spring - Using a request scoped bean outside of an actual web request

Question

I have a web application that has a Spring Integration logic running with it in a separated thread. The problem is that at some point my Spring Integration logic tries to use a request scoped bean and then i get the following errors:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'scopedTarget.tenantContext': Scope 'request' is not active for the current thread; consider defining a scoped proxy for this bean if you intend to refer to it from a singleton; nested exception is 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.


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.

I have the ContextLoaderListener set:

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

My Scoped Bean is annotated like that(since I heard that proxing my bean would help):

@Component
@Scope(value = "request", proxyMode = ScopedProxyMode.TARGET_CLASS)  
public class TenantContext  implements Serializable {

Is what I'm doing possible? If yes, what am I missing here? If no, any other suggestions on how I can achieve that?

Answer 1

For Spring 4 Frameworks add servletContext.addListener(new RequestContextListener());

public class WebApplicationInitializer extends AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer {
    @Override
    protected Class<?>[] getRootConfigClasses() {
        return new Class[] { RootConfiguration.class };
    }

    @Override
    protected Class<?>[] getServletConfigClasses() {
        return new Class[] { WebMvcConfiguration.class };
    }

    @Override
    protected String[] getServletMappings() {
        return new String[] { "/" };
    }

    @Override
    protected Filter[] getServletFilters() {
        return new Filter[] { new HiddenHttpMethodFilter() };
    }

    **@Override
    public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {
        super.onStartup(servletContext);
        servletContext.addListener(new RequestContextListener());
    }**
}