An unresolvable circular reference with management.endpoint.gateway.enabled=true

[onacit]

Describe the bug

• With Spring Cloud Gateway and management.endpoint.gateway.enabled=true
• An unresolvable circular reference arises.

To Reproduce

    <version.org.springframework.boot>3.4.0</version.org.springframework.boot>
    <version.org.springframework.cloud>2024.0.0</version.org.springframework.cloud>
   org.springdoc:springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-ui:2.7.0

Two branches are prepared for reproducing the problem at
spring-cloud/spring-cloud-gateway#3111

Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt:
org.springframework.beans.factory.UnsatisfiedDependencyException: Error creating bean with name 'errorWebExceptionHandler' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/reactive/error/ErrorWebFluxAutoConfiguration.class]:

Unsatisfied dependency expressed through method 'errorWebExceptionHandler' parameter 3: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.reactive.WebFluxAutoConfiguration$EnableWebFluxConfiguration': 

Unsatisfied dependency expressed through method 'setConfigurers' parameter 0: Error creating bean with name 'swaggerWebFluxConfigurer' defined in class path resource [org/springdoc/webflux/ui/SwaggerConfig.class]:

Unsatisfied dependency expressed through method 'swaggerWebFluxConfigurer' parameter 3: Error creating bean with name 'actuatorProvider' defined in class path resource [org/springdoc/webflux/core/configuration/SpringDocWebFluxConfiguration$SpringDocWebFluxActuatorConfiguration.class]:

Unsatisfied dependency expressed through method 'actuatorProvider' parameter 4: Error creating bean with name 'webEndpointReactiveHandlerMapping' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/actuate/autoconfigure/endpoint/web/reactive/WebFluxEndpointManagementContextConfiguration.class]: Failed to instantiate [org.springframework.boot.actuate.endpoint.web.reactive.WebFluxEndpointHandlerMapping]: Factory method 'webEndpointReactiveHandlerMapping' threw exception with message: Error creating bean with name 'gatewayControllerEndpoint' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/cloud/gateway/config/GatewayAutoConfiguration$GatewayActuatorConfiguration.class]: 

Unsatisfied dependency expressed through method 'gatewayControllerEndpoint' parameter 1: Error creating bean with name 'modifyRequestBodyGatewayFilterFactory' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/cloud/gateway/config/GatewayAutoConfiguration.class]:

Unsatisfied dependency expressed through method 'modifyRequestBodyGatewayFilterFactory' parameter 0: Error creating bean with name 'serverCodecConfigurer': Requested bean is currently in creation: Is there an unresolvable circular reference or an asynchronous initialization dependency?
15:16:40.150 [main] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DisposableBeanAdapter -- Custom destroy method 'close' on bean with name 'simpleMeterRegistry' completed

[onacit]

@bnasslahsen Thank you for your work. Do we have any plan for the next release? Thank you.

[bnasslahsen]

Hopefully by the end of this week