Redis – SpringBoot Service Injection using private final not working

I am new to springboot and am trying to follow this example: https://github.com/eugenp/tutorials/tree/master/spring-caching-2

In my app I keep getting "error: variable myApplicationService not initialized in the default constructor" but in comparison to the tutorial I am following, I don’t understand how it gets initialized, this is my controller:

package com.springbootredis.controllers;

import com.springbootredis.service.MyApplicationService;
import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

import java.util.UUID;

@RestController
@AllArgsConstructor
@RequestMapping(value = "/person", produces = { MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE })
public class PersonController {

    private final MyApplicationService myApplicationService;//ERROR HERE

    @GetMapping("/uuid")
    public String generateRandomUUID() {
        return UUID.randomUUID().toString();
    }

    @GetMapping("/addperson/{name}")
    public String addPerson(@PathVariable String name) {
        String ret = myApplicationService.addNewPerson(name);
        return "Added person with name: " + name + " and id: " + ret;
    }


    @GetMapping("/deleteperson/{id}")
    public String deletePerson(@PathVariable String id) {
        String ret = myApplicationService.delete(id);
        return "Deleted person. ID:" + id + " Name: " + ret;
    }

    @GetMapping("/updateperson/{id}/{name}")
    public String updatePerson(@PathVariable String id, @PathVariable String name) {
        myApplicationService.updatePerson(id, name);
        return "Updated person. ID:" + id + " with Name: " + name;
    }

    @GetMapping("/getperson/{id}")
    public String getPerson(@PathVariable String id) {
        String ret = myApplicationService.findById(id);
        return "Got person. ID:" + id + " Name: " + ret;
    }
}

I tried autowired annotation but it says it is not recommended, and the build still fails. My build.gradle looks like this:

plugins {
    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.7.1'
    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.11.RELEASE'
    id 'java'
    id 'war'
}

group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = '11'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
    implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa")
    implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-redis:2.7.0")
    implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-cache:2.7.1")
    implementation("org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.24")
    implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-dependencies:2.7.1")

    runtimeOnly("mysql:mysql-connector-java:8.0.29")

    providedRuntime 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat'
    testImplementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test'
}

tasks.named('test') {
    useJUnitPlatform()
}

Any help/pointers would be much appreciated.