javaspring-cloud/spring-cloud-gateway #4256Not a task: already works

spring-boot-resttestclient is missing test scope in spring-cloud-gateway-proxyexchange-webmvc

envgap__spring-cloud__spring-cloud-gateway-4256

Original GitHub issue ↗Dated source checkout ↗Opened 2026-08-05

01 / FAILURE SIGNATURE

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The project already builds and runs before the fix, so there is nothing to repair.

02 / ENVIRONMENT RECIPE

Base commit: 745b86df30b055590b81b4c609984f11dee88d8a
Manifest: spring-cloud-gateway-proxyexchange-webmvc/pom.xml
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03 / ORIGINAL ISSUE TEXT

spring-cloud/spring-cloud-gateway #4256 · read the original issue

**Describe the bug**
`spring-cloud-gateway-proxyexchange-webmvc` declares `org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-resttestclient` without a scope, so it defaults to `compile` and leaks onto the compile/runtime classpath of every
application that depends on the module.

It is only used by tests — `RestTestClient` appears in `src/test/java` and nowhere in `src/main/java`.
Every other module in the repo already scopes it to `test` (`spring-cloud-gateway-server-webmvc`,
`spring-cloud-gateway-server-webflux`, `spring-cloud-gateway-proxyexchange-webflux`), so this module
looks like an oversight.

**Sample**
`mvn dependency:tree` on a project depending on `spring-cloud-gateway-proxyexchange-webmvc` shows
`spring-boot-resttestclient` under `compile`. Adding `<scope>test</scope>` to the dependency fixes it;
the module's tests still pass.

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