Feign.Builder from FeignClientsConfiguration overrides SleuthFeignBuilder

I am trying to get Sleuth to work correctly with feign clients constructed with Feign.builder. Based on previous posts here and looking at the code, I understand that I can rely on SleuthFeignBuilder to return a builder that wraps the client in the Trace functionality.

However, I’m not able to inject the correct builder in my Spring application - it seems that the default builder, from org.springframework.cloud.netflix.feign.FeignClientsConfiguration overrides the Sleuth builder from org.springframework.cloud.sleuth.instrument.web.client.feign.TraceFeignClientAutoConfiguration since they are both marked as ConditionalOnMissingBean and the FeignClientsConfiguration class gets loaded first.

This is the builder in FeignClientsConfiguration:

	@Bean
	@Scope("prototype")
	@ConditionalOnMissingBean
	public Feign.Builder feignBuilder(Retryer retryer) {
		return Feign.builder().retryer(retryer);
	}

And this is the builder in TraceFeignClientAutoConfiguration:

	@Bean
	@ConditionalOnMissingBean
	@Scope("prototype")
	@ConditionalOnProperty(name = "feign.hystrix.enabled", havingValue = "false", matchIfMissing = true)
	Feign.Builder feignBuilder(BeanFactory beanFactory) {
		return SleuthFeignBuilder.builder(beanFactory);
	}

How can I get the 2nd one, and not the first?

[dmarkhas]

@marcingrzejszczak your last comment helped me pinpoint the issue - there was an explicit Import of FeignClientsConfiguration in a different place in the code that caused this conflict, after removing it everything works fine!

[marcingrzejszczak]

The TraceFeignClientAutoConfiguration is an autoconfiguration. FeignClientsConfiguration is not an autoconfiguration. It’s Usef jn the FeignContext. FeignContext is setup in FeignAutoConfiguration. We do have @AutoConfigureBefore(FeignAutoConfiguration.class).