Spring Boot Custom ContextLoaderListener - resteasy

Question

I am trying to use RestEasy with Spring Boot. I need to configure it so it uses RestEasy's SpringContextLoaderListener instead of the Spring Boot default. I tried adding the listener in the config class but I get an error saying that a Context Loader Listener already exists.
Is there a way I can do this?

Answer 1

Rather than trying to use RESTEasy's SpringContextLoaderListener, you should be able to get this to work by dependency on org.jboss.resteasy:rest easy-spring and importing its springmvc-resteasy.xml configuration:
package sample.resteasy;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.WebMvcAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
#Configuration
#ComponentScan
#EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude=WebMvcAutoConfiguration.class)
#ImportResource("classpath:springmvc-resteasy.xml")
public class SampleResteasyApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(SampleResteasyApplication.class, args);
}
}
Note that WebMvcAutoConfiguration has been disabled. This is to work around a problem with RESTEasy's SpringBeanProcessor that causes a failure when it encounters a non-public #Bean method. WebMvcAutoConfiguration declares such a method so, to get RESTEasy to work, it has to be disabled.