Web Console stopped working after transitioning from FF4J 1.9 to 2.0.0

[emecas]

Describe the bug

I have started from the documentation available here https://ff4j.org/#10min section: 2. Build the project step-by-step

I was able to setup a project from scratch and made it work (including Web Console), using version 1.9 (since 2.0.0 was not available), with the following configuration was:

implementation 'org.ff4j:ff4j-spring-boot-starter:1.9'
implementation 'org.ff4j:ff4j-web:1.9'

To Reproduce

Keeping the same configuration provided in the available documentation (FF4jConfig and FF4jWebConsoleConfiguration ):

@Configuration
public class FF4jConfig {
    
    @Bean
    public FF4j getFF4j() {
        FF4j ff4j = new FF4j();
        
        /* 
         * Implementation of each store. Here this is boiler plate as if nothing 
         * is specified the inmemory is used. Those are really the one that will
         * change depending on your technology.
         */
        ff4j.setFeatureStore(new InMemoryFeatureStore());
        ff4j.setPropertiesStore(new InMemoryPropertyStore());
        ff4j.setEventRepository(new InMemoryEventRepository());
 
        // Enabling audit and monitoring, default value is false
        ff4j.audit(true);
 
        // When evaluting not existing features, ff4j will create then but disabled 
        ff4j.autoCreate(true);
 
        // To define RBAC access, the application must have a logged user
        //ff4j.setAuthManager(...);
 
        // To define a cacher layer to relax the DB, multiple implementations
        //ff4j.cache([a cache Manager]);
        
        return ff4j;
    }
}

@Configuration
// Enable the REST API documentation
@EnableFF4jSwagger
// The class should be on classpath : FF4jDispatcherServlet
@ConditionalOnClass({FF4jDispatcherServlet.class})
// Setup FF4j first, not is required
@AutoConfigureAfter(FF4jConfig.class)
public class FF4jWebConsoleConfiguration extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
	
    @Bean
    @ConditionalOnMissingBean
    public FF4jDispatcherServlet defineFF4jServlet(FF4j ff4j) {
        FF4jDispatcherServlet ff4jConsoleServlet = new FF4jDispatcherServlet();
        ff4jConsoleServlet.setFf4j(ff4j);
        return ff4jConsoleServlet;
    }
    
    @Bean
    @SuppressWarnings({"rawtypes","unchecked"})
    public ServletRegistrationBean registerFF4jServlet(FF4jDispatcherServlet ff4jDispatcherServlet) {
        return new ServletRegistrationBean((javax.servlet.Servlet)ff4jDispatcherServlet, "/ff4j-web-console/*");
    }
}

I have tried these 3 different sets of dependencies with no success :

Set 1:

implementation 'org.ff4j:ff4j-spring-boot-starter-webmvc:2.0.0'
 

Set 2:

implementation 'org.ff4j:ff4j-spring-boot-starter-webmvc:2.0.0'
implementation 'org.ff4j:ff4j-spring-boot-starter-webflux:2.0.0' 

Set 3:

implementation 'org.ff4j:ff4j-spring-boot-starter-webmvc:2.0.0'
implementation 'org.ff4j:ff4j-spring-boot-starter-webflux:2.0.0' 
implementation 'org.ff4j:ff4j-web:2.0.0'

Noticed features expected functionality seems to still working properly, but Web Consoled is not available anymore, see screenshot.

Expected behavior

Web Consoled working same as when using version 1.9:

Otherways, available documentation about possible required configuration changes to make the Web Console works with 2.0.0 (I can help with the documentation once overcome the issue)

Screenshots

[paul58914080]

Have you tried https://github.com/ff4j/ff4j-samples/tree/master/ff4j-spring-boot-samples/ff4j-spring-boot-starter-webmvc-sample ?

implementation 'org.ff4j:ff4j-spring-boot-starter-webmvc:2.0.0'

It comes by default with the web console, so you wouldn't need the additional web configuration that you proposed i.e. FF4jWebConsoleConfiguration

[emecas]

yes, I did, and from there I added to my app CORSConfig and removed FF4jWebConsoleConfiguration configuration, but starting to think that 2.0.0 is only compatible to SpringBoot 3.x , since even the available examples here and here for the console using SpringBoot 2.x are still using FF4J 1.8.5

[paul58914080]

Yes, indeed the starters of 2x i.e. ff4j-spring-boot-starter-webmvc:2.0.0 is ONLY compatible with spring boot 3x.

The examples needs to be updated. I take that point.

[emecas]

@paul58914080 Is there a plan to release a version 19.1, since it is not yet possible for me to upgrade to version 2.0.0/spring boot 3x.

Here is a list of the main security threats related to version 1.9:

Security-Critical org.springframework : spring-web : 5.3.18
Security-Critical org.springframework.security : spring-security-config : 5.6.2
Security-Critical org.springframework.security : spring-security-web : 5.6.2
Security-Critical org.yaml : snakeyaml : 1.29
Security-High com.fasterxml.jackson.core : jackson-core : 2.13.2
Security-High com.fasterxml.jackson.core : jackson-databind : 2.13.2.2
Security-High com.google.code.gson : gson : 2.6.2
Security-High commons-fileupload : commons-fileupload : 1.4
Security-High org.apache.tomcat.embed : tomcat-embed-core : 9.0.60
Security-High org.springframework : spring-webmvc : 5.3.18
Security-High org.springframework.boot : spring-boot-autoconfigure : 2.6.6
Security-High org.thymeleaf : thymeleaf : 3.0.15.RELEASE

[paul58914080]

@emecas , I did not plan about it much. I will try to publish a bump of new version by next week