Spring AI OpenAI ChatModel failed to start; the apikey must be set

When I dynamically configure the OpenAI apikey in the app instead of configuring it in application.yml, app startup error.

@GetMapping("/call/openai")
public String call() {

    OpenAiChatModel chatModel = OpenAiChatModel.builder()
            .openAiApi(OpenAiApi.builder()
                    .apiKey("sk-xxxx")
                    .baseUrl("https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1/chat/completions")
                    .build()
            ).build();

    return chatModel.call("hi");
}

logs:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: OpenAI API key must be set. Use the connection property: spring.ai.openai.api-key or spring.ai.openai.chat.api-key property.
    at org.springframework.util.Assert.hasText(Assert.java:253) ~[spring-core-6.2.6.jar:6.2.6]

pom:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-ai-starter-model-openai</artifactId>
    <version>1.1.0</version>
</dependency>

when use spring-ai-starter, apikey must be configured in application.yml, although this may be overridden by MergeUtils.merge in ChatModel.

BTW, use spring-ai-openai, no such problem

Comment From: yuluo-yx

I think one possible implementation is to postpone the apikey check until when the ChatModel is created.