TypeConverter needs Spring Bean

[Griffith, Michael *]

Hello everyone, 

I have a type converter that needs to get access to my Spring managed
service so it can do a DB lookup. I was under the impression that the
struts-spring plug-in handled DI for the converter. However, when the
convertFromString method tries to access the service called
statusService, I get a NPE. What am I doing wrong?

Any reply would be appreciated,

Cheers!
MG

public class StatusTypeConverter extends StrutsTypeConverter {

        StatusService statusService;

        @Override
        public Object convertFromString(Map context, String[] values,
Class toClass) {
                Status retVal = null;
                if (values != null && values.length > 0 && values[0] !=
null
                                && values[0].length() > 0) {
                        String[] ids = (String[]) values;
                        Integer id = new Integer(ids[0]);
                        retVal = statusService.getStatus(id);  // NPE
thrown here!!
                }
                return retVal;

        }

        @Override
        public String convertToString(Map arg0, Object object) {
                String retVal = "";
                if (object instanceof Status) {
                        Status s = (Status) object;
                        retVal = s.getDescription();
                }
                return retVal;
        }

        public void setStatusService(StatusService statusService) {
                this.statusService = statusService;
        }
}

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