How can I specify the spring-data-mongodb version using spring-boot? - mongodb

Question

I want to use the latest version of spring-data-mongodb, in order to use the full text search feature, but I don't know how I can specify this using the spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb dependence.
You can read here: maven repository that the spring-data-mongodb version is not specify.
This is my pom file:
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.1.6.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath /> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring Boot -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring Boot Rest -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring Boot Test -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring MongoDB integration -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-freemarker</artifactId>
</dependency>

Answer 1

Spring Boot defines all its dependencies and dependency versions in the spring-boot-dependencies project. This project only contains a pom with only dependencies and versions as properties.
Spring Data releases all of its compatible releases in a so called release train and this makes sure that all dependencies of that version will work together.
When you take a closer look a the pom you will see a maven property named spring-data-releasetrain.version and for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.2 it points to the latest release train version Evans-RELEASE. The 1.1.7 version points to the previous version Dijkstra-SR4. I would suggest an upgrade from 1.1.6 to 1.1.7 just in case.
You're project already has the spring-boot-starter-parent project as its parent so in theory upgrading the Spring Data versions should be as easy as overriding the specified property.
<properties>
<spring-data-releasetrain.version>Evans-RELEASE</spring-data-releasetrain.version>
</properties>
As mentioned earlier the use of the release train is preferred as this will make sure you get all the compatible versions.

Answer 2

You can find that mongodb dependency in the parent project pom file
/../.m2/repository/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-dependencies/2.3.0.RELEASE/spring-boot-dependencies-2.3.0.RELEASE.pom
That file defines all the dependency version for other libs SpringBoot use
<properties>
<activemq.version>5.15.12</activemq.version>
<antlr2.version>2.7.7</antlr2.version>
...
<mongodb.version>4.0.3</mongodb.version>
...
</properties>
So if you want to use different version for mongodb, define a properties in your pom file to override the default one like (I think this will only work if you use spring-boot-starter-parent as parent )
<properties>
<mongodb.version>3.11.2</mongodb.version>
</properties>

Answer 3

Answer by #sendon1982 worked for me. Here is an example of my POM.XML. I am adding it as an answer here because I could not paste in my pom file as a comment to sendon1982 answer...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.3.3.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/>
</parent>
<groupId>test.barry</groupId>
<artifactId>test</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>test</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<start-class>test.barry.Main</start-class>
<mongodb.version>4.1.0</mongodb.version>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb</artifactId>
<version>2.3.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mongodb</groupId>
<artifactId>mongodb-driver-sync</artifactId>
<version>4.1.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>