NullPointerException while deploying Quartz in Spring Boot

Question

I am trying to use Quartz 2.2.1 with spring boot. Im trying to declare a scheduled task that is supposed to write some datas into a file. My Job is defined like below :

Answer 1

Spring Boot manages it for you. Remove the quartz dependency and just create a Service for having scheduled executions:

@Service
public class JobScheduler{

    @Autowired
    JobController controller;

    //Executes each 5000 ms
    @Scheduled(fixedRate=5000)
    public void performJob() {
        controller.doPrintData();
    }
}

And enable the task scheduling for your application:

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableScheduling
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class);
    }
}

See also:

• Scheduling Tasks in Spring Boot

Answer 2

You need to use SpringBeanJobFactory to create Job with Spring's autowired beans.

class AutowiringSpringBeanJobFactory extends SpringBeanJobFactory implements ApplicationContextAware {
    private transient AutowireCapableBeanFactory beanFactory;

    public void setApplicationContext(final ApplicationContext context) {
        beanFactory = context.getAutowireCapableBeanFactory();
    }

    @Override
    public Object createJobInstance(final TriggerFiredBundle bundle) throws Exception {
       final Object job = super.createJobInstance(bundle);
       beanFactory.autowireBean(job);  //the magic is done here
       return job;
    }
}

And then when you do

    SchedulerFactory schedFact = new org.quartz.impl.StdSchedulerFactory();
    scheduler = schedFact.getScheduler();

    AutowiringSpringBeanJobFactory autowiringSpringBeanJobFactory = new AutowiringSpringBeanJobFactory();
    autowiringSpringBeanJobFactory.setApplicationContext(applicationContext);
    scheduler.setJobFactory(autowiringSpringBeanJobFactory);