Brute force remove NR shadowed dependencies from spring resource scanning

Author: kanderson250

instrumentation/spring-resource-path/build.gradle

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+dependencies {
+    implementation(project(":agent-bridge"))
+    implementation("org.springframework:spring-core:3.0.0.RELEASE")
+}
+
+jar {
+    manifest { attributes 'Implementation-Title': 'com.newrelic.instrumentation.spring-resource-path' }
+}
+
+verifyInstrumentation {
+    passes 'org.springframework:spring-core:[3.0.0.RELEASE,)'
+    excludeRegex 'org.springframework:spring-core:.*(RC|SEC|M)[0-9]*$'
+}
+
+//This should not go into the site as it is a utility module, rather than an instrumented framework.

instrumentation/spring-resource-path/src/main/java/com/nr/agent/instrumentation/Utils.java

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+package com.nr.agent.instrumentation;
+
+import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+public class Utils {
+    private static final String NR_SHADOWED_DEPENDENCIES_URL_PREFIX = "com/newrelic/agent/deps";
+
+    /**
+     * Filters out New Relic agent shadowed dependency resources from the given resource array.
+     * This forces New Relic agent shadowed dependencies to become undiscoverable by Spring.
+     *
+     * @param resources the array of resources to filter, may be null
+     * @return a new array excluding resources that match the shadowed dependencies pattern,
+     *         or the original array if it was null
+     */
+    public static Resource[] excludeNRShadowedDependencies(Resource[] resources) {
+        if (resources == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+       return Arrays.stream(resources)
+               .filter(resource -> !isShadowedDependency(resource))
+               .toArray(Resource[]::new);
+    }
+
+    private static boolean isShadowedDependency(Resource resource) {
+        return resource.getDescription().contains(NR_SHADOWED_DEPENDENCIES_URL_PREFIX);
+    }
+}

instrumentation/spring-resource-path/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/ResourcePatternResolver_Instrumentation.java

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+/*
+ *
+ *  * Copyright 2026 New Relic Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ *  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ *
+ */
+package org.springframework.core.io.support;
+
+import com.newrelic.api.agent.Trace;
+import com.newrelic.api.agent.weaver.MatchType;
+import com.newrelic.api.agent.weaver.Weave;
+import com.newrelic.api.agent.weaver.Weaver;
+import com.nr.agent.instrumentation.Utils;
+import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+@Weave(type = MatchType.Interface, originalName = "org.springframework.core.io.support.ResourcePatternResolver")
+public class ResourcePatternResolver_Instrumentation {
+
+    public Resource[] getResources(String locationPattern) throws IOException {
+        return Utils.excludeNRShadowedDependencies(Weaver.callOriginal());
+    }
+}

instrumentation/spring-resource-path/src/test/java/com/nr/agent/instrumentation/UtilsTest.java

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+package com.nr.agent.instrumentation;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+public class UtilsTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testExcludeNRShadowedDependencies() throws IOException {
+        //TODO
+    }
+}

settings.gradle

@@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ include 'instrumentation:spring-handler-method-invoker-3.0.0'
 include 'instrumentation:spring-jms-2'
 include 'instrumentation:spring-jms-3'
 include 'instrumentation:spring-kafka-2.2.0'
+include 'instrumentation:spring-resource-path'
 include 'instrumentation:spring-resttemplate-6.0.0'
 include 'instrumentation:spring-webclient-5.0'
 include 'instrumentation:spring-webclient-6.0'