Using @Resource for Geode region after @EnableClusterDefinedRegions

Question

My spring boot data geode @Controller endpoint sets up an rsocket response which @Autowired a service class from another package:

@Controller
public class RSocketController {
    private static final Logger log = LogManager.getLogger(RSocketController.class);

    @Autowired
    MyService myService;

The myService class contains @Resource regions which were setup by @EnableClusterDefinedRegions from a Geode cluster.

@Resource
private Region<String, Request> request;

When an rsocket request is sent to the endpoint the @Autowired service gives an error:

org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'request' available

I have some domain objects decorated with @Region that I also decorated with @Controller and @Configuration and these gave errors like:

Bean named 'request' is expected to be of type 'org.apache.geode.cache.Region' but was actually of type 'region.request'

and

Bean named 'request' is expected to be of type org.apache.geode.cache.Region but was actually of type region.request$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$5e6b7dd1

When I turned on debug logs I see that the @EnableClusterDefinedRegions has somehow not triggered and therefore not setup the request region from the Geode cluster. Aaargh.

Answer 1

The problem resolved by adding @Component annotation to the @EnableClusterDefinedRegions class which was then seen by Spring Boot bean collector.