SpringBoot Use AntPathMatcher at AutoConfigurationImportSelector

Spring Boot *AutoConfiguration-classes exclusion management is actually a hell. Thanks to the spring-boot-autoconfigure module which is suited to be a global module for everything.

The issue that has motivated me to do such pull request is all the things that have been pulled up when I added spring-boot-starter-data-r2dbc and org.jooq:jooq dependencies. Adding these dependencies automatically triggers creation of ConnectionFactory, TransactionManager, repository support released beans, JOOQ' related DSL and Configuration beans creation. BUT I was needed only to have ConnectionFactory!.

I don't want to manage transactions through Spring. And I don't want Spring to create JOOQ related beans — I am going to manage them right in the business logic code using DSL.using(connectionFactory). ... API.

So I started to exclude these auto configurations manually. My main method with @SpringAutoConfiguration annotation started to getting bigger on the almost fresh project. At another project it already has 15 exclusionName rules !

@SpringBootApplication(
    excludeName = [
        "org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.flyway.FlywayAutoConfiguration",
        "org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.r2dbc.R2dbcAutoConfiguration",
        "org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.r2dbc.R2dbcTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration",
        "org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jooq.JooqAutoConfiguration",
    ]
)
class SpringAutoconfigurePracticeApplication

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    runApplication<SpringAutoconfigurePracticeApplication>(*args)
}

Comparing to Spring, Micronaut doesn't have such problem because configuration classes ship with features inside the same jar. Hence, if you don't need some configuration to apply or even to exist — just remove the jar from the classpath.

I suggest to allow glob patterns in excludeName parameter to make this block shorter:

@SpringBootApplication(
    excludeName = [
        "org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.flyway", // valid because exact path
        "org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.r2dbc.*", // valid glob
        "org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jooq.**", // valid glob
    ]
)
class SpringAutoconfigurePracticeApplication

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    runApplication<SpringAutoconfigurePracticeApplication>(*args)
}

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Comment From: wilkinsona

Thanks for the proposal. I don't think we understand the problem well enough to evaluate a possible change. Let's use #33116 to gain that understanding.