make secret manager dependency non-optional in autoconfigure module

GoogleCloudPlatform · Jan 7, 2025 · 0e2b5d6 · 0e2b5d6
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diff --git a/spring-cloud-gcp-autoconfigure/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-gcp-autoconfigure/pom.xml
@@ -275,7 +275,10 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-cloud-gcp-secretmanager</artifactId>
-            <optional>true</optional>
+            <!-- A few starters need this dependency to validate secrets -->
+            <!-- using SecretManagerSyntaxUtils. Making it optional produces runtime failures -->
+            <!-- of the kind ClassNotFoundError. -->
+            <optional>false</optional>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- KMS -->