Why are my Spring Data repositories not found if moved into another package of a Spring Boot application?

Question

I created a new project in Eclipse from these helpful spring examples (Import Getting Started Content). It is called "gs-accessing-data-rest-complete"

Reference and full Code can be found: spring-guides/gs-accessing-data-rest

When leaving the example unchanged, except using WAR instead of JAR packaging, everything works well. When calling $ curl http://localhost:8080/, I'll get an exposure of usable resources.

$ curl http://localhost:8080/
{
  "_links" : {
    "people" : {
      "href" : "http://localhost:8080/name{?page,size,sort}",
      "templated" : true
    },
"profile" : {
  "href" : "http://localhost:8080/alps"
    }
  }

But when moving the PersonRepository into another package, e.g. myRepos via Eclipse's Refactor-->Move command, a resource is not accessible anymore.

The response from curl is then:

$ curl http://localhost:8080/
{
  "_links" : {
    "profile" : {
      "href" : "http://localhost:8080/alps"
    }
  }
}

As far as I understood, Spring scans for Repositories automatically. Because the main class uses @SpringBootApplication annotation, everything should be found by spring itself.

What am I missing? Do I have to add some special XML configuration file or add another Configuration Class somewhere? Or do I have to update application.properties in order to sth.?

Perhaps somebody has some useful experiences, she or he might share with me. Thank you.

Answer 1

Try specifying the base package to use when scanning for repositories by using this annotation on your config class: @EnableJpaRepositories(basePackages = "your.base.repository.package")