External configuration (server and client) for Spring Cloud
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[[features]]
= Features
[[spring-cloud-config-server]]
== Spring Cloud Config Server
Spring Cloud Config Server offers the following benefits:
@EnableConfigServer
[[spring-cloud-config-client]]
== Spring Cloud Config Client
Specifically for Spring applications, Spring Cloud Config Client lets you:
Environment
with remote property sources.@RefreshScope
for Spring @Beans
that want to be re-initialized when configuration changes./env
for updating Environment
and rebinding @ConfigurationProperties
and log levels./refresh
for refreshing the @RefreshScope
beans./restart
for restarting the Spring context (disabled by default)./pause
and /resume
for calling the Lifecycle
methods (stop()
and start()
on the ApplicationContext
).[[quick-start]]
= Quick Start
[[sample-application]]
== Sample Application
You can find a sample application https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config/tree/master/spring-cloud-config-sample[here].
It is a Spring Boot application, so you can run it by using the usual mechanisms (for instance, mvn spring-boot:run
).
When it runs, it looks for the config server on http://localhost:8888
(a configurable default), so you can run the server as well to see it all working together.
The sample has a test case where the config server is also started in the same JVM (with a different port), and the test asserts that an
environment property from the git configuration repo is present.
To change the location of the config server, you can set spring.cloud.config.uri
in bootstrap.yml
(or in system properties and other places).
The test case has a main()
method that runs the server in the same way (watch the logs for its port), so you can run the whole system in one process and play with it (for example, you can run the main()
method in your IDE).
The main()
method uses target/config
for the working directory of the git repository, so you can make local changes there and see them reflected in the running app. The following example shows a session of tinkering with the test case:
The refresh endpoint reports that the “sample” property changed.
[[building]]
= Building
:jdkversion: 17
[[basic-compile-and-test]]
== Basic Compile and Test
To build the source you will need to install JDK {jdkversion}.
Spring Cloud uses Maven for most build-related activities, and you
should be able to get off the ground quite quickly by cloning the
project you are interested in and typing
NOTE: You can also install Maven (>=3.3.3) yourself and run the mvn
command
in place of ./mvnw
in the examples below. If you do that you also
might need to add -P spring
if your local Maven settings do not
contain repository declarations for spring pre-release artifacts.
NOTE: Be aware that you might need to increase the amount of memory
available to Maven by setting a MAVEN_OPTS
environment variable with
a value like -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m
. We try to cover this in
the .mvn
configuration, so if you find you have to do it to make a
build succeed, please raise a ticket to get the settings added to
source control.
The projects that require middleware (i.e. Redis) for testing generally
require that a local instance of Docker is installed and running.
[[documentation]]
== Documentation
The spring-cloud-build module has a “docs” profile, and if you switch
that on it will try to build asciidoc sources using https://docs.antora.org/antora/latest/[Antora] from
modules/ROOT/
.
As part of that process it will look for a
docs/src/main/asciidoc/README.adoc
and process it by loading all the includes, but not
parsing or rendering it, just copying it to ${main.basedir}
(defaults to $\{basedir}
, i.e. the root of the project). If there are
any changes in the README it will then show up after a Maven build as
a modified file in the correct place. Just commit it and push the change.
[[working-with-the-code]]
== Working with the code
If you don’t have an IDE preference we would recommend that you use
https://www.springsource.com/developer/sts[Spring Tools Suite] or
https://eclipse.org[Eclipse] when working with the code. We use the
https://eclipse.org/m2e/[m2eclipse] eclipse plugin for maven support. Other IDEs and tools
should also work without issue as long as they use Maven 3.3.3 or better.
[[activate-the-spring-maven-profile]]
=== Activate the Spring Maven profile
Spring Cloud projects require the ‘spring’ Maven profile to be activated to resolve
the spring milestone and snapshot repositories. Use your preferred IDE to set this
profile to be active, or you may experience build errors.
[[importing-into-eclipse-with-m2eclipse]]
=== Importing into eclipse with m2eclipse
We recommend the https://eclipse.org/m2e/[m2eclipse] eclipse plugin when working with
eclipse. If you don’t already have m2eclipse installed it is available from the “eclipse
marketplace”.
NOTE: Older versions of m2e do not support Maven 3.3, so once the
projects are imported into Eclipse you will also need to tell
m2eclipse to use the right profile for the projects. If you
see many different errors related to the POMs in the projects, check
that you have an up to date installation. If you can’t upgrade m2e,
add the “spring” profile to your settings.xml
. Alternatively you can
copy the repository settings from the “spring” profile of the parent
pom into your settings.xml
.
[[importing-into-eclipse-without-m2eclipse]]
=== Importing into eclipse without m2eclipse
If you prefer not to use m2eclipse you can generate eclipse project metadata using the
following command:
$ ./mvnw eclipse:eclipse
The generated eclipse projects can be imported by selecting import existing projects
from the file
menu.
[[jce]]
== JCE
If you get an exception due to “Illegal key size” and you are using Sun’s JDK, you need to install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files.
See the following links for more information:
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce-6-download-429243.html[Java 6 JCE]
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce-7-download-432124.html[Java 7 JCE]
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce8-download-2133166.html[Java 8 JCE]
Extract the JCE files into the JDK/jre/lib/security
folder for whichever version of JRE/JDK x64/x86 you use.
[[contributing]]
= Contributing
:spring-cloud-build-branch: main
Spring Cloud is released under the non-restrictive Apache 2.0 license,
and follows a very standard Github development process, using Github
tracker for issues and merging pull requests into main. If you want
to contribute even something trivial please do not hesitate, but
follow the guidelines below.
[[sign-the-contributor-license-agreement]]
== Sign the Contributor License Agreement
Before we accept a non-trivial patch or pull request we will need you to sign the
https://cla.pivotal.io/sign/spring[Contributor License Agreement].
Signing the contributor’s agreement does not grant anyone commit rights to the main
repository, but it does mean that we can accept your contributions, and you will get an
author credit if we do. Active contributors might be asked to join the core team, and
given the ability to merge pull requests.
[[code-of-conduct]]
== Code of Conduct
This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/blob/main/docs/modules/ROOT/partials/code-of-conduct.adoc[code of
conduct]. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report
unacceptable behavior to [email protected].
[[code-conventions-and-housekeeping]]
== Code Conventions and Housekeeping
None of these is essential for a pull request, but they will all help. They can also be
added after the original pull request but before a merge.
eclipse-code-formatter.xml
file from the.java
files to have a simple Javadoc class comment with at least an@author
tag identifying you, and preferably at least a paragraph on what the class is.java
files (copy from existing files@author
to the .java files that you modify substantially (moreFixes gh-XXXX
at the end of the commit[[checkstyle]]
== Checkstyle
Spring Cloud Build comes with a set of checkstyle rules. You can find them in the spring-cloud-build-tools
module. The most notable files under the module are:
<1> Default Checkstyle rules
<2> File header setup
<3> Default suppression rules
[[checkstyle-configuration]]
=== Checkstyle configuration
Checkstyle rules are disabled by default. To add checkstyle to your project just define the following properties and plugins.
<reporting>
<plugins>
<plugin> <5>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</reporting>
If you need to suppress some rules (e.g. line length needs to be longer), then it’s enough for you to define a file under ${project.root}/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
with your suppressions. Example:
It’s advisable to copy the ${spring-cloud-build.rootFolder}/.editorconfig
and ${spring-cloud-build.rootFolder}/.springformat
to your project. That way, some default formatting rules will be applied. You can do so by running this script:
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/main/.editorconfig -o .editorconfig
$ touch .springformat
[[ide-setup]]
== IDE setup
[[intellij-idea]]
=== Intellij IDEA
In order to setup Intellij you should import our coding conventions, inspection profiles and set up the checkstyle plugin.
The following files can be found in the https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/tree/main/spring-cloud-build-tools[Spring Cloud Build] project.
<1> Default Checkstyle rules
<2> File header setup
<3> Default suppression rules
<4> Project defaults for Intellij that apply most of Checkstyle rules
<5> Project style conventions for Intellij that apply most of Checkstyle rules
.Code style
image::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/main/docs/modules/ROOT/assets/images/intellij-code-style.png[Code style]
Go to File
-> Settings
-> Editor
-> Code style
. There click on the icon next to the Scheme
section. There, click on the Import Scheme
value and pick the Intellij IDEA code style XML
option. Import the spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/intellij/Intellij_Spring_Boot_Java_Conventions.xml
file.
.Inspection profiles
image::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/main/docs/modules/ROOT/assets/images/intellij-inspections.png[Code style]
Go to File
-> Settings
-> Editor
-> Inspections
. There click on the icon next to the Profile
section. There, click on the Import Profile
and import the spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/intellij/Intellij_Project_Defaults.xml
file.
.Checkstyle
To have Intellij work with Checkstyle, you have to install the Checkstyle
plugin. It’s advisable to also install the Assertions2Assertj
to automatically convert the JUnit assertions
Go to File
-> Settings
-> Other settings
-> Checkstyle
. There click on the +
icon in the Configuration file
section. There, you’ll have to define where the checkstyle rules should be picked from. In the image above, we’ve picked the rules from the cloned Spring Cloud Build repository. However, you can point to the Spring Cloud Build’s GitHub repository (e.g. for the checkstyle.xml
: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/main/spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/checkstyle.xml
). We need to provide the following variables:
checkstyle.header.file
- please point it to the Spring Cloud Build’s, spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/checkstyle-header.txt
file either in your cloned repo or via the https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/main/spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/checkstyle-header.txt
URL.checkstyle.suppressions.file
- default suppressions. Please point it to the Spring Cloud Build’s, spring-cloud-build-tools/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
file either in your cloned repo or via the https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/main/spring-cloud-build-tools/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
URL.checkstyle.additional.suppressions.file
- this variable corresponds to suppressions in your local project. E.g. you’re working on spring-cloud-contract
. Then point to the project-root/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
folder. Example for spring-cloud-contract
would be: /home/username/spring-cloud-contract/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
.IMPORTANT: Remember to set the Scan Scope
to All sources
since we apply checkstyle rules for production and test sources.
[[duplicate-finder]]
== Duplicate Finder
Spring Cloud Build brings along the basepom:duplicate-finder-maven-plugin
, that enables flagging duplicate and conflicting classes and resources on the java classpath.
[[duplicate-finder-configuration]]
=== Duplicate Finder configuration
Duplicate finder is enabled by default and will run in the verify
phase of your Maven build, but it will only take effect in your project if you add the duplicate-finder-maven-plugin
to the build
section of the projecst’s pom.xml
.
For other properties, we have set defaults as listed in the https://github.com/basepom/duplicate-finder-maven-plugin/wiki[plugin documentation].
You can easily override them but setting the value of the selected property prefixed with duplicate-finder-maven-plugin
. For example, set duplicate-finder-maven-plugin.skip
to true
in order to skip duplicates check in your build.
If you need to add ignoredClassPatterns
or ignoredResourcePatterns
to your setup, make sure to add them in the plugin configuration section of your project: