I'm trying to build an instance of start.spring.io to use it in an air-gaped network. I have been working on it for three weeks and still I don't understand well what to do. I have cloned start.spring.io from GitHub in a host connected to Internet.
There I can build the application without errors:
./mvnw clean install -DskipTests=true
Then if I true to run the application (../mwnw spring-boot:run from the start-site directory), I get the following error when the application starts, I mean is not an error trying to generate a project, and the application dies:
2022-12-19 17:53:21.170 INFO 2701 --- [ restartedMain] o.s.b.a.w.s.WelcomePageHandlerMapping : Adding welcome page: class path resource [static/index.html]
2022-12-19 17:53:21.264 WARN 2701 --- [ restartedMain] ConfigServletWebServerApplicationContext : Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'requestMappingHandlerMapping' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/servlet/WebMvcAutoConfiguration$EnableWebMvcConfiguration.class]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to introspect Class [io.spring.initializr.web.controller.ProjectGenerationController] from ClassLoader [jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader@5cb0d902]
2022-12-19 17:53:21.272 INFO 2701 --- [ restartedMain] o.apache.catalina.core.StandardService : Stopping service [Tomcat]
2022-12-19 17:53:21.311 INFO 2701 --- [ restartedMain] ConditionEvaluationReportLoggingListener :
Error starting ApplicationContext. To display the conditions report re-run your application with 'debug' enabled.
2022-12-19 17:53:21.411 ERROR 2701 --- [ restartedMain] o.s.boot.SpringApplication : Application run failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'requestMappingHandlerMapping' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/servlet/WebMvcAutoConfiguration$EnableWebMvcConfiguration.class]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to introspect Class [io.spring.initializr.web.controller.ProjectGenerationController] from ClassLoader [jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader@5cb0d902]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1804) ~[spring-beans-5.3.23.jar:5.3.23]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:620) ~[spring-beans-5.3.23.jar:5.3.23]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:542) ~[spring-beans-5.3.23.jar:5.3.23]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$
...
So, I am not adding any special dependencies or initilializr dependencies other than those already included in the project. I use Java 17 from Bell Soft.
I am not about the Spring Boot version but I haven't modified anything in the project. The pom file in the top directory includes:
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.7.5</version>
</parent>
About my dependencies I am using the initializer-bom:0.20.0-SNAPSHOT. I have also tried with other versions like 0.13.0 and 0.12.0 but the build fails in both cases for the start-site:
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] /workspaces/start.spring.io.ori/start-site/src/main/java/io/spring/start/site/extension/dependency/springcloud/SpringCloudContractKotlinDslGradleBuildCustomizer.java:[44,22] cannot find symbol
symbol: method snippets()
location: variable build of type io.spring.initializr.generator.buildsystem.gradle.GradleBuild
[ERROR] /workspaces/start.spring.io.ori/start-site/src/main/java/io/spring/start/site/extension/dependency/graalvm/HibernatePluginGroovyDslGradleBuildCustomizer.java:[39,22] cannot find symbol
symbol: method snippets()
location: variable build of type io.spring.initializr.generator.buildsystem.gradle.GradleBuild
[ERROR] /workspaces/start.spring.io.ori/start-site/src/main/java/io/spring/start/site/extension/dependency/springcloud/SpringCloudContractGroovyDslGradleBuildCustomizer.java:[36,22] cannot find symbol
symbol: method snippets()
location: variable build of type io.spring.initializr.generator.buildsystem.gradle.GradleBuild
[INFO] 3 errors
I wonder if this effort makes sense. If I manage to build the application, will I be able of generating code or does the application connect to somewhere else to retrieve the data required to generate the code?
I would appreciate any hints. Thanks
I will write my (potential) answer here, even though I don't really think that is a real answer but too big to make it as a comment.
My setup:
So I went to https://github.com/spring-io/start.spring.io and cloned it.
Then I went in the root directoy of the cloned project and ran following command:
Here I got some errors while running the tests, but this shouldn't be way too tragic - I think they failed for me, because it tries to run some gradlew commands but they do fail, because I don't have Gradle installed on my PC, as I am always using the Gradle Wrapper.
Then I started the Spring Boot Application.
The Spring Boot Application started:
If I now call http://localhost:8080/ - it works, I didn't do absolutely nothing.
Could it maybe be your JDK? I mean the JDKs are similar but not the same... And you also asked:
I personally think, it could make sense but - as soon as I generated a project on my own Spring Initializr, I watched the console of the Spring Boot Application and could see the following log:
Fetching Spring Boot metadata from https://spring.io/project_metadata/spring-bootSo it looks, like this thing actually fetches data from the internet, now I don't know what options you have but I have two in mind.
I hope this helps a bit?