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Spring - @Scheduled Annotated Method Arguments

[Last Updated: Oct 30, 2025]

As mentioned in the last tutorialThe methods annotated with @Scheduled must have void returns and must not have any arguments. This is because of scheduled methods' periodic nature where passing an argument or receiving a return value won't make much sense.

Following example shows specifying an arguments ends up with an exception.

Example

The bean

package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Scheduled;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import java.time.LocalTime;

@Component
public class MyBean {

  @Scheduled(initialDelay = 100)
  public void runTask(String arg) {
      System.out.println("arg: "+arg);
      System.out.printf("task thread: %s, time: %s%n",
              Thread.currentThread().getName(),
              LocalTime.now());
      try {
          Thread.sleep(500);
      } catch (InterruptedException e) {
      }
  }
}

Main class

package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.EnableScheduling;
import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Scheduled;

import java.time.LocalTime;

@EnableScheduling
@ComponentScan
@Configuration
public class ScheduledMethodArgExample {

  public static void main (String[] args) {
      AnnotationConfigApplicationContext context =
                new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(
                        ScheduledMethodArgExample.class);

  }
}

Output

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not create recurring task for @Scheduled method 'runTask': Only no-arg methods may be annotated with @Scheduled
    at java.lang.Iterable.forEach (Iterable.java:75)
    at java.util.LinkedHashMap.forEach (LinkedHashMap.java:987)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsAfterInitialization (AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:445)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean (AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1829)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean (AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:607)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean (AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:529)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$0 (AbstractBeanFactory.java:339)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton (DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:373)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean (AbstractBeanFactory.java:337)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean (AbstractBeanFactory.java:202)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.instantiateSingleton (DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1228)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingleton (DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1194)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons (DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1130)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization (AbstractApplicationContext.java:990)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh (AbstractApplicationContext.java:627)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext.<init> (AnnotationConfigApplicationContext.java:93)
    at com.logicbig.example.ScheduledMethodArgExample.main (ScheduledMethodArgExample.java:24)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke (DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:104)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:565)
    at org.codehaus.mojo.exec.AbstractExecJavaBase.executeMainMethod (AbstractExecJavaBase.java:402)
    at org.codehaus.mojo.exec.ExecJavaMojo.executeMainMethod (ExecJavaMojo.java:142)
    at org.codehaus.mojo.exec.AbstractExecJavaBase.doExecClassLoader (AbstractExecJavaBase.java:377)
    at org.codehaus.mojo.exec.AbstractExecJavaBase.lambda$execute$0 (AbstractExecJavaBase.java:287)
    at java.lang.Thread.run (Thread.java:1474)

Example Project

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  • JDK 25
  • Maven 3.9.11
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