Why does Spring Data MongoDB 1.5.2 fail a with NoSuchMethodError?

Question

I can't seem to get the most basic MongoTemplate to initialize with spring-mongodb.

Here's the relevant extract from my POM:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.6.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-data-mongodb</artifactId>
    <version>1.5.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

My XML context setup looks like this:

<mongo:db-factory id="mongoDbFactory"
                  host="${mongo.host}"
                  port="${mongo.port}"
                  dbname="${mongo.db}"/>

<bean id="mongoTemplate" class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.MongoTemplate">
    <constructor-arg name="mongoDbFactory" ref="mongoDbFactory"/>
</bean>

This results in:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.DefaultMongoTypeMapper
    org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappingMongoConverter.<init>(MappingMongoConverter.java:104)
    org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.MongoTemplate.getDefaultMongoConverter(MongoTemplate.java:1670)
    org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.MongoTemplate.<init>(MongoTemplate.java:205)
    org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.MongoTemplate.<init>(MongoTemplate.java:191)
...

Debugging the initialization of DefaultMongoTypeMapper reveals:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.data.util.ClassTypeInformation.from(Ljava/lang/Class;)Lorg/springframework/data/util/TypeInformation;

I've tried all sorts of different version combinations for spring-core and spring-data, as well as trying to manually specify a version of spring-data-commons, no dice.

Is there something basic I'm doing wrong here?

EDIT: Full trace of error is:

Error creating bean with name 'mongoTemplate' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.MongoTemplate]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.data.util.ClassTypeInformation.from(Ljava/lang/Class;)Lorg/springframework/data/util/TypeInformation;
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:288)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1120)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:522)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:461)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:295)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:292)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:607)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:932)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:479)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:647)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:598)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:661)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:517)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:458)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:138)

Answer 1

As indicated in the ticket you filed, Spring Data MongoDB 1.5.2 requires Spring Data Commons 1.8.2 (or any other 1.8.x version). The Spring version has to be at least 3.2.10 (although Spring itself doesn't play into the exception you see as it is about a tiny signature change in Spring Data Common's ClassTypeInformation). If that's the case, you won't see the original exception.

We generally recommend to use the Spring Data Releasetrain BOM or the Spring IO platform instead of manually dealing with versions.