Constructor required a bean type that could not be found

Question

I'm currently following a course on Spring Boot and making a Reddit clone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKlTBBuc32c

During the course, we have a service that uses Mapstruc to map a DTO.

My issue is that when I try to inject the mapper into the service, Spring cannot find the class and gives error:

Parameter 1 of constructor in com.subreddit.service.SubredditService required a bean of type 'com.subreddit.mapper.SubredditMapper' that could not be found.

Consider defining a bean of type 'com.subreddit.mapper.SubredditMapper' in your configuration.

Here is the service:

package com.subreddit.service;

import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;

import java.util.List;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;

import com.subreddit.dto.SubredditDto;
import com.subreddit.exceptions.SpringRedditException;
import com.subreddit.mapper.SubredditMapper;
import com.subreddit.model.Subreddit;
import com.subreddit.repository.SubredditRepository;

import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

@Service
@AllArgsConstructor
@Slf4j

public class SubredditService {
private final SubredditRepository subredditRepository;
private SubredditMapper subredditMapper;

@Transactional
public SubredditDto save(SubredditDto subredditDto) {
    Subreddit save = subredditRepository.save(subredditMapper.mapDtoToSubreddit(subredditDto));
    subredditDto.setId(save.getId());
    return subredditDto;
}

@Transactional(readOnly = true)
public List<SubredditDto> getAll() {
    return subredditRepository.findAll()
            .stream()
            .map(subredditMapper::mapSubredditToDto)
            .collect(toList());
}

public SubredditDto getSubreddit(Long id) {
    Subreddit subreddit = subredditRepository.findById(id)
            .orElseThrow(() -> new SpringRedditException("No subreddit found with ID - " + id));
    return subredditMapper.mapSubredditToDto(subreddit);
}
}

Here is the mapper:

package com.subreddit.mapper;

import java.util.List;

import org.mapstruct.InheritInverseConfiguration;
import org.mapstruct.Mapper;
import org.mapstruct.Mapping;

import com.subreddit.dto.SubredditDto;
import com.subreddit.model.Post;
import com.subreddit.model.Subreddit;

import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;


@Mapper(componentModel = "spring")
public interface SubredditMapper {

    @Mapping(target = "numberOfPosts", expression = "java(mapPosts(subreddit.getPosts()))")
    SubredditDto mapSubredditToDto(Subreddit subreddit);

    default Integer mapPosts(List<Post> numberOfPosts) {
        return numberOfPosts.size();
    }

    @InheritInverseConfiguration
    @Mapping(target = "posts", ignore = true)
    Subreddit mapDtoToSubreddit(SubredditDto subredditDto);
}

Answer 1

I saw their code. It's working. You didn't follow the steps well.

Take their code from here. Compare what have you done wrong.

Possible issue : The problem is with the package name. @ComponentScan is not able to register the bean from that package as you are unknowingly sending wrong package name.