intellij incorrectly saying no beans of type found for autowired repository

Question

I have created a simple unit test but IntelliJ is incorrectly highlighting it red. marking it as an error

No beans?

Answer 1

Surprisingly, A Feign oriented project that successfully ran with Eclipse could not run in InteliJ. When started the application, InteliJ complained about the Feign client I tried to inject to the serviceImpl layer saying: field personRestClient (my Feign client) in ... required a bean of type ... that could not be found. Consider defining a bean of type '....' in your configuration.

I wasted a long time trying to understand what is wrong. I found a solution (for InteliJ) which I do not completely understand:

1. Alt Shift F10 (or run menu)
2. Select 'Edit configuration'
3. In configuration window, Check the checkbox 'include dependencies with "Provided" scope'
4. Run your application

Or choose Eclipse :)