springboot spring-boot-starter-data-rest includes spring-boot-starter-web which turns off WebFlux

Spring Boot 2.2.2-RELEASE

Configure the following dependencies:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-webflux</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
        </dependency>

Cannot customize the Web Security configuration:

    @Bean
    public SecurityWebFilterChain springSecurityFilterChain(ServerHttpSecurity http)

Fails with error:

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APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:

Parameter 0 of method springSecurityFilterChain in io.wordlift.widgetservice.WidgetApplication required a bean of type 'org.springframework.security.config.web.server.ServerHttpSecurity' that could not be found.


Action:

Consider defining a bean of type 'org.springframework.security.config.web.server.ServerHttpSecurity' in your configuration.

This is because spring-boot-starter-data-rest brings spring-boot-starter-web which turns off WebFlux.

The expected result would be the starter to be agnostic and to support WebFlux.

Comment From: ziodave

Going through the Spring Data REST documentation again, it seems to only support MVC.

https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#install-chapter

Comment From: ziodave

Confirmed: https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-14878