Could not autowire. There is more than one bean of 'Validator' type

Question

Wanted to autowire the Validator validator, as done in the video (4:20). Reviewed the other questions, but none covers this specific case. I now receive a curly red line underneath the validator variable, with the following message on hover:

Beans: Could not autowire. There is more than one bean of 'Validator' type

   defaultValidator (ValidationAutoConfiguration.class) 
   mvcValidator (WebMvcAutoConfiguration.class)

Code does run however...

Thanks!

Answer 1 · 2017-12-08T19:30:22Z

December 8, 2017 7:30pm

Change

@Autowired
    private Validator validator;

    @Override
    public void configureValidatingRepositoryEventListener(ValidatingRepositoryEventListener validatingListener) {
        validatingListener.addValidator("beforeCreate", validator);
        validatingListener.addValidator("beforeSave", validator);
    }

to

@Bean
public Validator validator() {
    return new LocalValidatorFactoryBean();
}


@Override
public void configureValidatingRepositoryEventListener(ValidatingRepositoryEventListener validatingListener) {
    validatingListener.addValidator("beforeCreate", validator());
    validatingListener.addValidator("beforeSave", validator());
}

More info

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39677352/spring-validator-could-not-autowire-no-beans-of-validator-type-found/39679081#39679081

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