java.lang.NoSuchMethodError on Kafka Consumer with spring-kafka 2.1.0 and SpringBoot 1.5.9

Question

I am trying to setup Kafka Consumer using SpringBoot(1.5.9) and Spring-kafka(2.1.0). However when I start my app I get java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.util.Assert.state(ZLjava/util/function/Supplier;)V on Kafka MessagingMessageListenerAdapter. I tried with Spring-Kafka(1.2.0) and that error went away. Has anyone else experienced this version incompatibility?

Here is my config class

@EnableKafka
@Configuration
public class ImporterConfigs{

static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(ImporterConfigs.class);

@Value("${kafka.bootstrap-servers}")
private static String bootstrapServers;

@Bean
public Map<String, Object> consumerKafkaConfigs() {
  Map<String, Object> props = new HashMap<>();
  // list of host:port pairs used for establishing the initial connections to the Kakfa cluster
  props.put(ConsumerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, bootstrapServers);
  props.put(ConsumerConfig.KEY_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringDeserializer.class);
  props.put(ConsumerConfig.VALUE_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringDeserializer.class);
  // allows a pool of processes to divide the work of consuming and processing records
  props.put(ConsumerConfig.GROUP_ID_CONFIG, "test-consumer-group");

  return props;
}

@Bean
public ConsumerFactory<String, String> consumerFactory() {
  return new DefaultKafkaConsumerFactory<>(consumerKafkaConfigs());
}

@Bean
public ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, String> kafkaListenerContainerFactory() {
    ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, String> factory =
            new ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<>();
    factory.setConsumerFactory(consumerFactory());


  return factory;
}

}

Here is the full stacktrace:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.util.Assert.state(ZLjava/util/function/Supplier;)V
at org.springframework.kafka.listener.adapter.MessagingMessageListenerAdapter.determineInferredType(MessagingMessageListenerAdapter.java:396) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.listener.adapter.MessagingMessageListenerAdapter.<init>(MessagingMessageListenerAdapter.java:100) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.listener.adapter.RecordMessagingMessageListenerAdapter.<init>(RecordMessagingMessageListenerAdapter.java:61) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.config.MethodKafkaListenerEndpoint.createMessageListenerInstance(MethodKafkaListenerEndpoint.java:172) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.config.MethodKafkaListenerEndpoint.createMessageListener(MethodKafkaListenerEndpoint.java:132) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.config.AbstractKafkaListenerEndpoint.setupMessageListener(AbstractKafkaListenerEndpoint.java:338) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.config.AbstractKafkaListenerEndpoint.setupListenerContainer(AbstractKafkaListenerEndpoint.java:323) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.config.AbstractKafkaListenerContainerFactory.createListenerContainer(AbstractKafkaListenerContainerFactory.java:227) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.config.AbstractKafkaListenerContainerFactory.createListenerContainer(AbstractKafkaListenerContainerFactory.java:49) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.config.KafkaListenerEndpointRegistry.createListenerContainer(KafkaListenerEndpointRegistry.java:183) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.config.KafkaListenerEndpointRegistry.registerListenerContainer(KafkaListenerEndpointRegistry.java:155) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.config.KafkaListenerEndpointRegistry.registerListenerContainer(KafkaListenerEndpointRegistry.java:129) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.config.KafkaListenerEndpointRegistrar.registerAllEndpoints(KafkaListenerEndpointRegistrar.java:138) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.config.KafkaListenerEndpointRegistrar.afterPropertiesSet(KafkaListenerEndpointRegistrar.java:132) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.kafka.annotation.KafkaListenerAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.afterSingletonsInstantiated(KafkaListenerAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:229) ~[spring-kafka-2.1.0.RELEASE.jar:2.1.0.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:781) ~[spring-beans-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar:4.3.13.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:867) ~[spring-context-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar:4.3.13.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:543) ~[spring-context-4.3.13.RELEASE.jar:4.3.13.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:122) ~[spring-boot-1.5.9.RELEASE.jar:1.5.9.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:693) [spring-boot-1.5.9.RELEASE.jar:1.5.9.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:360) [spring-boot-1.5.9.RELEASE.jar:1.5.9.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:303) [spring-boot-1.5.9.RELEASE.jar:1.5.9.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1118) [spring-boot-1.5.9.RELEASE.jar:1.5.9.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1107) [spring-boot-1.5.9.RELEASE.jar:1.5.9.RELEASE]
at com.vitechinc.springbootapplication.V3MessageImporterApplication.main(V3MessageImporterApplication.java:25) [classes/:na]

Answer 1

The Spring-kafka 2.1 is based on the Spring Framework 5.0 and that is exactly what you see with that error:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.util.Assert.state(ZLjava/util/function/Supplier;)

Spring Framework 4.3 (the foundation for Spring Boot 1.5) doesn't support Java 8 yet.

You should consider to switch to Spring Boot 2.0 or stick with the Spring Kafka 1.3.2 which is compatible with Boot 1.5 background and can be reconfigured for Apache Kafka 1.0 Client.