Upgrade to Spring Boot 1.5.4 causes NoSuchBeanDefinitionException No qualifying bean of type PlatformTransactionManager

Question

I currently have a java web application with Spring Boot 1.3.8 and I use Maven + Cucumber + TestNG + failsafe maven plugin to run tests during build time. It works fine.

When I migrate Spring Boot to 1.5.4 I get the following error running the maven build for cucumber test. Any thoughts?

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type 'org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager' available
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBean(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:353)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBean(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:340)
    at cucumber.api.spring.SpringTransactionHooks.obtainPlatformTransactionManager(SpringTransactionHooks.java:70)
    at cucumber.api.spring.SpringTransactionHooks.startTransaction(SpringTransactionHooks.java:60)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor21.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at cucumber.runtime.Utils$1.call(Utils.java:37)
    at cucumber.runtime.Timeout.timeout(Timeout.java:13)
    at cucumber.runtime.Utils.invoke(Utils.java:31)
    at cucumber.runtime.java.JavaHookDefinition.execute(JavaHookDefinition.java:60)
    at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.runHookIfTagsMatch(Runtime.java:223)
    at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.runHooks(Runtime.java:211)
    at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.runBeforeHooks(Runtime.java:201)
    at cucumber.runtime.model.CucumberScenario.run(CucumberScenario.java:40)
    at cucumber.runtime.model.CucumberFeature.run(CucumberFeature.java:165)
    at cucumber.api.testng.TestNGCucumberRunner.runCucumber(TestNGCucumberRunner.java:63)
    at cucumber.api.testng.AbstractTestNGCucumberTests.feature(AbstractTestNGCucumberTests.java:21)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor23.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:108)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:661)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:869)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:1193)
    at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:126)
    at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:109)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:744)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:602)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:380)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:375)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:340)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:289)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1301)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1226)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1144)
    at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1115)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.run(TestNGExecutor.java:115)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.executeSingleClass(TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.java:129)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.execute(TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.java:113)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGProvider.invoke(TestNGProvider.java:111)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.invokeProviderInSameClassLoader(ForkedBooter.java:203)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:155)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:103)

I have changed some Spring Boot configurations according to the release notes (1.4). https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/wiki/Spring-Boot-1.4-Release-Notes

From:

@WebIntegrationTest
@ContextConfiguration(classes = WebTestConfig.class, loader = SpringApplicationContextLoader.class)

To:

@SpringBootTest(classes = WebTestConfig.class, webEnvironment = WebEnvironment.DEFINED_PORT)

All the rest remained the same as before.

Maven plugin:

<profile>
  <id>cucumber-tests</id>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <includes>
            <include>**/*IT.java</include>
            <include>**/CucumberRunnerTestNG.java</include>
          </includes>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</profile>

Cucumber Test Runner:

@CucumberOptions(plugin = { "pretty" }, strict = true, 
     features = "src/test/features/cucumber", 
     glue = { "my.web.cucumber", "cucumber.api.spring" }, 
     monochrome = true, tags = { "~@Ignore" })
public class CucumberRunnerTestNG extends AbstractTestNGCucumberTests {
}

Cucumber base Steps Class:

package my.web.cucumber.steps;

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest(classes = WebTestConfig.class, webEnvironment = WebEnvironment.DEFINED_PORT)
public abstract class BaseSteps<T> { ... }

Answer 1

you have to use @Transactional("transactionManagerName")

See org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional (@Transactional) annotation javadoc:-

http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.1.x/javadoc-api/org/springframework/transaction/annotation/EnableTransactionManagement.html

For those that wish to establish a more direct relationship between @EnableTransactionManagement and the exact transaction manager bean to be used, the TransactionManagementConfigurer callback interface may be implemented - notice the implements clause and the @Override-annotated method below: Your @Configuration class needs to implement TransactionManagementConfigurer interface - implement the annotationDrivenTransactionManager which will return the reference to the transactionManager that should be used.