No thread-bound request found in Spring MVC - servlets

Question

I m building an app using Spring mvc and I am trying to access an http request from a bean outside the scope of the DispatcherServlet. I read similar posts and figured out that I need to add the RequestContextListener. However I keep getting the same error .Below you can see the controller and the bean I m injecting to the controller:
#Controller
public class ChargeController {
// Injected bean
#Autowired
public StripeCharger stripeCharger;
#RequestMapping(value = "/stripecharge", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String chargeStripe(ModelMap model) {
// user`s custom code
String response = stripeCharger.charge();
}
}
part of the web.xml
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>
The injected bean
package com.controller;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextHolder;
import org.springframework.web.context.request.ServletRequestAttributes;
import com.stripe.Stripe;
import com.stripe.exception.StripeException;
import com.stripe.model.Charge;
public class StripeCharger {
public String token;
public StripeCharger()
{
HttpServletRequest curRequest = ((ServletRequestAttributes) RequestContextHolder.currentRequestAttributes()).getRequest();
this.token = curRequest.getParameter("stripeToken");
}
}
-servlet.xml
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd">
<mvc:default-servlet-handler />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.controller" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
<!-- This bean is auto-generated -->
<!-- define the bean to inject the Stripe charger -->
<bean id="StripeCharger" class="com.controller.StripeCharger" scope="request">
<aop:scoped-proxy/>
</bean>
</beans>
Anybody could help me with this issue? Thank you