Failed to start bean ‘documentationPluginsBootstrapper‘； nested exception is NullPointerException

场景描述

springboot 集成 springfox的 swagger 3 功能。

环境：

IDE： 2021.3
spring boot： 2.6.3
springfox: 3.0.0

问题

• 启动项目时，异常：Failed to start bean ‘documentationPluginsBootstrapper’; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException。

Error starting ApplicationContext. To display the conditions report re-run your application with 'debug' enabled.
2022-02-25 16:17:39.166 ERROR 9796 --- [           main] o.s.boot.SpringApplication               : Application run failed

org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Failed to start bean 'documentationPluginsBootstrapper'; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.springframework.context.support.DefaultLifecycleProcessor.doStart(DefaultLifecycleProcessor.java:181) ~[spring-context-5.3.15.jar:5.3.15]
	at org.springframework.context.support.DefaultLifecycleProcessor.access$200(DefaultLifecycleProcessor.java:54) ~[spring-context-5.3.15.jar:5.3.15]
	at org.springframework.context.support.DefaultLifecycleProcessor$LifecycleGroup.start(DefaultLifecycleProcessor.java:356) ~[spring-context-5.3.15.jar:5.3.15]
	at java.lang.Iterable.forEach(Iterable.java:75) ~[na:1.8.0_231]
	at org.springframework.context.support.DefaultLifecycleProcessor.startBeans(DefaultLifecycleProcessor.java:155) ~[spring-context-5.3.15.jar:5.3.15]
	at org.springframework.context.support.DefaultLifecycleProcessor.onRefresh(DefaultLifecycleProcessor.java:123) ~[spring-context-5.3.15.jar:5.3.15]
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:935) ~[spring-context-5.3.15.jar:5.3.15]
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:586) ~[spring-context-5.3.15.jar:5.3.15]
	at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.refresh(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:145) ~[spring-boot-2.6.3.jar:2.6.3]
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:732) [spring-boot-2.6.3.jar:2.6.3]
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:414) [spring-boot-2.6.3.jar:2.6.3]
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:302) [spring-boot-2.6.3.jar:2.6.3]
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1303) [spring-boot-2.6.3.jar:2.6.3]
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1292) [spring-boot-2.6.3.jar:2.6.3]
	at com.demo.swagger.DemoSwaggerUiApplication.main(DemoSwaggerUiApplication.java:15) [classes/:na]
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: null
	at springfox.documentation.spring.web.WebMvcPatternsRequestConditionWrapper.getPatterns(WebMvcPatternsRequestConditionWrapper.java:56) ~[springfox-spring-webmvc-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0]
	at springfox.documentation.RequestHandler.sortedPaths(RequestHandler.java:113) ~[springfox-core-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0]
	at springfox.documentation.spi.service.contexts.Orderings.lambda$byPatternsCondition$3(Orderings.java:89) ~[springfox-spi-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0]
	at java.util.Comparator.lambda$comparing$77a9974f$1(Comparator.java:469) ~[na:1.8.0_231]
	
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解决

springfox 获取参数NullPointerException，springboot 和 springfox 3.X 的版本对应问题。
在springfox 提供的demo中，使用的 springboot 版本是 2.3.1。
springboot 版本降一些就可以，但是需在2.3.1及以上（eg：2.5.6版本）。

资料

springfox github：https://github.com/springfox/springfox
springfox demo: https://github.com/springfox/springfox-demos/blob/master/boot-swagger