Jersey should specify what constitutes a "suitable constructor"

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Jersey throws the following exception:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: Could not find a suitable constructor in com.mycompany.jersey2guice.JerseyApplication class.
	at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.inject.JerseyClassAnalyzer.getConstructor(JerseyClassAnalyzer.java:189)
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Expected behavior: explain what constitutes a "suitable constructor" in the exception message so developers know what needs to get fixed. Either link to a more detailed explanation or describe it inline.

Also, it would be useful if you provided more contextual information, such as "Found constructors X, Y, Z. Was looking for A, B or C"

Affected Versions

[2.2]

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Reported by cowwoc

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cowwoc said:
Two comments:

1. It looks like the error messages are coming from hk2 so you might have to redirect this bug report there.
2. Please pay special attention to constructors annotated with @Inject. It is a common mistake to import com.google.Inject instead of javax.inject.Inject. Currently, org.jvnet.hk2.internal.Utilities.hasInjectAnnotation() checks for javax.inject.Inject and throws an error if two constructors are annotated with @Inject. I suggest throwing an error if a constructor is annotated with @Inject that does not resolve to javax.inject.Inject in order to help users catch errors. As far as I know, each class only uses one type of @Inject at a time so we are unlikely to run into false positives.

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sinzone said:
+1. What is a suitable constructor?

In my case the constructor in my resource/controller required some arguments, I removed them and now everything works. I guess Jersey's reflection can't initialize the class if there are some arguments, because obviously it doesn't know what to put there. This wasn't clear at a first look.

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minfrin said:
This just bit me as well, +1 on a proper error message with no weasel words.

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This issue was imported from java.net JIRA JERSEY-2118