Spring request scope error : No thread-bound request found

By mkyong | Updated: August 29, 2012

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Tags: spring

Problem

Developing web application with Spring, make a bean with scope of “request“.

@Component
@Scope("request")
public class PaymentService {

	@Autowired
	UserBo userBo; 
	//...

But hit following error message?

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No thread-bound request found: 
	Are you referring to request attributes outside of an actual web request, 
	or processing a request outside of the originally receiving thread? 
	If you are actually operating within a web request and still receive this message, 
	your code is probably running outside of DispatcherServlet/DispatcherPortlet: 
	In this case, 
        use RequestContextListener or RequestContextFilter to expose the current request.
	//... 28 more

Solution

To fix it, register a RequestContextListener listener in web.xml file.

File : web.xml

<web-app ...>
   <listener>
	<listener-class>
		org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener
	</listener-class>
   </listener>
</web-app>