Spring Data DomainClassConverter not working (in combination with Java Config)

Question

I\'m trying to setup the Spring Data/JPA DomainClassConverter to automatically convert (String) id\'s to the domain classes itself.

My project is uses Java Config (so no

Answer 1

DomainClassConverter should be declared as a bean (because it's ApplicationContextAware), and it registers itself in ConversionService automatically, so that you don't need to register it manually:

@Bean @Autowired
public DomainClassConverter domainClassConverter(ConversionService cs) {
    return new DomainClassConverter(cs);
}

Answer 2

The exception is telling you that you need a custom converter to turn a String into a Customer. You'll have to tokenize the input and map it into Customer fields. That's true for all your domain classes.

A Google search also lead me to a thread in the Spring forum:

http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?122944-Help-with-DomainClassConverter-configuration

It suggests that there might be a bug, depending on which version of Spring you're using.