Can't connect to Bigtable from a Spring Boot application

Question

I have a standalone application that works fine with Bigtable when creating a connection like this:

Connection connection = BigtableConfiguration.connect(PROJECT_ID, INSTANCE_ID)

and using the following dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.apis</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-api-services-storage</artifactId>
    <version>v1-rev78-1.22.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.apis</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-api-services-pubsub</artifactId>
    <version>v1-rev11-1.22.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigtable</groupId>
    <artifactId>bigtable-hbase-1.2</artifactId>
    <version>0.9.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
    <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
    <artifactId>netty-tcnative-boringssl-static</artifactId>
    <version>1.1.33.Fork26</version>
</dependency>

I'm converting it now to a Spring Boot web application, so I had to add this dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

I haven't changed anything else at all, just added these 5 lines and now I'm getting this error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find an appropriate constructor for com.google.cloud.bigtable.hbase1_1.BigtableConnection
    at com.google.cloud.bigtable.hbase.BigtableConfiguration.connect(BigtableConfiguration.java:88)
    at com.google.cloud.bigtable.hbase.BigtableConfiguration.connect(BigtableConfiguration.java:72)
    at poc.google.cloud.BigtableTest.testHelloWorld(BigtableTest.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:271)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:70)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)
    at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:160)
    at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:78)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:212)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:68)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:140)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:422)
    at com.google.cloud.bigtable.hbase.BigtableConfiguration.connect(BigtableConfiguration.java:85)
    ... 28 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither Jetty ALPN nor OpenSSL via netty-tcnative were properly configured.
    at com.google.cloud.bigtable.grpc.BigtableSession.<init>(BigtableSession.java:258)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.AbstractBigtableConnection.<init>(AbstractBigtableConnection.java:137)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.AbstractBigtableConnection.<init>(AbstractBigtableConnection.java:104)
    at com.google.cloud.bigtable.hbase1_1.BigtableConnection.<init>(BigtableConnection.java:48)
    ... 33 more

Answer 1

The libraries used to connect to Bigtable seem to have some kind of conflict with the Tomcat libraries used by Spring Boot by default.

Use Jetty instead of Tomcat as a workaround.

com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java went missing after this transition, so don't forget to add it too

This is how you replace Tomcat for Jetty in Spring Boot:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jetty</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Excluding spring-boot-starter-tomcat from Spring Boot and adding spring-boot-starter-jetty
made protobuf-java disappear although it's still needed -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
    <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.0</version>
</dependency>