While working on Spring Data support for Spring Native I see error messages coming from https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/main/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/support/ConstructorResolver.java#L279 I get exceptions like the one below.
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'elasticsearchAuditingHandler': Could not resolve matching constructor (hint: specify index/type/name arguments for simple parameters to avoid type ambiguities)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:279) ~[na:na]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1354) ~[na:na]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1204) ~[na:na]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:564) ~[na:na]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:524) ~[na:na]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$0(AbstractBeanFactory.java:335) ~[na:na]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:234) ~[na:na]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:333) ~[na:na]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:208) ~[na:na]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:944) ~[na:na]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:918) ~[na:na]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:583) ~[na:na]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:754) ~[data-elasticsearch:2.5.2]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:434) ~[data-elasticsearch:2.5.2]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:338) ~[data-elasticsearch:2.5.2]
at com.example.data.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchApplication.main(ElasticsearchApplication.java:33) ~[data-elasticsearch:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT]
Unfortunately it does not contain information about the class to be constructed, which would be really helpful when trying to get things in Spring Native to work.
I think this happens when we construct BeanDefinitions programmatically, but I’m not completely sure about that.
It would be great if the error message could be improved to always include the class name to be constructed.