Spring boot and controllers in imported modules

Question

I have a Spring boot application and I want to import a dependency written in spring boot that defines some controllers.

Maybe it is straightforward, but how can I made the main application able to initialize all these controllers in the imported module? When I try to access the path to these controllers I get a error for missing handler method for the given path. I tried as follows:

@SpringBootApplication
@ComponentScan(basePackages = {"com.main.project", "com.imported.dependency"})
public class MyApplication
    implements CommandLineRunner {

    public static void main(final String... args) {
        SpringApplication app = new SpringApplication(MyApplication.class);
        app.setWebEnvironment(true);
        app.run(args);

    }
}

i.e. I tried with @ComponentScan, but nothing happens.

I also tried to see if the controllers are loaded:

ApplicationContext ctx = SpringApplication.run(FrontendApplication.class, args);

System.out.println("Let's inspect the beans provided by Spring Boot:");

String[] beanNames = ctx.getBeanDefinitionNames();
Arrays.sort(beanNames);
for (String beanName : beanNames) {
    System.out.println(beanName);
}

They are not. I tried to remove @SpringBootApplication and to use @EnableAutoConfiguration and @ComponentScan, but this does not work.

Suggestions?

Answer 1

after the discussion on the main thread I tried to setup a small project that's like yours and I put it on github, I can't see any problem.

Give it a look https://github.com/e-ivaldi/mat_boy_test

This is from the log 2015-10-24 17:22:02.900 INFO 31901 --- [ main] s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping : Mapped "{[/**]}" onto public java.lang.String com.somethingelse.controllers.SimpleController.xxx()