Why is IntelliJ adding wrong maven dependency in my Spring Boot project?

Question

When I click the import maven dependency in the pop up shown at RequestMapping, intellij adds

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>   
    <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.10.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

But it should add this.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>

How can I resolve this? I have auto-import enabled for maven and I have tried both the maven bundled version with IntelliJ and the manually downloaded version. Changing the dependency manually makes the program run correctly.

It will find the dependency that contains that class. Which is spring-web and not the spring-boot-starter-web (as the latter is just a BOM containoing other dependencies). — M. Deinum
– M. Deinum, Commented Oct 7, 2019 at 6:06
Everything is ok. Spring Boot Starter dependencies are meant to be added manually or using start.spring.io. — Piotr Gwiazda
– Piotr Gwiazda, Commented Oct 7, 2019 at 6:09

Mehraj Malik · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-07 07:34:12Z

1

Open pom.xml

Remove the below dependency :

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>   
    <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.10.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

and add this :

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>

edited Oct 7, 2019 at 7:34

answered Oct 7, 2019 at 6:05

Mehraj Malik

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