The import org.springframework.boot.webtestclient.AutoConfigureWebTestClient cannot be resolved

[swj20010308]

Problem

This compilation failure occurred when I tried building the project without Maven cache.

$ mvn -P spring install -am -DskipTests

will result in something like:

ActuatorDisabledHealthTest.java:[26,46] package org.springframework.boot.webtestclient does not exist

The IDE will show a slightly different error:

The import org.springframework.boot.webtestclient.AutoConfigureWebTestClient cannot be resolved

This error can be reproduced with the forked repo's CI.

Potential solution

Although I cannot find any changes in the documentation for org.springframework.boot.webtestclient, the latest snapshot seems to be using a new import path

org.springframework.boot.webtestclient.autoconfigure.AutoConfigureWebTestClient

which we can verify after the failed build attempt:

$ jar -tf ~/.m2/repository/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-webtestclient/4.0.0-SNAPSHOT/spring-boot-webtestclient-4.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar | grep AutoConfigureWebTestClient

org/springframework/boot/webtestclient/autoconfigure/AutoConfigureWebTestClient.class
META-INF/spring/org.springframework.boot.webtestclient.autoconfigure.AutoConfigureWebTestClient.imports

Therefore the quickest fix is to update all the imports for AutoConfigureWebTestClient. With this solution the fork's CI was able to build successfully. That being said I'm not sure if the new import path can be resolved by older snapshots of spring-boot-webtestclient, so it might be necessary to clear the cache first.

[wind57]

I am a bit confused. Did you run this against main, locally? I can not re-produce this one, everything compiles locally and we had a few build this week that passed also.

[wind57]

ah! ok, got it, I'll fix it. it's a change in spring-boot snapshot dependencies

[wind57]

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