The field annotated @Autowired is null because Spring doesn't know about the copy of MileageFeeCalculator that you created with new and didn't know to autowire it.
The Spring Inversion of Control (IoC) container has three main logical components: a registry (called the ApplicationContext) of components (beans) that are available to be used by the application, a configurer system that injects objects' dependencies into them by matching up the dependencies with beans in the context, and a dependency solver that can look at a configuration of many different beans and determine how to instantiate and configure them in the necessary order.
The IoC container isn't magic, and it has no way of knowing about Java objects unless you somehow inform it of them. When you call new, the JVM instantiates a copy of the new object and hands it straight to you--it never goes through the configuration process. There are three ways that you can get your beans configured.
Check this sample example
public class MileageFeeController {
@Autowired
private MileageFeeCalculator calc;
@RequestMapping("/mileage/{miles}")
@ResponseBody
public float mileageFee(@PathVariable int miles) {
return calc.mileageCharge(miles);
}
}
That should do your job!
Enroll in Spring Framework Course online to learn more about it.
Thanks!
