Dependency issue with spring-beans from spring-context

[abhiramj4]

Hi all, I'm noticing that when updating to spring-context 6.2.12, there is an issue where where spring-beans 6.2.11 is still used. This is causing a bug where spring-context is trying to call a function that does not exist called prepareSingletonBootstrap(). I notice this when creating a new spring boot project and specifying spring-context 6.2.12, when running mvn package I see this:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext for [MergedContextConfiguration@7ea08277 testClass = com.example.demo.DemoApplicationTests, locations = [], classes = [com.example.demo.DemoApplication], contextInitializerClasses = [], activeProfiles = [], propertySourceDescriptors = [], propertySourceProperties = ["org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTestContextBootstrapper=true"], contextCustomizers = [org.springframework.boot.test.context.filter.ExcludeFilterContextCustomizer@3de8f619, org.springframework.boot.test.json.DuplicateJsonObjectContextCustomizerFactory$DuplicateJsonObjectContextCustomizer@7bd7d6d6, org.springframework.boot.test.mock.mockito.MockitoContextCustomizer@0, org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplateContextCustomizer@5c7933ad, org.springframework.boot.test.autoconfigure.OnFailureConditionReportContextCustomizerFactory$OnFailureConditionReportContextCustomizer@2dfaea86, org.springframework.boot.test.autoconfigure.actuate.observability.ObservabilityContextCustomizerFactory$DisableObservabilityContextCustomizer@1f, org.springframework.boot.test.autoconfigure.properties.PropertyMappingContextCustomizer@0, org.springframework.boot.test.autoconfigure.web.servlet.WebDriverContextCustomizer@2657d4dd, org.springframework.test.context.support.DynamicPropertiesContextCustomizer@0, org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTestAnnotation@3e7d37fb], contextLoader = org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootContextLoader, parent = null] at org.springframework.test.context.cache.DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext(DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:180) at org.springframework.test.context.support.DefaultTestContext.getApplicationContext(DefaultTestContext.java:130) at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.injectDependencies(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:155) at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.prepareTestInstance(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:111) at org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager.prepareTestInstance(TestContextManager.java:260) at org.springframework.test.context.junit.jupiter.SpringExtension.postProcessTestInstance(SpringExtension.java:159) at java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.accept(ForEachOps.java:184) at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:197) at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$2$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:179) at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:197) at java.base/java.util.ArrayList$ArrayListSpliterator.forEachRemaining(ArrayList.java:1708) at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:509) at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:499) at java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:151) at java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:174) at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234) at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.forEach(ReferencePipeline.java:596) at java.base/java.util.Optional.orElseGet(Optional.java:364) at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1596) at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1596) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'void org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory.prepareSingletonBootstrap()' at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.handleRunFailure(SpringApplication.java:823) at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:328) at org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootContextLoader.lambda$loadContext$3(SpringBootContextLoader.java:144) at org.springframework.util.function.ThrowingSupplier.get(ThrowingSupplier.java:58) at org.springframework.util.function.ThrowingSupplier.get(ThrowingSupplier.java:46) at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.withHook(SpringApplication.java:1461) at org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootContextLoader$ContextLoaderHook.run(SpringBootContextLoader.java:563) at org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootContextLoader.loadContext(SpringBootContextLoader.java:144) at org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootContextLoader.loadContext(SpringBootContextLoader.java:110) at org.springframework.test.context.cache.DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContextInternal(DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:225) at org.springframework.test.context.cache.DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext(DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:152) ... 19 more Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'void org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory.prepareSingletonBootstrap()' at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:940) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:627) at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:752) at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:439) at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:318) ... 28 more

On another application, I see this error message:

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APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:

An attempt was made to call a method that does not exist. The attempt was made from the following location:

    org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:940)

The following method did not exist:

    'void org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory.prepareSingletonBootstrap()'

The calling method's class, org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext, was loaded from the following location:

    jar:nested:/nix/store/application-name-0.0.17/app.jar/!BOOT-INF/lib/spring-context-6.2.12.jar!/org/springframework/context/support/AbstractApplicationContext.class

The called method's class, org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory, is available from the following locations:

    jar:nested:/nix/store/application-name-0.0.17/app.jar/!BOOT-INF/lib/spring-beans-6.2.11.jar!/org/springframework/beans/factory/config/ConfigurableListableBeanFactory.class

The called method's class hierarchy was loaded from the following locations:

    org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory: jar:nested:/nix/store/applicaiton-name-0.0.17/app.jar/!BOOT-INF/lib/spring-beans-6.2.11.jar!/


Action:

Correct the classpath of your application so that it contains compatible versions of the classes org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext and org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory

So far, what I've tried that works is to bump spring-beans to version 6.2.12 and this seems to work. Is this an issue that anybody else is experiencing?

[jhoeller]

We generally do not support mixed versions of the core Spring Framework jars. You'll consistently have to use 6.2.12, otherwise there is no guarantee that interdependencies will work out. In this case, it's simply a new method introduced in spring-beans that spring-context is consuming right away in the same 6.2.12 version.