How to enable TaskScheduler in spring-boot?

Question

I'm using spring-boot to set up spring defaults. I'd like to use the @EnableScheduling mechanism, and schedule my tasks conditional.

Therefore I have to implement SchedulingConfigurer and set TaskScheduler explicit.

But when injecting the TaskScheduler , I get the following error. But why doesn't spring-boot automatically provide a Scheduler accordingly?

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@EnableScheduling
public class AppConfig {

}

@Service
public class JobService implements SchedulingConfigurer {
    @Autowired
    private TaskScheduler taskScheduler;

    //schedule the task dynamically
    @Override
    public void configureTasks(ScheduledTaskRegistrar taskRegistrar) {
        taskRegistrar.setScheduler(taskScheduler); //fails
        taskRegistrar.addTriggerTask(task, trigger);
    }
}

Error:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.springframework.scheduling.TaskScheduler; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.scheduling.TaskScheduler] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:561)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:88)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:331)
    ... 15 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.scheduling.TaskScheduler] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoSuchBeanDefinitionException(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1308)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1054)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:949)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:533)
    ... 17 more

Answer 1

You don't need to set a scheduler on the ScheduledTaskRegistrar . If one hasn't been configured it defaults to a ConcurrentTaskScheduler that wraps a single-threaded scheduled executor:

if (this.taskScheduler == null) {
    this.localExecutor = Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor();
    this.taskScheduler = new ConcurrentTaskScheduler(this.localExecutor);
}

If you're happy with this default scheduler you can remove your autowiring of TaskScheduler and the call to set it on the ScheduledTaskRegistrar . Also, as Marten's suggested in the comments, you should make your SchedulingConfigurer a configuration class rather than a service.

These changes leave your code looking something like this:

@Configuration
static class TaskConfiguration implements SchedulingConfigurer {

    //schedule the task dynamically
    @Override
    public void configureTasks(ScheduledTaskRegistrar taskRegistrar) {
        taskRegistrar.addTriggerTask(task, trigger);
    }
}