. If the bean is not created for some reason, I just don't use that functionality (this controller).
At this point, the application crashes because AnotherService cannot be injected into someService (In case where, for some reason, it was not created).
I tried adding an annotation to config class
@ConditionalOnBean(AnotherVeryImportantBean.class)
like this:
@ConditionalOnBean(AnotherVeryImportantBean.class)
@Configuration
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public class SomeConfig {
private AnotherVeryImportantBean anotherVeryImportantBean;
@Bean
public SomeService someService(RestTemplateBuilder restTemplate) {
SomeService foo = new SomeService();
foo.setAnotherVeryImportantBean(anotherVeryImportantBean);
foo.setRestTemplate(restTemplate);
return foo;
}
But the problem is that conditional in SomeConfig checks if the bean is in the container before it is created.
How can I handle an error when a bean cannot inject another dependency into itself?
