springboot initialization error on startup with mongodb on gorm/groovy

Question

Getting startup issues for this springboot project using MongoDB/GORM/Groovy on Java 1.7.0_55, gradle 1.11, and spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.2.1.RELEASE.

I'm running the project as-is with the exception of the following change to application.yml for my remote mongodb:

spring:
    mongodb:
        host: "10.160.8.1"
        databaseName: "citydb"

**On startup, I'm seeing this bean initialization error with mappingMongoConverter

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.UnsatisfiedDependencyException: Error creating bean with name 'mongoTemplate' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/mongo/MongoDataAutoConfiguration.class]:
Unsatisfied dependency expressed through constructor argument with index 1 of type [org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MongoConverter]: : Error creating bean with name 'mappingMongoConverter' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/mongo/MongoDataAutoConfiguration.class]:
Unsatisfied dependency expressed through constructor argument with index 1 of type [org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.MongoMappingContext]: : No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.MongoMapping
Context] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {}; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.MongoMappingCo
ntext] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {}; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.UnsatisfiedDependencyException: Error creating bean with name 'mappingMongoConverter' defined in class path resource [org
/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/mongo/MongoDataAutoConfiguration.class]: Unsatisfied dependency expressed through constructor argument with index 1 of typ
e [org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.MongoMappingContext]: : No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.MongoMappin
gContext] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {}; nested excepti
on is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.MongoMappingC
ontext] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {}

I think this is the main issue:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.UnsatisfiedDependencyException: Error creating bean with name 'mappingMongoConverter' defined in class path resou
rce [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/mongo/MongoDataAutoConfiguration.class]: Unsatisfied dependency expressed through constructor argument with index
1 of type [org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.MongoMappingContext]: : No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.Mon
goMappingContext] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {}; nested
 exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.Mongo
MappingContext] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {}
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.createArgumentArray(ConstructorResolver.java:749)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(ConstructorResolver.java:464)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:
1111)

Could this be a GORM dependency issue? I'm using the latest, org.grails:gorm-mongodb-spring-boot:1.1.0.RELEASE

Tracked as issue on github: https://github.com/spring-guides/gs-accessing-data-gorm-mongodb/issues/6

Answer 1

gorm-mongodb-spring-boot is incompatible with Spring Boot 1.2. It creates a bean named mongoMappingContext that prevents MongoDataAutoConfiguration from creating its own bean with the same name. You should see a message like this in the log:

2015-02-25 14:01:30.731  INFO 60231 --- [           main] a.ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader : Skipping bean definition for [BeanMethod:name=mongoMappingContext,declaringClass=org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.mongo.MongoDataAutoConfiguration]: a definition for bean 'mongoMappingContext' already exists. This top-level bean definition is considered as an override.

You can work around the problem by declaring your own org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.MongoMappingContext bean with a different name, for example:

@Bean
MongoMappingContext springDataMongoMappingContext() {
    return new MongoMappingContext()
}