[QUERY] Why is azure-spring-cloud-starter-appconfiguration-config not part of spring-cloud-azure-dependencies 4.3.0?

[ac-rdn]

Query/Question
After upgrading spring-cloud-azure-dependencies to the latest version 4.3.0, I have to manually add dependency azure-spring-cloud-starter-appconfiguration-config (version 2.8.0) in order to load the configuration for my Spring Boot application from Azure Cloud Config Store.
Part of the Spring Cloud Azure 4.0 design changes was/is a simplified dependency management using a single spring-cloud-azure-dependencies BOM. And that's awesome! 👍 That's why I wonder if this is intended behavior? Because now I still have to maintain 2 versions: one for the BOM & one for the starter appconfiguration config.

Why is this not a Bug or a feature Request?
If the dependency is added, it works correctly.

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• IDE: IntelliJ
• Library/Libraries: com.azure.spring:spring-cloud-azure-dependencies:4.3.0, com.azure.spring:azure-spring-cloud-starter-appconfiguration-config:2.8.0

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[mrm9084]

@ac-rdn, the App Configuration libraries haven't moved over to the knew design yet as there are some conflicts with missing features. The Feature Management library has a beta to move it up to the 4.0 design. And the other library is currently being worked on to be updated.

@stliu, can we get the App Config libraries into the BOM before the 4.0 update is made to them. There is no conflict with dependencies.

[saragluna]

@mrm9084 there were two main reasons for not adding App Config libraries to the Spring Cloud Cloud Azure BOM:

• The App Config Spring libraries haven't been moved to the 4.0 design yet
• The release cadence may differ between App Config ones and 4.0 libs. If there's any change to one module of the 4.0 libs, we will release a new version for all of them.

So we'd better add App Config libs to the BOM after it's been moved to 4.0.

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[ac-rdn]

Which additional information do I need to provide to help address this issue (and prevent it from being automatically closed)

[mrm9084]

That might have even a side effect of me @ing you. We need no additional information at this moment.

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[ac-rdn]

Which additional information do I need to provide to help address this issue (and prevent it from being automatically closed)?

[mrm9084]

@ac-rdn, not sure why that popped up.

Status on this. The reason it isn't in the dependency list at the moment is that it doesn't have a 4.0 version. Currently there is a PR up to make one, but it doesn't seem like it will be merged/released any time soon. The current App Config version works fine with the other libraries, it just doesn't support the global properties for configuration.

[yanivnahoum]

@mrm9084 Now I see that spring-cloud-azure-starter-appconfiguration-config v4.7.0 is managed correctly by spring-cloud-azure-dependencies v4.7.0, but is still missing from v5.1.0 bom, even though the change log says it's been added, AND the starter itself has a v5.1.0.

[saragluna]

@yanivnahoum, we apologize for the mistake of leaving out the starter from the bom. We will include it in the upcoming release, which could be either 5.1.1 or 5.2.0.

[yanivnahoum]

Thanks @saragluna !

[saragluna]

App configuration-related libs have been added to Spring Cloud Azure BOM for the latest version of both 4.x and 5.x. Closing this issue now.