Spring boot application not able to find bean for feign client

Question

Getting below exception while testing feign functionality.
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APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:

Field currencyConversionServiceProxy in com.in28minutes.microservices.currencyconversionservice.CurrencyConversionController required a bean of type 'com.in28minutes.microservices.currencyconversionservice.CurrencyConversionServiceProxy' that could not be found.

The injection point has the following annotations:
- @org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)

POM.xml

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.2.RELEASE</version>
    <relativePath /> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
....
<properties>
    <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    <spring-cloud.version>Hoxton.SR1</spring-cloud.version>
</properties>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-config</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-openfeign</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
        <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
                <artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

 <dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>${spring-cloud.version}</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

CurrencyConversionServiceApplication.java

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableFeignClients
public class CurrencyConversionServiceApplication {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
     SpringApplication.run(CurrencyConversionServiceApplication.class, args);
  }
}

CurrencyConversionController.java

@RestController
public class CurrencyConversionController {

  @Autowired
  private CurrencyConversionServiceProxy currencyConversionServiceProxy;

  @GetMapping("/currency-converter-feign/from/{from}/to/{to}/quantity/{quantity}")
  public CurrencyConversionBean convertCurrencyFeign(@PathVariable String from, @PathVariable String to,
        @PathVariable BigDecimal quantity) {

      CurrencyConversionBean response = currencyConversionServiceProxy.retrieveExchangeValue(from, to);
      return new CurrencyConversionBean(response.getId(), response.getFrom(), response.getTo(),
            response.getConversionMultiple(), quantity, quantity.multiply(response.getConversionMultiple()),
            response.getPort());
  }
}

CurrencyConversionServiceProxy.java

@FeignClient(name="currency-exchange-service", url="localhost:8000")
public interface CurrencyConversionServiceProxy {

  @GetMapping("/currency-exchange/from/{from}/to/{to}")
  public CurrencyConversionBean retrieveExchangeValue(@PathVariable("from") String from, @PathVariable("to") String to);

}

Logs

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 :: Spring Boot ::        (v2.2.2.RELEASE)

2019-12-28 14:19:27.788  INFO 11444 --- [  restartedMain] c.c.c.ConfigServicePropertySourceLocator : 
Fetching config from server at : http://localhost:8888
2019-12-28 14:19:28.805  INFO 11444 --- [  restartedMain] c.c.c.ConfigServicePropertySourceLocator : 
Connect Timeout Exception on Url - http://localhost:8888. Will be trying the next url if available
2019-12-28 14:19:28.805  WARN 11444 --- [  restartedMain] c.c.c.ConfigServicePropertySourceLocator : 
Could not locate PropertySource: I/O error on GET request for "http://localhost:8888/currency- 
conversion-service/default": Connection refused: connect; nested exception is 
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
2019-12-28 14:19:28.805  INFO 11444 --- [  restartedMain] m.c.CurrencyConversionServiceApplication : 
No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default
2019-12-28 14:19:28.921  INFO 11444 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.cloud.context.scope.GenericScope     : 
BeanFactory id=6fe0f2bd-0b38-367c-af3b-d79d3b2d9d52
2019-12-28 14:19:28.937  WARN 11444 --- [  restartedMain] org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.Registry  : 
The MBean registry cannot be disabled because it has already been initialised
2019-12-28 14:19:28.968  INFO 11444 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.b.w.embedded.tomcat.TomcatWebServer  : 
Tomcat initialized with port(s): 8100 (http)
2019-12-28 14:19:28.968  INFO 11444 --- [  restartedMain] o.apache.catalina.core.StandardService   : 
Starting service [Tomcat]
2019-12-28 14:19:28.984  INFO 11444 --- [  restartedMain] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine  : 
Starting Servlet engine: [Apache Tomcat/9.0.29]
2019-12-28 14:19:28.984  INFO 11444 --- [  restartedMain] o.a.c.c.C.[Tomcat-16].[localhost].[/]    : 
Initializing Spring embedded WebApplicationContext
2019-12-28 14:19:28.984  INFO 11444 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.web.context.ContextLoader            : 
Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 178 ms
2019-12-28 14:19:28.999  WARN 11444 --- [  restartedMain] ConfigServletWebServerApplicationContext : 
Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: 
org.springframework.beans.factory.UnsatisfiedDependencyException: Error creating bean with name 
'currencyConversionController': Unsatisfied dependency expressed through field 
'currencyConversionServiceProxy'; nested exception is 
org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type 
'com.in28minutes.microservices.currencyconversionservice.CurrencyConversionServiceProxy' available: 
expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate. Dependency annotations: 
{@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
2019-12-28 14:19:29.015  INFO 11444 --- [  restartedMain] o.apache.catalina.core.StandardService   : 
Stopping service [Tomcat]
2019-12-28 14:19:29.015  INFO 11444 --- [  restartedMain] ConditionEvaluationReportLoggingListener : 

Error starting ApplicationContext. To display the conditions report re-run your application with 
'debug' enabled.
2019-12-28 14:19:29.093 ERROR 11444 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.b.d.LoggingFailureAnalysisReporter   : 

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APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:

Field currencyConversionServiceProxy in 
com.in28minutes.microservices.currencyconversionservice.CurrencyConversionController required a bean 
of type 'com.in28minutes.microservices.currencyconversionservice.CurrencyConversionServiceProxy' 
that could not be found.

The injection point has the following annotations:
    - @org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)


Action:

Consider defining a bean of type 
'com.in28minutes.microservices.currencyconversionservice.CurrencyConversionServiceProxy' in your 
configuration.

I have tested service running at port 8000 is running fine under name "currency-exchange-service" only.

Answer 1

Try to specify a class name of a Feign client into @EnableFeignClients annotation. For example, in your case it should look like:

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableFeignClients(clients = {CurrencyConversionServiceProxy.class})
public class CurrencyConversionServiceApplication

Answer 2

You need to specify path for the FeignClients as @EnableFeignClients doesn't use component scan internally to identify the FeignClients within the application

soln->

@EnableFeignClients("com.in28minutes.microservices.currencyconversionservice")

Try the updated code as mentioned below

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableFeignClients("com.in28minutes.microservices.currencyconversionservice")
public class CurrencyConversionServiceApplication {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
     SpringApplication.run(CurrencyConversionServiceApplication.class, args);
  }
}