Spring native: Built image fails to run straight out of the box

[Haarolean]

Hi,

I haven't touched spring-native for a few years, and it seems to be broken even more than it used to be.

While trying to solve other related problems, I tried to run a demo app from scratch, which failed drastically.

Set up:

1. start.spring.io
2. maven, boot 3.1.0, java, jar, 17
3. dependencies: graalvm, configuration processor, devtools, lombok, jpa, validation

Outcome:

1. Jar runs fine
2. Native image doesn't:

 :: Spring Boot ::                (v3.1.0)

15:17:49.314 [main] ERROR org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication -- Application run failed
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not find class [com.example.demo.DemoApplication__ApplicationContextInitializer]
	at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.resolveClassName(ClassUtils.java:334)
	at org.springframework.context.aot.AotApplicationContextInitializer.instantiateInitializer(AotApplicationContextInitializer.java:80)
	at org.springframework.context.aot.AotApplicationContextInitializer.initialize(AotApplicationContextInitializer.java:71)
	at org.springframework.context.aot.AotApplicationContextInitializer.lambda$forInitializerClasses$0(AotApplicationContextInitializer.java:61)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.applyInitializers(SpringApplication.java:606)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.prepareContext(SpringApplication.java:386)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:310)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1305)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1294)
	at com.example.demo.DemoApplication.main(DemoApplication.java:10)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.example.demo.DemoApplication__ApplicationContextInitializer
	at [email protected]/java.lang.Class.forName(DynamicHub.java:1132)
	at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:284)
	at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.resolveClassName(ClassUtils.java:324)
	... 9 common frames omitted

I tried using spring-core 6.0.10-SNAPSHOT as has been suggested here, with no luck.
I have published the sources so you can save some time to reproduce the issue: here

[Haarolean]

Related: #32918, but with java, not kotlin.

[wilkinsona]

It sounds like your application hasn't been AOT-processed, perhaps because it was not built with the correct command. Did you use ./mvnw native:compile -Pnative as described in the HELP.md file of the project generated by start.spring.io?

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[Haarolean]

Hi Andy, thanks for your swift reply.
Indeed, I tried to rebuild the image again, the same way with mvn clean package -Pnative, but couldn't reproduce this anymore.
Got a lot of frustration with trying to get native images working, probably haven't paid enough attention after fighting with this for days.
Thanks again!