spring boot development tips

Common application properties

• Common application properties

configuration to disable hystrix

There is no centralized configuration to disable hystrix. Separate configurations have to be made to disable the configuration for individual commands.

spring.cloud.circuit.breaker.enabled=false
hystrix.command.default.circuitBreaker.enabled=false

Actuator endpoints

By default, the actuator endpoints are not exposed. To expose specific ones, use maangement.endpoints.web.exposure.include to expose specific endpoints. For more details, refer to: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/production-ready-monitoring.html

management:
  health:
    redis:
      enabled: false
  endpoint:
    health:
      show-details: always
  endpoints:
    web:
      base-path: '/'
      exposure:
        include: 'info,health,metrics'
    security:
      enabled: false

Spring Boot Configuratin Binding

• Spring Boot Configuration Binding

Enable logging

The following can be used as the jvm parameter to enable a specific logging category for spring boot application. e.g. the following enables the debug level logging for spring security.

- name: JVM_ARGS
  value: "-Dlogging.level.org.springframework.security=DEBUG"

Error handling

• Error Handling for REST with Spring

details of the dependencies

Go check the pom file of each starters to understand what are the exact dependencies pulled in.

• maven repo url
• spring.io repo url