Mapping list in Yaml to list of objects in Spring Boot

Question

In my Spring Boot app I have application.yaml configuration file with following content. I want to have it injected as a Configuration object with list of channel configurations:

available-payment-channels-list:
  xyz: "123"
  channelConfigurations:
    -
      name: "Company X"
      companyBankAccount: "1000200030004000"
    -
      name: "Company Y"
      companyBankAccount: "1000200030004000"

And @Configuration object I want to be populated with list of PaymentConfiguration objects:

    @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "available-payment-channels-list")
    @Configuration
    @RefreshScope
    public class AvailableChannelsConfiguration {

        private String xyz;

        private List<ChannelConfiguration> channelConfigurations;

        public AvailableChannelsConfiguration(String xyz, List<ChannelConfiguration> channelConfigurations) {
            this.xyz = xyz;
            this.channelConfigurations = channelConfigurations;
        }

        public AvailableChannelsConfiguration() {

        }

        // getters, setters


        @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "available-payment-channels-list.channelConfigurations")
        @Configuration
        public static class ChannelConfiguration {
            private String name;
            private String companyBankAccount;

            public ChannelConfiguration(String name, String companyBankAccount) {
                this.name = name;
                this.companyBankAccount = companyBankAccount;
            }

            public ChannelConfiguration() {
            }

            // getters, setters
        }

    }

I am injecting this as a normal bean with @Autowired constructor. Value of xyz is populated correctly, but when Spring tries to parse yaml into list of objects I am getting

   nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: 
    Cannot convert value of type [java.lang.String] to required type    
    [io.example.AvailableChannelsConfiguration$ChannelConfiguration] 
    for property 'channelConfigurations[0]': no matching editors or 
    conversion strategy found]

Any clues what is wrong here?

Answer 1

The reason must be somewhere else. Using only Spring Boot 1.2.2 out of the box with no configuration, it Just Works. Have a look at this repo - can you get it to break?

https://github.com/konrad-garus/so-yaml

Are you sure the YAML file looks exactly the way you pasted? No extra whitespace, characters, special characters, mis-indentation or something of that sort? Is it possible you have another file elsewhere in the search path that is used instead of the one you're expecting?