Spring 4.3.30 to Spring 5.3.18 - No thread-bound request found
Tags: spring
Published: 2022-05-20 12:00:39

Hello,

Attempting to upgrade Spring 4.3.30 to Spring 5.3.18. Get the following error when loading Tomcat 8.5.56:

Caused by: 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: In this case, use RequestContextListener or RequestContextFilter to expose the current request.

Tech stack:
Eclipselink JPA 2.5.1
BasicDatasource connection is setup using Apache commons-dbcp-1.1
Apache CXF Bundle Jar 2.7.18.SP7-redhat-1 - used for JAXRS

I have tried to replace the RequestContextListener with an updated RequestContextFilter with default value for threadContextInheritable to true.

Listed below are some excerpts from web.xml, persistence.xml and spring-config.xml files. Any inputs will be useful.

Thanks,
Mansur Farooq`

Web.xml:

<listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener> 
    
	<filter>
        <filter-name>requestContextFilter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.RequestContextFilter</filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>threadContextInheritable</param-name>
            <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>requestContextFilter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>


Persistence.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.0"
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd">
	<persistence-unit name="mdbPersistence"
		transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">

		<mapping-file>META-INF/orm.xml</mapping-file>
		<class><Custom JPA entities></class>
<exclude-unlisted-classes>true</exclude-unlisted-classes>
		<properties>

			<property name="eclipselink.weaving" value="static">
			</property>
			<property name="eclipselink.logging.level" value="OFF" />
			<property name="eclipselink.logging.logger"
				value="org.eclipse.persistence.logging.CommonsLoggingSessionLog" />
			<property name="eclipselink.logging.session" value="FALSE" />
			<property name="eclipselink.logging.level.sql" value="OFF" />
			<property name="eclipselink.logging.parameters" value="FALSE" />


		</properties>
		<!-- custom SessionLog implementation to use apache commons logging 1.1 
			API (so log4J) -->

		<shared-cache-mode>NONE</shared-cache-mode>
	</persistence-unit>

Spring-Config.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xmlns:flow="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config" xmlns:jms="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms"
	xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang"
	xmlns:osgi="http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:cxf="http://cxf.apache.org/core" xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws"
	xmlns:jaxrs="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config/spring-webflow-config-1.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms-2.5.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-2.5.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang-2.5.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi/spring-osgi.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd
       http://cxf.apache.org/core
       http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/core.xsd
       http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws
       http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd
       http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs
       http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxrs.xsd
       "
	default-autowire="byName">
	<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml" />
	<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-soap.xml" />
	<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-servlet.xml" />

	<cxf:bus>
		<cxf:features>
			<cxf:logging />
		</cxf:features>
	</cxf:bus>

	<jaxrs:server id="restServer" address="/services/"
		beanNames="<custom bean names> ">


		<jaxrs:extensionMappings>
			<entry key="feed" value="application/atom+xml" />
			<entry key="json" value="application/json" />
			<entry key="xml" value="application/xml" />
			<entry key="html" value="text/html" />
		</jaxrs:extensionMappings>

		<jaxrs:providers>
			<bean class="org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.provider.json.JSONProvider">
				<property name="writeXsiType" value="false" />
				<property name="readXsiType" value="false" />
			</bean>
		</jaxrs:providers>
	</jaxrs:server>



	<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean" scope="session">
		<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
		<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
			<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.EclipseLinkJpaVendorAdapter">
				<property name="showSql" value="false" />
				<property name="generateDdl" value="false" />
			</bean>
		</property>
		<property name="persistenceUnitPostProcessors" ref="persistenceUnitPostProcessor" />
	</bean>

	<bean id="persistenceUnitPostProcessor" class="<path to custom class file>"
		scope="session">
		<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
	</bean>


	<bean id="dataSource" class="<path to custom datasource class file(Apache DBCP)>" scope="session">
	</bean>

   <bean id="taskExecutor" class="org.springframework.core.task.SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor">

 </bean>