Spring Session support broken post Spring Boot 2.0.0 M2

[vpavic]

Due to recent changes in Spring Session which have been picked up by Boot in spring-projects/spring-boot@f26f817, Initializr generated projects that include Session will refer to non-existing org.springframework.session:spring-session artifact.

[snicoll]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll disable spring session for now and would like some guidance as how to restore it.

IMO (and that's not the right place to discuss this) the recent changes of one jar per store is a step backwards with regards to usability. We won't add one entry per store here so where does that leave us?

[snicoll]

There are things that should happen in Spring Boot to improve the developer experience with Spring Session the way it has been modularized. Regardless, we need to restore spring session ASAP on the production instance. I've made a proposal in the Spring Boot related issue (spring-projects/spring-boot#9552 (comment))

Any feedback on the proposal would be welcome so that we can move forward with this.

[snicoll]

We are close to 2 months with this with zero feedback.

[vpavic]

Having in mind the current constraints in Boot/Initializr the proposal does seem as the best way to address the current.

Obviously it isn't ideal that when user selects session, jdbc and redis they get both spring-session-data-redis and spring-session-jdbc but I assume there are plenty other situations where generated project requires user intervention. Other situation is when user selects session but no data store starter that results in spring-session-core which by itself does not contain a production grade SessionRepository implementation.