Bean named mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector of type org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.HandlerMappingIntrospector required to use MvcRequestMatcher

Question

When I run my Spring Boot application I get this error when using this below code:

Bean named mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector of type org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.HandlerMappingIntrospector required to use MvcRequestMatcher

My pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.1</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.web</groupId>
    <artifactId>ecommerce</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>ecommerce</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
    <properties>
        <java.version>17</java.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-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <!-- <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
            <version>6.0.1</version>
        </dependency> -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.thymeleaf.extras</groupId>
            <artifactId>thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity6</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
            <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-security-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
            <version>1.18.20</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <!-- <dependency>
            <groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
            <artifactId>jjwt-api</artifactId>
            <version>0.11.5</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
            <artifactId>jjwt-impl</artifactId>
            <version>0.11.5</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
            <artifactId>jjwt-jackson</artifactId>
            <version>0.11.5</version>
        </dependency> -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.webjars/bootstrap-datepicker -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.webjars</groupId>
            <artifactId>bootstrap-datepicker</artifactId>
            <version>1.9.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.webjars/bootstrap -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.webjars</groupId>
            <artifactId>bootstrap</artifactId>
            <version>5.2.3</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.webjars/jquery -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.webjars</groupId>
            <artifactId>jquery</artifactId>
            <version>3.6.1</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationManager;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationProvider;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.dao.DaoAuthenticationProvider;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.authentication.configuration.AuthenticationConfiguration;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.builders.HttpSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.EnableWebSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetailsService;
import org.springframework.security.crypto.bcrypt.BCryptPasswordEncoder;
import org.springframework.security.crypto.password.NoOpPasswordEncoder;
import org.springframework.security.crypto.password.PasswordEncoder;
import org.springframework.security.web.SecurityFilterChain;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.HandlerMappingIntrospector;

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public class SecurityConfiguration {

  @Bean
  public UserDetailsService userDetailsService() {
    return new CustomUserDetailsService();
  }

  @Bean
  public AuthenticationProvider authenticationProvider() {
    DaoAuthenticationProvider authProvider = new DaoAuthenticationProvider();
    authProvider.setUserDetailsService(userDetailsService());
    authProvider.setPasswordEncoder(passwordEncoder());
    return authProvider;
  }

  @Bean
  public AuthenticationManager authenticationManager(AuthenticationConfiguration config) throws Exception {
    return config.getAuthenticationManager();
  }

  @Bean
  public PasswordEncoder passwordEncoder() {
    return NoOpPasswordEncoder.getInstance();

    // return new BCryptPasswordEncoder();
  }

 
// @Bean(name = "mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector")
// public HandlerMappingIntrospector mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector() {
// return new HandlerMappingIntrospector();
//   }

  @Bean
  public SecurityFilterChain securityFilterChain(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
    http
        .csrf().disable()
        .cors().disable()
        .authorizeHttpRequests()
        .requestMatchers("/admin/**").hasRole("ADMIN")
        .anyRequest()
        .authenticated()
        .and()
        .formLogin()
        .loginPage("/login")
        .usernameParameter("email")
        .loginProcessingUrl("/login")
        .defaultSuccessUrl("/admin/index")
        .permitAll()
        .and()
        .logout()
        .logoutUrl("/admin/logout")
        .logoutSuccessUrl("/home");

    return http.build();
  }
}

The error I got:

  .   ____          _            __ _ _
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( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \
 \\/  ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| |  ) ) ) )
  '  |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / /
 =========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/
 :: Spring Boot ::                (v3.0.1)

2023-01-11T15:41:43.510+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] c.alibou.security.SecurityApplication    : Starting SecurityApplication using Java 17.0.5 with PID 176088 (C:\Users\guruk\Desktop\springboot 3\spring-boot-3-jwt-security-main\target\classes started by guruk in C:\Users\guruk\Desktop\springboot 3\spring-boot-3-jwt-security-main)
2023-01-11T15:41:43.517+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] c.alibou.security.SecurityApplication    : No active profile set, falling back to 1 default profile: "default"
2023-01-11T15:41:44.558+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] .s.d.r.c.RepositoryConfigurationDelegate : Bootstrapping Spring Data JPA repositories in DEFAULT mode.
2023-01-11T15:41:44.669+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] .s.d.r.c.RepositoryConfigurationDelegate : Finished Spring Data repository scanning in 83 ms. Found 1 JPA repository interfaces.
2023-01-11T15:41:45.162+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] o.hibernate.jpa.internal.util.LogHelper  : HHH000204: Processing PersistenceUnitInfo [name: default]
2023-01-11T15:41:45.306+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] org.hibernate.Version                    : HHH000412: Hibernate ORM core version 6.1.6.Final
2023-01-11T15:41:45.629+05:30  WARN 176088 --- [           main] org.hibernate.orm.deprecation            : HHH90000021: Encountered deprecated setting [javax.persistence.sharedCache.mode], use [jakarta.persistence.sharedCache.mode] instead
2023-01-11T15:41:45.810+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource       : HikariPool-1 - Starting...
2023-01-11T15:41:46.164+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool        : HikariPool-1 - Added connection org.postgresql.jdbc.PgConnection@11b5f4e2
2023-01-11T15:41:46.169+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource       : HikariPool-1 - Start completed.
2023-01-11T15:41:46.269+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] SQL dialect                              : HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect
2023-01-11T15:41:47.131+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] o.h.e.t.j.p.i.JtaPlatformInitiator       : HHH000490: Using JtaPlatform implementation: [org.hibernate.engine.transaction.jta.platform.internal.NoJtaPlatform]
2023-01-11T15:41:47.154+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] j.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean : Initialized JPA EntityManagerFactory for persistence unit 'default'
2023-01-11T15:41:47.788+05:30  WARN 176088 --- [           main] s.c.a.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext : Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.UnsatisfiedDependencyException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfiguration': Unsatisfied dependency expressed through method 'setFilterChains' parameter 0: Error creating bean with name 'securityFilterChain' defined in class path resource [com/alibou/security/config/SecurityConfiguration.class]: Failed to instantiate [org.springframework.security.web.SecurityFilterChain]: Factory method 'securityFilterChain' threw exception with message: No bean named 'A Bean named mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector of type org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.HandlerMappingIntrospector is required to use MvcRequestMatcher. Please ensure Spring Security & Spring MVC are configured in a shared ApplicationContext.' available
2023-01-11T15:41:47.792+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] j.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean : Closing JPA EntityManagerFactory for persistence unit 'default'
2023-01-11T15:41:47.799+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource       : HikariPool-1 - Shutdown initiated...     
2023-01-11T15:41:47.805+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource       : HikariPool-1 - Shutdown completed.       
2023-01-11T15:41:47.831+05:30  INFO 176088 --- [           main] .s.b.a.l.ConditionEvaluationReportLogger : 

Error starting ApplicationContext. To display the condition evaluation report re-run your application with 'debug' enabled.
2023-01-11T15:41:47.904+05:30 ERROR 176088 --- [           main] o.s.b.d.LoggingFailureAnalysisReporter   : 

***************************
APPLICATION FAILED TO START
***************************

Description:

Parameter 0 of method setFilterChains in org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfiguration required a bean named 'A Bean named mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector of type org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.HandlerMappingIntrospector is required to use MvcRequestMatcher. Please ensure Spring Security & Spring MVC are configured in a shared ApplicationContext.' that could not be found.


Action:

Consider defining a bean named 'A Bean named mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector of type org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.HandlerMappingIntrospector is required to use MvcRequestMatcher. Please ensure Spring Security & Spring MVC are configured in a shared ApplicationContext.' in your configuration.

When I uncomment this part:

 @Bean(name = "mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector")
   public HandlerMappingIntrospector mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector() {
     return new HandlerMappingIntrospector();
   }

and run application I got no error but the application is shutting down automatically just after running:

  .   ____          _            __ _ _
 /\\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __  __ _ \ \ \ \
( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \
 \\/  ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| |  ) ) ) )
  '  |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / /
 =========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/
 :: Spring Boot ::                (v3.0.1)

2023-01-11T15:53:45.269+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] com.web.ecommerce.EcommerceApplication   : Starting EcommerceApplication using Java 17.0.5 with PID 177140 (C:\Users\guruk\Desktop\springboot 3\ecommerce\target\classes started by guruk in C:\Users\guruk\Desktop\springboot 3\ecommerce)
2023-01-11T15:53:45.277+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] com.web.ecommerce.EcommerceApplication   : No active profile set, falling back to 1 default profile: "default"
2023-01-11T15:53:45.405+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] .e.DevToolsPropertyDefaultsPostProcessor : Devtools property defaults active! Set 'spring.devtools.add-properties' to 'false' to disable
2023-01-11T15:53:45.406+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] .e.DevToolsPropertyDefaultsPostProcessor : For additional web related logging consider setting the 'logging.level.web' property to 'DEBUG'
2023-01-11T15:53:46.684+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] .s.d.r.c.RepositoryConfigurationDelegate : Bootstrapping Spring Data JPA repositories in DEFAULT mode.
2023-01-11T15:53:46.783+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] .s.d.r.c.RepositoryConfigurationDelegate : Finished Spring Data repository scanning in 87 ms. Found 1 JPA repository interfaces.
2023-01-11T15:53:47.316+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] o.hibernate.jpa.internal.util.LogHelper  : HHH000204: Processing PersistenceUnitInfo [name: default]
2023-01-11T15:53:47.404+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] org.hibernate.Version                    : HHH000412: Hibernate ORM core version 6.1.6.Final
2023-01-11T15:53:47.685+05:30  WARN 177140 --- [  restartedMain] org.hibernate.orm.deprecation            : HHH90000021: Encountered deprecated setting [javax.persistence.sharedCache.mode], use [jakarta.persistence.sharedCache.mode] instead
2023-01-11T15:53:47.878+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource       : HikariPool-1 - Starting...
2023-01-11T15:53:48.292+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool        : HikariPool-1 - Added connection org.postgresql.jdbc.PgConnection@1fff2385
2023-01-11T15:53:48.295+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource       : HikariPool-1 - Start completed.
2023-01-11T15:53:48.393+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] SQL dialect                              : HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect
2023-01-11T15:53:49.209+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] o.h.e.t.j.p.i.JtaPlatformInitiator       : HHH000490: Using JtaPlatform implementation: [org.hibernate.engine.transaction.jta.platform.internal.NoJtaPlatform]
2023-01-11T15:53:49.223+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] j.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean : Initialized JPA EntityManagerFactory for persistence unit 'default'
2023-01-11T15:53:49.925+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.s.web.DefaultSecurityFilterChain     : Will secure any request with [org.springframework.security.web.session.DisableEncodeUrlFilter@62c9380d, org.springframework.security.web.context.request.async.WebAsyncManagerIntegrationFilter@338055eb, org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextHolderFilter@3a2d8a59, org.springframework.security.web.header.HeaderWriterFilter@50830605, org.springframework.security.web.authentication.logout.LogoutFilter@5879007b, org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter@2bf425d7, org.springframework.security.web.savedrequest.RequestCacheAwareFilter@3022c8b8, org.springframework.security.web.servletapi.SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter@2ae7a4be, org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationFilter@39d014d1, org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter@4bd290c2, org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.AuthorizationFilter@43525956]
2023-01-11T15:53:50.299+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.b.d.a.OptionalLiveReloadServer       : LiveReload server is running on port 35729
2023-01-11T15:53:50.462+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [  restartedMain] com.web.ecommerce.EcommerceApplication   : Started EcommerceApplication in 7.986 seconds (process running for 8.765)
2023-01-11T15:53:50.545+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [ionShutdownHook] j.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean : Closing JPA EntityManagerFactory for persistence unit 'default'
2023-01-11T15:53:50.570+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [ionShutdownHook] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource       : HikariPool-1 - Shutdown initiated...
2023-01-11T15:53:50.628+05:30  INFO 177140 --- [ionShutdownHook] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource       : HikariPool-1 - Shutdown completed.

Aliber

You marked your tomcat dependency as provided, hence not on the classpath so it won't start a server. Which explains the first error as well as there are missing classes / beans due to no server being started. – Manmade

Just a bit of context in addition to Deinum comments, the authorizeHttpRequests().requestMatchers(...) creates a MvcRequestMatcher if Spring MVC is detected on the classpath. The mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector bean should be in the same ApplicationContext as Spring Security in order to work. It is not common having to specify the bean yourself – Photogrammetry

now its working i removed a line in application property. which made the tomcat server not to run. – Aliber

Answer 1

spring.main.web-application-type=NONE

ensure that your application properties does not have following lines its the stop the start of inbuilt server of spring boot

Burnsides

Answer 2

I have solved this error by defining mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector bean as follows:

@Configuration
public class AppConfig {
[...]
    @Bean(name = "mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector")
    public HandlerMappingIntrospector mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector() {
        return new HandlerMappingIntrospector();
    }
}

Aristotelianism

Answer 3

I ran into a similar problem where it said "unable to create bean named mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector . So I first tried to manually configure it like that:

@Configuration
public class AppConfig {

    @Bean(name = "mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector")
    public HandlerMappingIntrospector mvcHandlerMappingIntrospector() {
        return new HandlerMappingIntrospector();
    }
}

than after some debugging I realised I had 2 similar endpoint in 2 different Controller. Changing one of those endpoints did the magic for me.

Haberdashery

Use markdown to format your answer - especially the [Java] code. – Syllepsis