Possible to remove Spring Cloud dependencies?

[slindenberg]

Hello I would like to know if its possible to remove the Spring Cloud dependencies from:

com.playtika.reactivefeign
feign-reactor-spring-configuration
4.2.1

When updating Spring Boot, it always lacks support. I have found the following transitive dependencies:

spring-cloud-commons
org.springframework.cloud

spring-cloud-context
org.springframework.cloud

spring-cloud-openfeign-core
org.springframework.cloud

Maybe its possible to just use OpenFeign instead? Once I remove this dependencies, I get:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.cloud.context.named.NamedContextFactory$Specification

Thank you for any help on this!

[ThomasBakker]

This is a bit tricky, and you should test it extensively before releasing it, but you could exclude the Spring Cloud dependency from Feign Reactive

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.playtika.reactivefeign</groupId>
    <artifactId>feign-reactor-cloud</artifactId>
    <version>${feign.version}</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-commons</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

And then manually add the Spring Cloud version that's compatible with your Spring Boot version.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-cloud-commons</artifactId>
    <version>${spring-cloud-commons.version}</version>
</dependency>

This way you can keep your Spring Boot up-to-date while keeping Feign Reactive working.