1.0.2 incompatible with Spring Boot 2.7.0

[hstaudacher]

Describe the bug
I'm using javafaker in an application and updated recently to Spring Boot 2.7.0. After upgrading I ran in to the following build error:

org.gradle.internal.resolve.ArtifactNotFoundException: Could not find snakeyaml-1.30-android.jar (org.yaml:snakeyaml:1.30).

I have traced it down to javafaker. By changing my gradle dependency to the following my application builds again:

  implementation('com.github.javafaker:javafaker:1.0.2') {
    exclude group: 'org.yaml', module: 'snakeyaml'
  }

To Reproduce
Setup a spring boot 2.7.0 app and add java faker 1.0.2 as dependency.

Expected behavior
Should build out of the box.

Versions:

• OS: OSX
• JDK 11
• Faker Version 1.0.2

[bodiam]

@hstaudacher thanks for reporting this issue, and yes, there's a few issues with this library, the incompatibility with Spring Boot is one of them. That's why we created a port of this library, which does work with spring boot. You can find it at https://www.datafaker.net, and requires only minimal code changes to get it up and running, only the package name changed (plus we have many improvements, no security issues, etc)

[ahmetgeymen]

It is also discussed in detail here. Using https://www.datafaker.net is the best option as @bodiam has mentioned above.