A bean with that name has already been defined in class path resource [path] and overriding is disabled - spring-boot

Question

I have the java configuration for the Spring Data Elaticsearch(using Transport Client) and ESTemplate.
Here some except:
#Configuration
#EnableElasticsearchRepositories(basePackages = "subpackage-in-this-project")
#PropertySource("file:path-to-file")
public class ESConfig {
#Bean
ElasticsearchTemplate elasticsearchTemplate(Client client) {
return new ElasticsearchTemplate(client);
}
#Bean
Client client() {
// configuration of the ES client
}
}
And I have a config that extends the one above in the different project.
#Configuration
#ComponentScan("package-prefix-that-matches-packages-in-both-projects")
#EnableElasticsearchRepositories(basePackages = "subpackage-in-this-project")
#PropertySource("file:same-path-to-file-as-in-the-config-above")
public class ExtendedESConfig extends ESConfig {
#Value("index-name")
private String indexName;
#Bean
public String indexName() {
return indexName;
}
}
Upon executing a third Spring Boot application, which uses the dependency on the project with ExtendedESConfig, I get this and I can't quite understand why does it happen, started to happen after upgrading to 2.2.9.RELEASE from 2.0.5.RELEASE Spring Boot version.
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APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:
The bean 'elasticsearchTemplate', defined in class path resource [my/package/ESConfig.class], could not be registered. A bean with that name has already been defined in class path resource [my/other/package/ExtendedESConfig.class] and overriding is disabled.
Action:
Consider renaming one of the beans or enabling overriding by setting spring.main.allow-bean-definition-overriding=true
2020-08-30 16:49:46 ERROR [main] org.springframework.boot.diagnostics.LoggingFailureAnalysisReporter:40 -
Important remark from my comment:
... sadly, I am not the one who wrote this ES config and built the whole infrastructure around it. ...
At the time of this question, I don't own ExtendedESConfig nor can change it.

Answer 1

Or you can add the next property to your application.properties :
spring.main.allow-bean-definition-overriding=true

Answer 2

The default behaviour of overriding bean has been disabled in Spring Boot 2.1. Spring Boot 2.1 Release Notes
Since you don't own / or don't want to modify both configuration classes. You can exclude parent configuration form your SpringBootApplication class using #ComponentScan
#SpringBootApplication
#ComponentScan(excludeFilters =
{#ComponentScan.Filter(type = FilterType.ASSIGNABLE_TYPE, classes = ESConfig.class)})
public class DemoApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(DemoApplication.class, args);
}
}

Answer 3

I had a similar problem with my custom springSecurityFilterChain method, in my #Configuration class. The application told me it couldn't create a Bean named springSecurityFilterChain since it was defined elsewhere (in my case, in a Spring Security package, which, as is your case, I couldn't modify).
I found the solution here and it amounted to simply changing my custom method's name; I chose customFilterChain. So it went from
#Bean
public SecurityFilterChain springSecurityFilterChain(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
return http
.csrf().disable()
// etc
}
to:
#Bean
public SecurityFilterChain customFilterChain(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
return http
.csrf().disable()
// etc
}
Amazingly it worked. Like the article says, Spring builds the bean using the method's name by default. Hope it helps.

Answer 4

find in your modul: resources/application.properties and write:
spring.main.allow-bean-definition-overriding=true
it help you, you need to enable the beans override mechanism.