Annotation-specified bean name ‘b’ for bean

User 1 - Jun 2024

I am using proguard 7.4.2. I used it successfully about a month ago but today when I ran it, it gave me a jar that gives a runtime error:

Caused by: org.springframework.context.annotation.ConflictingBeanDefinitionException: Annotation-specified bean name 'b' for bean class [xxx.xxx.a.b] conflicts with existing, non-compatible bean definition of same name and class [xxx.xxx.b]

I inspected the code and saw this:

package xxx.xxx;

import xxx.xxx.a.b;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
public class b {
  
  private final b dP;
  
  public b(b paramb) {
    this.dP = paramb;
  }
}

This code will not even compile. What does

private final b dP

refer to? Is it a self-reference to xxx.xxx.b or a reference to xxx.xxx.a.b? Its an ambiguous reference. Earlier when I ran proguard I had gotten this:

package xxx.xxx;

import xxx.xxx.a.i;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
public class b {
  
  private final i dP;
  
  public b(i paramb) {
    this.dP = paramb;
  }
}

I haven’t changed the proguard config so not sure why its behaving differently this time. Any idea how I can fix this except using keep class? I do want the class to be obfuscated just that it should not mix up the names.