Spring-cloud-netflix: Why @EnableFeignClients can't be annotated on super class?

[importsource]

For abstraction, I wrote a BaseApplication which contains all needed annotation as follow:

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableDiscoveryClient
@EnableEurekaClient
@EnableHystrix
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@EnableSwagger2
@EnableFeignClients
@EnableZuulProxy
public class BaseApplication {
    public BaseApplication() {
    }
}

All worked well except @EnableFeignClients.

I must re-annotated @EnableFeignClients on the sub-class:

@EnableFeignClients
public class ConsumerApplication extends BaseApplication {...}

Does this cute hole should be fixed or updated in the future?

[spencergibb]

@EnableFeignClients does classpath scanning from the package of the class it is annotated on. In this case you actual feign clients are not located at or under BaseApplications package.

[cHullaert]

thanks that really help me today. Just to be sure. Is it possible to specify another classpath scanning base?

[spencergibb]

There is an attribute on the annotation

[spring-projects-issues]

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