Springboot @RestController is never used

Question

I'm having trouble getting my spring-boot application working. It's just exposing a single endpoint at the moment. And it's just got a single controller to manage that. Here is the code below.

It builds fine and the tomcat server runs, I get the Whitelabel Error Page.

Full error from chrome console: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404.

src
--|main
----|java
------|com.domain.myproject.api
--------|Controller             <----(this is a package in intellij)
----------|RestController.java
--------|Springboot             <----(this is a package in intellij)
----------|SpringApplication.java

RESTController.java

package com.example.myproject.api.Controller;

import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@RestController
public class RESTController {

    @GetMapping("/view/{id}")
    public String hello (@PathVariable("id") String id){
        return "return" + id;
    }

}

SpringApplication.java

package com.example.myproject.api.Springboot;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class CustomsApiApplication {

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

pom-xml

These are the dependencies, which I will get to use.

<dependencies>
    <!--SpringBoot Dependencies-->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        <version>1.5.9.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Camel dependencies -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
        <artifactId>camel-core</artifactId>
        <version>2.20.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
        <artifactId>camel-jms</artifactId>
        <version>2.20.1</version>
    </dependency>

    <!-- ActiveMQ dependencies -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
        <artifactId>activemq-broker</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
        <artifactId>activemq-client</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
        <artifactId>activemq-camel</artifactId>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Thanks!

PS. Also get in the intellij run console. . .

2018-01-23 18:28:14.879 ERROR 10541 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] 
o.s.d.r.w.RepositoryRestExceptionHandler : Could not resolve repository 
metadata for 1234.

Answer 1

According to Spring boot documentation 14.2 Locating the main application class, it is recommended that you locate your main application class in a root package above other classes.

The @EnableAutoConfiguration annotation is often placed on your main class, and it implicitly defines a base “search package” for certain items. Using a root package also allows the @ComponentScan annotation to be used without needing to specify a basePackage attribute. Both these annotations are defined within @SpringBootApplication.

Answer 2

It seems like your problem is with the way your packages are structured, I would advise you to remove the CustomsApiApplication class from the current package to the base package which should be com.example.myproject

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