Can not inherit and extend classes annotated with @GrpcAdvice and containing @GrpcExceptionHandlers

[Dhi13man]

The Problem

Spring allows classes annotated with @ControllerAdvice and containing @ExceptionHandlers to be extended and overridden as necessary, such that the behaviours of the overridden methods take precedence over base methods.

It seems we can not similarly inherit and extend classes annotated with @GrpcAdvice and containing @GrpcExceptionHandlers.

Steps to Reproduce

With Proper Annotations and Overriding in Derived Class

If one tries to extend one @GrpcAdvice class with another, providing the @GrpcExceptionHandler annotations as shown below, the application is unable to start up with Fatal Exception: Ambiguous "@GrpcExceptionHandler" method mapped for BadRequestException..

@GrpcAdvice
public class BaseGrpcExceptionHandler {

  @GrpcExceptionHandler(BadRequestException.class)
  public Status handleBadRequestException(BadRequestException ex) {
    LOGGER.error("Bad Request Sent to Service: ", ex).log();
    return embedStatusWithExceptionData(Status.INVALID_ARGUMENT, ex);
  }
}

@GrpcAdvice
public class SpecialisedGrpcExceptionHandler extends BaseGrpcExceptionHandler {

  @Override
  @GrpcExceptionHandler(BadRequestException.class)
  public Status handleBadRequestException(BadRequestException ex) {
    final Status internalErrorStatus = super.handleBadRequestException(ex);
    return resolveExceptionResponseDtoForClientSide(internalErrorStatus);
  }

  private Status resolveExceptionResponseDtoForClientSide(Status status) {
    // ...Some custom logic
  }
}

Without @GrpcExceptionHandler annotation in Derived Class

If one tries to extend one @GrpcAdvice class with another as shown below, without @GrpcExceptionHandler annotation, the application is unable to start up with Fatal Exception: [net/devh/boot/grpc/server/autoconfigure/GrpcAdviceAutoConfiguration.class]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: @GrpcExceptionHandler annotation not found..

@GrpcAdvice
public class BaseGrpcExceptionHandler {

  @GrpcExceptionHandler(BadRequestException.class)
  public Status handleBadRequestException(BadRequestException ex) {
    LOGGER.error("Bad Request Sent to Service: ", ex).log();
    return embedStatusWithExceptionData(Status.INVALID_ARGUMENT, ex);
  }
}

@GrpcAdvice
public class SpecialisedGrpcExceptionHandler extends BaseGrpcExceptionHandler {

  @Override
  public Status handleBadRequestException(BadRequestException ex) {
    final Status internalErrorStatus = super.handleBadRequestException(ex);
    return resolveExceptionResponseDtoForClientSide(internalErrorStatus);
  }

  private Status resolveExceptionResponseDtoForClientSide(Status status) {
    // ...Some custom logic
  }
}

Additional Context

The dependency being used is:

    <dependency>
      <artifactId>grpc-server-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
      <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
          <artifactId>grpc-core</artifactId>
          <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
        </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
      <groupId>net.devh</groupId>
      <version>2.13.1.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

Other versions being used are as follows:

<properties>
    <grpc.version>1.46.0</grpc.version>
    <java.version>11</java.version>
    <project.version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</project.version>
    <protobuf-plugin.version>0.6.1</protobuf-plugin.version>
    <protobuf.version>3.20.1</protobuf.version>
    <spring.boot.version>2.5.8</spring.boot.version>
    <spring.cloud.kubernetes.version>1.1.10.RELEASE</spring.cloud.kubernetes.version>
    <spring.cloud.version>2020.0.5</spring.cloud.version>
  </properties>

[ST-DDT]

I'll have a look/try to fix that soon.