Error creating bean with name 'rabbitListenerContainerFactory'

Question

I have a spring boot microservice: Zuul-api-gateway-server, and I am trying to implement a Zipkin server listening to rabbitmq for logging messages within the microservice.

I have added the following dependencies to this microservice:

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-sleuth-zipkin</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.amqp</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-rabbit</artifactId>
    </dependency>

I have started the Zipkin server using the following commands:

SET RABBIT_URI=amqp://localhost java -jar zipkin.jar

I then try to start up the microservice however I get the following error:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'rabbitListenerContainerFactory' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/amqp/RabbitAnnotationDrivenConfiguration.class]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:584) ~[spring-beans-5.1.3.RELEASE.jar:5.1.3.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:498) ~[spring-beans-5.1.3.RELEASE.jar:5.1.3.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$0(AbstractBeanFactory.java:320) ~[spring-beans-5.1.3.RELEASE.jar:5.1.3.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222) ~[spring-beans-5.1.3.RELEASE.jar:5.1.3.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:318) ~[spring-beans-5.1.3.RELEASE.jar:5.1.3.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:199) ~[spring-beans-5.1.3.RELEASE.jar:5.1.3.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:846) ~[spring-beans-5.1.3.RELEASE.jar:5.1.3.RELEASE] at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:863) ~[spring-context-5.1.3.RELEASE.jar:5.1.3.RELEASE] at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:546) ~[spring-context-5.1.3.RELEASE.jar:5.1.3.RELEASE] at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.refresh(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:142) ~[spring-boot-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar:2.1.1.RELEASE] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:775) [spring-boot-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar:2.1.1.RELEASE] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:397) [spring-boot-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar:2.1.1.RELEASE] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:316) [spring-boot-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar:2.1.1.RELEASE] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1260) [spring-boot-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar:2.1.1.RELEASE] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1248) [spring-boot-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar:2.1.1.RELEASE] at com.shopping.sandbox.netflixzuulapigatewayserver.NetflixZuulApiGatewayServerApplication.main(NetflixZuulApiGatewayServerApplication.java:16) [classes/:na] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_171] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[na:1.8.0_171] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[na:1.8.0_171] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) ~[na:1.8.0_171] at org.springframework.boot.devtools.restart.RestartLauncher.run(RestartLauncher.java:49) [spring-boot-devtools-2.1.1.RELEASE.jar:2.1.1.RELEASE] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: null at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.config.AbstractRabbitListenerContainerFactory.getAdviceChain(AbstractRabbitListenerContainerFactory.java:198) ~[spring-rabbit-2.1.2.RELEASE.jar:2.1.2.RELEASE] at brave.spring.rabbit.SpringRabbitTracing.decorateSimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory(SpringRabbitTracing.java:170) ~[brave-instrumentation-spring-rabbit-5.4.4.jar:na] at org.springframework.cloud.sleuth.instrument.messaging.SleuthRabbitBeanPostProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(TraceMessagingAutoConfiguration.java:186) ~[spring-cloud-sleuth-core-2.1.0.M2.jar:2.1.0.M2] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:419) ~[spring-beans-5.1.3.RELEASE.jar:5.1.3.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1737) ~[spring-beans-5.1.3.RELEASE.jar:5.1.3.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:576) ~[spring-beans-5.1.3.RELEASE.jar:5.1.3.RELEASE] ... 20 common frames omitted

Did you copy paste your pom entries correctly? The correct artifactId for Sleuth Zipkin is spring-cloud-starter-zipkin — Brian Devins-Suresh

Bijaya Bhaskar Swain Bijaya Bhaskar Swain · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-19T06:47:57

As there is a bug in Spring AMQP, which will be fixed in Release 2.1.3 Issue link

For a tempory fix, you can enable retry properties to create advice chain.

spring.rabbitmq.listener.direct.retry.enabled=true
spring.rabbitmq.listener.simple.retry.enabled=true

Hope this resolves your problem.

Error creating bean with name 'rabbitListenerContainerFactory'

3 Answers