Spring Boot 3 Native: Fails to bind properties under 'spring.groovy.template'

[mmoayyed]

Environment

Using Spring Boot 3.0.1 with the following:

java version "17.0.5" 2022-10-18 LTS
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment GraalVM EE 22.3.0 (build 17.0.5+9-LTS-jvmci-22.3-b07)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM GraalVM EE 22.3.0 (build 17.0.5+9-LTS-jvmci-22.3-b07, mixed mode, sharing)

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Gradle 7.5
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Build time:   2022-07-14 12:48:15 UTC
Revision:     c7db7b958189ad2b0c1472b6fe663e6d654a5103

Kotlin:       1.6.21
Groovy:       3.0.10
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.11 compiled on July 10 2021
JVM:          17.0.5 (Oracle Corporation 17.0.5+9-LTS-jvmci-22.3-b07)
OS:           Mac OS X 13.1 aarch64

Problem

./build/native/nativeCompile/demo

 :: Spring Boot ::                (v3.0.1)

2023-01-17T10:27:33.553+04:00  INFO 30115 --- [           main] com.example.demo.DemoApplication         : Starting AOT-processed DemoApplication using Java 17.0.5 with PID 30115 (/Users/misagh/Downloads/demo/build/native/nativeCompile/demo started by misagh in /Users/misagh/Downloads/demo)
2023-01-17T10:27:33.554+04:00  INFO 30115 --- [           main] com.example.demo.DemoApplication         : No active profile set, falling back to 1 default profile: "default"
2023-01-17T10:27:33.564+04:00  INFO 30115 --- [           main] o.s.b.w.embedded.tomcat.TomcatWebServer  : Tomcat initialized with port(s): 8080 (http)
2023-01-17T10:27:33.565+04:00  INFO 30115 --- [           main] o.apache.catalina.core.StandardService   : Starting service [Tomcat]
2023-01-17T10:27:33.565+04:00  INFO 30115 --- [           main] o.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine    : Starting Servlet engine: [Apache Tomcat/10.1.4]
2023-01-17T10:27:33.570+04:00  INFO 30115 --- [           main] o.a.c.c.C.[Tomcat].[localhost].[/]       : Initializing Spring embedded WebApplicationContext
2023-01-17T10:27:33.570+04:00  INFO 30115 --- [           main] w.s.c.ServletWebServerApplicationContext : Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 16 ms
2023-01-17T10:27:33.577+04:00  WARN 30115 --- [           main] w.s.c.ServletWebServerApplicationContext : Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'welcomePageHandlerMapping': Instantiation of supplied bean failed
2023-01-17T10:27:33.577+04:00  INFO 30115 --- [           main] o.apache.catalina.core.StandardService   : Stopping service [Tomcat]
2023-01-17T10:27:33.578+04:00 ERROR 30115 --- [           main] o.s.b.d.LoggingFailureAnalysisReporter   :

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APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:

Failed to bind properties under 'spring.groovy.template' to org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.groovy.template.GroovyTemplateAvailabilityProvider$GroovyTemplateAvailabilityProperties:

    Reason: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.groovy.template.GroovyTemplateAvailabilityProvider$GroovyTemplateAvailabilityProperties.<init>()

Action:

Update your application's configuration

Steps to reproduce

• Here is a reproducer: Archive.zip (This was initially generated using start.spring.io)
• Unzip, and run ./gradlew clean build and then ./gradlew nativeBuild.
• Run the generated native application

I discussed this briefly a few days ago with Brian here: https://gitter.im/spring-projects/spring-boot?at=63b67bd0fb195421bd6ceff3

If I can help with anything, particularly testing, please let me know :)

[mmoayyed]

A naive (untested) solution might want to do the following:

	hints.reflection()
		.registerType(TypeReference.of("org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.groovy.template.GroovyTemplateAvailabilityProvider$GroovyTemplateAvailabilityProperties"), 	
					MemberCategory.INVOKE_DECLARED_CONSTRUCTORS);

...or something to that effect.

[mhalbritter]

FYI: Spring Boot can now bind the properties, but this won't make groovy templates work.