spring-cloud-starter-bootstrap dependency breaks ApplicationContextInitializer usage

[sergey-morenets]

Hi

I have a project that uses Spring Cloud Config Consul. I can't use spring.config.import property (because it doesn't support Spring Retry now). You can view details here: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-consul/issues/703
So I added spring-cloud-starter-bootstrap dependency and it helped if I don't use custom ApplicationContextInitializer.

For example, here's my simplified project:

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableConfigurationProperties(UserProperties.class)
public class ConsulClientApplication {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		SpringApplication.run(ConsulClientApplication.class, args);
	}
}

@ConfigurationProperties 
public class UserProperties {}

public class ConsulData {
	
	private final UserProperties userProperties;

	public ConsulData(UserProperties userProperties) {
		this.userProperties = userProperties;
	}
}

public class GatewayContextInitializer implements ApplicationContextInitializer<GenericApplicationContext> {

	@Override
	public void initialize(GenericApplicationContext ctx) {
		ctx.registerBean(ConsulData.class);
	}
}

And my META-INF/spring.factories:

org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextInitializer=demo.GatewayContextInitializer

Without spring-cloud-starter-bootstrap dependency my application starts properly. If I add this dependency then I get an exception:
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type 'demo.UserProperties' available: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate.

Please, advise how to resolve this issue.

[spencergibb]

I'm afraid this was precisely one of the reasons we made spring.config.import the default. I'm afraid there's no fix or workaround.

[sergey-morenets]

I'm afraid this was precisely one of the reasons we made spring.config.import the default. I'm afraid there's no fix or workaround.

Ok, then do you plan to integrate Spring Retry and Spring Config import in Cloud Consul? If so then can you please provide estimates?
I saw that you already provided similar fix for Spring Cloud Config Server.

[spencergibb]

It will be in the next release. I can't give a better estimate than weeks, but not months.