I use the following components in my REST project:
- Spring MVC: 4.1.2.RELEASE (latest version)
- Hibernate4 Object Mapper: 2.4.3 (last)
- Swagger: 0.9.1 (last)
- Javaee-web-api: 7.0 (servlet 3.1)
I am using an XML-based bean configuration and I was able to get the basic setup using Swagger and use the following command in the Spring XML configuration file:
<mvc:annotation-driven/> <bean class="com.mangofactory.swagger.configuration.SpringSwaggerConfig" />
Then I cloned the Swagger-UI GIT repository from https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-ui and copied the dist folder to the my / webapp / docs folder. After that, I was able to use the JS-based user interface at the following URL:
http:
The problem is that none of the try it out buttons worked, which can be used to interact directly with your REST API using JSON. The reason it doesn't work is because it did not accept the correct base url to talk to my controllers:
http://localhost:9090/rest/addresses (actual controller location) http://localhost:9090/addresses (swagger attempt to talk to the API)
After some research on the Internet, I found out that it is probably better to use a more flexible approach using SwaggerSpringMvcPlugin, as described in https://github.com/martypitt/swagger-springmvc .
This is my configuration file> :
@Configuration @EnableSwagger public class MySwaggerConfig { private SpringSwaggerConfig springSwaggerConfig; @Autowired public void setSpringSwaggerConfig(SpringSwaggerConfig springSwaggerConfig) { this.springSwaggerConfig = springSwaggerConfig; } @Bean public SwaggerSpringMvcPlugin customImplementation(){ return new SwaggerSpringMvcPlugin(this.springSwaggerConfig) .includePatterns(".*"); } }
This is my full Spring mvc xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd"> <context:component-scan base-package="be.exampley.backend.web.rest"/> <bean id="hibernateAwareObjectMapper" class="be.example.backend.util.HibernateAwareObjectMapper"/> <mvc:annotation-driven> <mvc:message-converters> <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter" p:prettyPrint="true" p:supportedMediaTypes-ref="supportedMediaTypes" p:objectMapper-ref="hibernateAwareObjectMapper"/> </mvc:message-converters> </mvc:annotation-driven> <util:list id="supportedMediaTypes"> <value>application/json</value> <value>text/plain</value> </util:list> <context:annotation-config/> <mvc:default-servlet-handler/> <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:swagger.properties"/> <bean name="swaggerConfig" class="be.example.backend.configuration.MySwaggerConfig"/> </beans>
Output the appropriate section from my web.xml file :
<servlet> <servlet-name>restServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>WEB-INF/spring/mvc-rest-config.xml</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>restServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
This is my swagger.properties file, which for some reason is not taken into account.
documentation.services.basePath=/rest/ documentation.services.version=2.0
In the stack that I get during application launch:
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'mySwaggerConfig': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire method: public void be.example.backend.configuration.MySwaggerConfig.setSpringSwaggerConfig(com.mangofactory.swagger.configuration.SpringSwaggerConfig); nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'com.mangofactory.swagger.configuration.SpringSwaggerConfig': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private java.util.List com.mangofactory.swagger.configuration.SpringSwaggerConfig.handlerMappings; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping] found for dependency [collection of org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping]: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)} at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:334) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1204) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:538) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:229) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:298) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:725) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:757) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:480) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:403) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:306) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:106) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ContextHandler.java:798) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ServletContextHandler.java:444) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:789) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.startContext(ServletContextHandler.java:294) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startWebapp(WebAppContext.java:1341) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1334) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:741) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:497) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:114) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:61) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:163) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:114) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:61) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.start(Server.java:387) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:114) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:61) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:354) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.runner.Runner.run(Runner.java:509) at org.eclipse.jetty.runner.Runner.main(Runner.java:557) ... Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping] found for dependency [collection of org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping]: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)} at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoSuchBeanDefinitionException(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1261) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:961) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:904) at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:527) at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:87) at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:331) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1204) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:538) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:229) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:298) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.findAutowireCandidates(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1081) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1006) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:904) at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredMethodElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:600) at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:87) at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:331) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1204) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:538) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:229) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:298) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:725) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:757) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:480) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:403) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:306) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:106) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ContextHandler.java:798) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.callContextInitialized(ServletContextHandler.java:444) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:789) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.startContext(ServletContextHandler.java:294) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startWebapp(WebAppContext.java:1341) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1334) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:741) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:497) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:114) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:61) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:163) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:114) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:61) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.start(Server.java:387) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:114) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:61) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:354) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.runner.Runner.run(Runner.java:509) at org.eclipse.jetty.runner.Runner.main(Runner.java:557)
I read somewhere that No qualifying bean is of type org ... RequestMappingHandlerMapping trace suggests that I can skip mvc: annotation-driven in my XML, but this is not the case.
I searched for several hours to find a solution, but still failed. The fact that in it the basic configuration (using SpringSwaggerConfig ) works 90% (except for the try button), makes me not want to give up shook. It really seems very cool and is a good way to document your API.
So, if someone can help me with this, I will be very grateful. Swagger rock!
Regards, Bart