No Scope registered for scope request
Recently I was working with some code which defined beans as request scope. Junit tests failed with the following exception while trying to initialize the application context: Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: ...; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Scope registered for scope 'request' I found the solution by searching around (unfortunately I didn't record the sources). Basically, you can register the required scopes as shown below: [sourcecode language='java'] import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletRequest; import org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextHolder; import org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestScope; import org.springframework.web.context.request.ServletRequestAttributes; import org.springframework.web.context.request.SessionScope; public class SampleTest extends AbstractDependencyInjectionSpringContextTests { @Override protected v