I was trying out the following example in

https://github.com/lspil/blog/tree/master/endpoint-authorization-methods/spring-security-endpoint-authorization-new

and it works fine without any errors in Intellij IDEA. But as soon as I change the Spring Boot version from 2.4.4 to 2.7.1 in pom.xml, it throws an IDE error:

Could not autowire. No beans of 'HttpSecurity' type found for the following:

  @Bean
  public SecurityFilterChain configuration(HttpSecurity httpSecurity) throws Exception {
  ..........................

The application works fine but would be interested to know why this is happening. Version of IDE is IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1 (Ultimate Edition)

CodePudding user response：

For some reason, the IDE cannot detect that the HttpSecurity bean is configured by Spring Boot. You can get rid of the error by adding @EnableWebSecurity to your configuration class, it solves it because the annotation imports the HttpSecurityConfiguration configuration class.

I will bring this to the Spring Security team if there is a way to solve this problem on our side and will update the answer as soon as I have a position.