Added Springfox Swagger-UI and it's not working, what am I missing?

Question

Following the instructions here:

http://www.baeldung.com/swagger-2-documentation-for-spring-rest-api

I added these dependencies to my project:

Answer 1

I ran into this issue because I had endpoints with request mappings that had path variables of this form: /{var}. Turns out that this is an issue for both GET and POST endpoints i.e. GET /{var} and POST /{var} block swagger-ui. Once I made the paths more specific, I got swagger-ui to work.

Quote from https://github.com/springfox/springfox/issues/1672

When spring finds a simple path with just one variable swagger cannot intercept the URLs.

Found by investigating various ideas in comments.