Introduction
I would like to be able to have two different spring profiles, and depending on the profile to change to a hardcoded address for our feign builders.
Currently was have the following:
return builder.target(cls, "http://" + serviceName);
But I would actually like to do the following and over-ride the address:
return builder.target(cls, "http://our-server:8009/" + serviceName);
Why
Sometimes we don't want to run all the services within our development environment. Additionally, some of the services are only available through a zuul gateway sometimes.
So we run the same code in different situations and conditions.
Technical Details
We have the following code that we use for building our Feign Clients.
We had been using the @FeignClient annotation in the past, but lately we decided to start building our feignClients manually.
Example below:
@FeignClient(name = "ab-document-store", configuration = MultiPartSupportConfiguration.class, fallback = DocumentStoreFallback.class)
We call the feignRegistrar class with the following command:
return registerFeignClient(DocumentStoreClient.class, true);
@RequiredArgsConstructor
//@Component
@Slf4j
public class FeignRegistrar {
@Autowired
private Decoder decoder;
@Autowired
private Encoder encoder;
@Autowired
private Client client;
@Autowired
private Contract feignContract;
@Autowired
private ObjectFactory<HttpMessageConverters> messageConverters;
@Autowired
private List<RequestInterceptor> interceptors;
public <T> T register(Class<T> cls, String serviceName, boolean isDocumentStore) {
if(isDocumentStore){
encoder = new MultipartFormEncoder(new SpringEncoder(messageConverters));
}
//Client trustSSLSockets = new Client.Default(getSSLSocketFactory(), new NoopHostnameVerifier());
Feign.Builder builder = Feign.builder()
.client(client)
.encoder(encoder)
.decoder(decoder)
.contract(feignContract)
.logger(new Slf4Logger())
.logLevel(Logger.Level.HEADERS);
builder.requestInterceptor(new RequestInterceptor() {
@Override
public void apply(RequestTemplate template) {
template.header("X-Service-Name", serviceName);
}
});
for(RequestInterceptor interceptor : interceptors) {
builder.requestInterceptor(interceptor);
}
log.debug("Registering {} - as feign proxy ", serviceName);
return builder.target(cls, "http://" + serviceName);
}
public static class Slf4Logger extends Logger {
@Override
protected void log(String configKey, String format, Object... args) {
log.info("{} - {}", configKey, args);
}
}
}
Spring Cloud Property Over-ride
We have also been using property files such as application-ENV.property with entries such as the following:
ab-document-store.ribbon.NIWSServerListClassName:com.netflix.loadbalancer.ConfigurationBasedServerList
ab-document-store.ribbon.listOfServers: localhost:8025
Unfortunately, listOfServers is not enough for us. We would like to be able to assign a directory/path as well. Something like:
ab-document-store.ribbon.listOfServers: localhost:8025/ab-document-store
Otherworkaround
I have thought about sneaking in a header into all requests such as X-SERVICE-NAME using a feign interceptor. Then we could point all services to an address (e.g. localhost:9001) , and forward/proxy those requests to localhost:9001/X-SERVICE-NAME.
However, I would prefer a much easier solution such as:
ab-document-store.ribbon.listOfServers: localhost:8025/ab-document-store
But this doesn't work :(
