Scope session is not active for the current thread IllegalStateException No thread-bound request found

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I have a controller that I d like to be unique per session  According to the spring documentation there are two details to the implementation   1  Initial web configuration     To support the scoping of beans at the request  session  and global session levels  web-scoped beans   some minor initial configuration is required before you define your beans    I ve added the following to my web xml as shown in the documentation    lt listener gt     lt listener-class gt      org springframework web context request RequestContextListener    lt  listener-class gt   lt  listener gt    2  Scoped beans as dependencies     If you want to inject  for example  an HTTP request scoped bean into another bean  you must inject an AOP proxy in place of the scoped bean    I ve annotated the bean with  Scope providing the proxyMode as shown below    Controller  Scope value  session   proxyMode ScopedProxyMode TARGET CLASS  public class ReportBuilder implements Serializable                       Problem  In spite of the above configuration  I get the following exception      org springframework beans factory BeanCreationException  Error creating bean with name  scopedTarget reportBuilder   Scope  session  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    Update 1  Below is my component scan  I have the following in web xml    lt context-param gt     lt param-name gt contextClass lt  param-name gt     lt param-value gt      org springframework web context support AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext    lt  param-value gt   lt  context-param gt    lt context-param gt     lt param-name gt contextConfigLocation lt  param-name gt     lt param-value gt org example AppConfig lt  param-value gt   lt  context-param gt    lt listener gt     lt listener-class gt org springframework web context ContextLoaderListener lt  listener-class gt   lt  listener gt    And the following in AppConfig java    Configuration  EnableAsync  EnableCaching  ComponentScan  org example    ImportResource  classpath applicationContext xml   public class AppConfig implements AsyncConfigurer                   Update 2  I ve created a reproducible test case  This is a much smaller project  so there are differences  but the same error happens  There s quite a few files  so I ve uploaded it as a tar gz to megafileupload

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As per documentation      If you are accessing scoped beans within Spring Web MVC  i e  within a request that is processed by the Spring DispatcherServlet  or DispatcherPortlet  then no special setup is necessary  DispatcherServlet and DispatcherPortlet already expose all relevant state    If you are runnning outside of Spring MVC   Not processed by DispatchServlet  you have to use the RequestContextListener Not just ContextLoaderListener    Add the following in your web xml       lt listener gt               lt listener-class gt                      org springframework web context request RequestContextListener               lt  listener-class gt       lt  listener gt            That will provide session to Spring in order to maintain the beans in that scope  Update        As per other answers   the  Controller only sensible when you are with in Spring MVC Context  So the  Controller is not serving actual purpose in your code  Still you can inject your beans into any where with session scope   request scope   you don t need Spring MVC   Controller to just inject beans in particular scope      Update       RequestContextListener exposes the request to the current Thread only   You have autowired ReportBuilder in two places   1  ReportPage -  You can see Spring injected the Report builder properly here  because we are still in Same web Thread  i did changed the order of your code to make sure the ReportBuilder injected in ReportPage like this   log info  ReportBuilder name       reportBuilder getName     reportController getReportData      i knew the log should go after as per your logic   just for debug purpose i added     2  UselessTasklet - We got exception   here because this is different thread created by Spring Batch   where the Request is not exposed by RequestContextListener     You should have different logic to create and inject ReportBuilder instance to Spring Batch   May Spring Batch Parameters and using Future lt ReportBuilder gt  you can return for future reference

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Had the same error when I had  Order annotation on a filter class  Even thou I added the filter through the HttpSecurity chain  Removed the  Order and it worked

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If anyone else stuck on same point  following solved my problem   In web xml    lt listener gt               lt listener-class gt                      org springframework web context request RequestContextListener               lt  listener-class gt     lt  listener gt    In Session component   Component  Scope value    session    proxyMode   ScopedProxyMode TARGET CLASS    In pom xml       lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt cglib lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt cglib lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt 3 1 lt  version gt       lt  dependency gt

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I m answering my own question because it provides a better overview of the cause and possible solutions  I ve awarded the bonus to  Martin because he pin pointed the cause   Cause  As suggested by  Martin the cause is the use of multiple threads  The request object is not available in these threads  as mentioned in the Spring Guide      DispatcherServlet  RequestContextListener and RequestContextFilter all do exactly the same thing  namely bind the HTTP request object to the Thread that is servicing that request  This makes beans that are request- and session-scoped available further down the call chain    Solution 1  It is possible to make the request object available to other threads  but it places a couple of limitations on the system  which may not be workable in all projects  I got this solution from Accessing request scoped beans in a multi-threaded web application      I managed to get around this issue  I started using SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor instead of WorkManagerTaskExecutor   ThreadPoolExecutorFactoryBean  The benefit is that SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor will never re-use threads  That s only half the solution  The other half of the solution is to use a RequestContextFilter instead of RequestContextListener  RequestContextFilter  as well as DispatcherServlet  has a threadContextInheritable property which basically allows child threads to inherit the parent context    Solution 2  The only other option is to use the session scoped bean inside the request thread  In my case this wasn t possible because    The controller method is annotated with  Async  The controller method starts a batch job which uses threads for parallel job steps

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I fixed this issue by adding following code in my file     Component  Scope value    session    proxyMode   ScopedProxyMode TARGET CLASS    XML configuration -    lt listener gt           lt listener-class gt              org springframework web context request RequestContextListener           lt  listener-class gt   lt  listener gt    Above we can do using Java configuration -    Configuration  WebListener public class MyRequestContextListener extends RequestContextListener       How to add a RequestContextListener with no-xml configuration   I am using spring version 5 1 4 RELEASE and no need to add below changes in pom    lt dependency gt       lt groupId gt cglib lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt cglib lt  artifactId gt       lt version gt 3 2 10 lt  version gt   lt  dependency gt

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My answer refers to a special case of the general problem the OP describes  but I ll add it just in case it helps somebody out   When using  EnableOAuth2Sso  Spring puts an OAuth2RestTemplate on the application context  and this component happens to assume thread-bound servlet-related stuff   My code has a scheduled async method that uses an autowired RestTemplate  This isn t running inside DispatcherServlet  but Spring was injecting the OAuth2RestTemplate  which produced the error the OP describes   The solution was to do name-based injection  In the Java config    Bean public RestTemplate pingRestTemplate         return new RestTemplate        and in the class that uses it    Autowired  Qualifier  pingRestTemplate   private RestTemplate restTemplate    Now Spring injects the intended  servlet-free RestTemplate

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https   stackoverflow com a 30640097 2569475  For This Issue check My answer at above given url   Using a request scoped bean outside of an actual web request

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You just need to define in your bean where you need a different scope than default singleton scope except prototype  For example    lt bean id  shoppingCart      class  com xxxxx xxxx ShoppingCartBean  scope  session  gt      lt aop scoped-proxy  gt    lt  bean gt

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The problem is not in your Spring annotations but your design pattern  You mix together different scopes and threads    singleton  session  or request  thread pool of jobs   The singleton is available anywhere  it is ok  However session request scope is not available outside a thread that is attached to a request   Asynchronous job can run even the request or session doesn t exist anymore  so it is not possible to use a request session dependent bean  Also there is no way to know  if your are running a job in a separate thread  which thread is the originator request  it means aop proxy is not helpful in this case      I think your code looks like that you want to make a contract between ReportController  ReportBuilder  UselessTask and ReportPage  Is there a way to use just a simple class  POJO  to store data from UselessTask and read it in ReportController or ReportPage and do not use ReportBuilder anymore

[spring] Scope 'session' is not active for the current thread; IllegalStateException: No thread-bound request found

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