How-to articles, tricks, and solutions about ANNOTATIONS

@Autowired - No qualifying bean of type found for dependency

No qualifying bean of type found for dependency is an error message that can occur when you are using the @Autowired annotation in Spring to inject a bean dependency.

intellij incorrectly saying no beans of type found for autowired repository

If IntelliJ is saying "No beans of type 'X' found for autowiring" for a repository that you are trying to autowire, it means that the Spring application context does not contain a bean of the specified type.

Only using @JsonIgnore during serialization, but not deserialization

If you want to use the @JsonIgnore annotation to ignore a field during serialization but not during deserialization, you can use the @JsonIgnoreProperties annotation and set its writeOnly property to true.

Setting default values for columns in JPA

To set default values for columns in JPA (Java Persistence API), you can use the @Column annotation and the columnDefinition attribute.

What does -> mean in Python function definitions?

In Python, the "->" symbol is used to indicate the return type of a function.

What's the difference between @Component, @Repository & @Service annotations in Spring?

In Spring, the @Component annotation is used to mark a Java class as a candidate for component scanning. The @Repository annotation is a specialization of @Component for use in the persistence layer.

When do you use Java's @Override annotation and why?

The @Override annotation in Java is used to indicate that a method is intended to override a method declared in a superclass or interface.