MongoAutoConfiguration not working after excluding BatchAutoConfiguration - spring-boot

Question

I am working on a spring-boot batch application which was working fine when its parent (pom.xml) was
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId>
<version>1.5.9.RELEASE</version>
pom.xml before change
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<artifactId>project-artefact</artifactId>
<name>project-name</name>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.8.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<properties>
<spring.batch.test.version>4.0.0.RELEASE</spring.batch.test.version>
<lombok.version>1.16.18</lombok.version>
<jaxb2.runtime.version>1.11.1</jaxb2.runtime.version>
<flapdoodle.embed.mongo.version>1.50.5</flapdoodle.embed.mongo.version>
<embedmongo-spring.version>RELEASE</embedmongo-spring.version>
<spock.version>1.1-groovy-2.4</spock.version>
<groovy.version>2.4.12</groovy.version>
<wiremock.version>2.12.0</wiremock.version>
<spring.spock.version>1.1-groovy-2.4</spring.spock.version>
<jacoco.version>0.8.0</jacoco.version>
<!-- Test coverage -->
<jacoco.outputDir>${project.build.directory}</jacoco.outputDir>
<!-- Unit test report path -->
<jacoco.out.ut.file>jacoco-ut.exec</jacoco.out.ut.file>
<jacoco.reportPath>${jacoco.outputDir}/${jacoco.out.ut.file}</jacoco.reportPath>
<!-- Integration test report path-->
<jacoco.out.it.file>jacoco-it.exec</jacoco.out.it.file>
<jacoco.itReportPath>${jacoco.outputDir}/${jacoco.out.it.file}</jacoco.itReportPath>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-autoconfigure</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-batch</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-batch-test</artifactId>
<version>${spring.batch.test.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.projectlombok/lombok -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<version>${lombok.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jongo/jongo -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>${slf4j.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb2-basics-runtime</artifactId>
<version>${jaxb2.runtime.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>de.flapdoodle.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>de.flapdoodle.embed.mongo</artifactId>
<version>${flapdoodle.embed.mongo.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>cz.jirutka.spring</groupId>
<artifactId>embedmongo-spring</artifactId>
<version>${embedmongo-spring.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.spockframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spock-core</artifactId>
<version>${spock.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.codehaus.groovy/groovy-all -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
<artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
<version>${groovy.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.tomakehurst</groupId>
<artifactId>wiremock</artifactId>
<version>${wiremock.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.spockframework/spock-spring -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.spockframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spock-spring</artifactId>
<version>${spring.spock.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<!-- The gmavenplus plugin is used to compile Groovy code. To learn more about this plugin,
visit https://github.com/groovy/GMavenPlus/wiki -->
<groupId>org.codehaus.gmavenplus</groupId>
<artifactId>gmavenplus-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.5</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>testCompile</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.18.1</version>
<configuration>
<argLine>${surefireArgLine}</argLine>
<useFile>false</useFile>
<includes>
<include>**/*Spec.java</include>
<include>**/*Tests.java</include>
<include>**/*Test.java</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jaxb2-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.13.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>generate</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<schemaDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/xsd</schemaDirectory>
<generatePackage>some.package</generatePackage>
<generateDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources</generateDirectory>
<extension>true</extension>
<args>
<arg>-no-header</arg>
<arg>-Xxew</arg>
<arg>-Xxew:instantiate lazy</arg>
<arg>-XtoString</arg>
<arg>-Xequals</arg>
<arg>-XhashCode</arg>
</args>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb2-basics</artifactId>
<version>0.9.5</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.jaxb-xew-plugin</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-xew-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.5</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${jacoco.version}</version>
<executions>
<!-- Sets up jacaco for unit test coverage analysis (jacoco.agent.ut.arg) -->
<execution>
<id>prepare-ut-agent</id>
<phase>process-test-classes</phase>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<destFile>${jacoco.reportPath}</destFile>
<propertyName>surefireArgLine</propertyName>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
However, today I had to change the parent in pom.xml to use organisational's default parent being used for all other projects (These projects dont use Spring boot). Now, to overcome this I followed this and added spring-boot-dependencies in <dependencyManagement> tag of pom.xml.
New pom.xml after change:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<artifactId>project-artefact</artifactId>
<name>project-name</name>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<parent>
<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
<groupId>some.group.id</groupId>
<version>1.0</version>
<relativePath>../relative-path</relativePath>
</parent>
<properties>
<spring.batch.test.version>4.0.0.RELEASE</spring.batch.test.version>
<lombok.version>1.16.18</lombok.version>
<jaxb2.runtime.version>1.11.1</jaxb2.runtime.version>
<flapdoodle.embed.mongo.version>1.50.5</flapdoodle.embed.mongo.version>
<embedmongo-spring.version>RELEASE</embedmongo-spring.version>
<spock.version>1.1-groovy-2.4</spock.version>
<groovy.version>2.4.12</groovy.version>
<wiremock.version>2.12.0</wiremock.version>
<spring.spock.version>1.1-groovy-2.4</spring.spock.version>
<jacoco.version>0.8.0</jacoco.version>
<!-- Test coverage -->
<jacoco.outputDir>${project.build.directory}</jacoco.outputDir>
<!-- Unit test report path -->
<jacoco.out.ut.file>jacoco-ut.exec</jacoco.out.ut.file>
<jacoco.reportPath>${jacoco.outputDir}/${jacoco.out.ut.file}</jacoco.reportPath>
<!-- Integration test report path-->
<jacoco.out.it.file>jacoco-it.exec</jacoco.out.it.file>
<jacoco.itReportPath>${jacoco.outputDir}/${jacoco.out.it.file}</jacoco.itReportPath>
<datamining.common.version>2017.12-SNAPSHOT</datamining.common.version>
<spring.boot.version>1.5.9.RELEASE</spring.boot.version>
</properties>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId>
<version>${spring.boot.version}</version>
<version>${spring.boot.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-autoconfigure</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-batch</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.projectlombok/lombok -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<version>${lombok.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>${slf4j.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb2-basics-runtime</artifactId>
<version>${jaxb2.runtime.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>de.flapdoodle.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>de.flapdoodle.embed.mongo</artifactId>
<version>${flapdoodle.embed.mongo.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>cz.jirutka.spring</groupId>
<artifactId>embedmongo-spring</artifactId>
<version>${embedmongo-spring.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-batch-test</artifactId>
<version>${spring.batch.test.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.spockframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spock-core</artifactId>
<version>${spock.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.codehaus.groovy/groovy-all -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
<artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
<version>${groovy.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.tomakehurst</groupId>
<artifactId>wiremock</artifactId>
<version>${wiremock.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.spockframework/spock-spring -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.spockframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spock-spring</artifactId>
<version>${spring.spock.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<!-- The gmavenplus plugin is used to compile Groovy code. To learn more about this plugin,
visit https://github.com/groovy/GMavenPlus/wiki -->
<groupId>org.codehaus.gmavenplus</groupId>
<artifactId>gmavenplus-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.5</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>testCompile</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.18.1</version>
<configuration>
<argLine>${surefireArgLine}</argLine>
<useFile>false</useFile>
<includes>
<include>**/*Spec.java</include>
<include>**/*Tests.java</include>
<include>**/*Test.java</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${spring.boot.version}</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jaxb2-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.13.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>generate</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<schemaDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/xsd</schemaDirectory>
<generatePackage>some.package</generatePackage>
<generateDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources</generateDirectory>
<extension>true</extension>
<args>
<arg>-no-header</arg>
<arg>-Xxew</arg>
<arg>-Xxew:instantiate lazy</arg>
<arg>-XtoString</arg>
<arg>-Xequals</arg>
<arg>-XhashCode</arg>
</args>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb2-basics</artifactId>
<version>0.9.5</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.jaxb-xew-plugin</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-xew-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.5</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${jacoco.version}</version>
<executions>
<!-- Sets up jacaco for unit test coverage analysis (jacoco.agent.ut.arg) -->
<execution>
<id>prepare-ut-agent</id>
<phase>process-test-classes</phase>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<destFile>${jacoco.reportPath}</destFile>
<propertyName>surefireArgLine</propertyName>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
This started giving me following error whenever I use to run the executable artefact jar prepared from mvn spring-boot:repackage
Parameter 0 of method basicBatchConfigurer in org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.batch.BatchAutoConfiguration$JpaBatchConfiguration required a bean of type 'javax.sql.DataSource' that could not be found.
- Bean method 'dataSource' not loaded because #ConditionalOnProperty (spring.datasource.jndi-name) did not find property 'jndi-name'
- Bean method 'dataSource' not loaded because #ConditionalOnClass did not find required class 'javax.transaction.TransactionManager'
This made exclude BatchAutoConfiguration from #SpringBootApplication autoconfiguration exclusions, like this,
#SpringBootApplication(exclude = {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class, BatchAutoConfiguration.class})
It makes the application start, but now I see except spring.data.mongodb.database in application.properties, none of the other mongoDB auto-configuration properties (spring.data.mongodb.*) gets picked up!
Could you please help how to resolve it?

Answer 1

I seem to have found the problem.
The initial problem of suddenly getting BatchAutoConfiguration$JpaBatchConfiguration require a DataSource was because of a local dependency I added in new pom.xml which brought in
javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory
in the classpath.
This activated BatchAutoConfiguration.JpaBatchConfiguration which then needed a javax.sql.DataSource bean.
After excluding the dependency of javax.persistence the BatchAutoConfiguration issue goes away.
Now, MongoAutoConfiguration not being picked up, wasn't an issue and I am sorry I didn't dig in well. It was actually being picked up but the reason data wasn't being inserted in my mongoDB was an issue in my code sending no data to write to org.springframework.batch.item.data.MongoItemWriter.
I got my lesson (again!!) of not doing too many changes in code at one point of time ;)