原文連結:https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-commons/reference/html/#spring-cloud-context-application-context-services
Many of those features are covered by Spring Boot, on which Spring Cloud builds. Some more features are delivered by Spring Cloud as two libraries: Spring Cloud Context and Spring Cloud Commons. Spring Cloud Context provides utilities and special services for the ApplicationContext
of a Spring Cloud application (bootstrap context, encryption, refresh scope, and environment endpoints). Spring Cloud Commons is a set of abstractions and common classes used in different Spring Cloud implementations (such as Spring Cloud Netflix and Spring Cloud Consul).
目錄
1. Spring Cloud Context: Application Context Services
1.1. The Bootstrap Application Context
1.2. Application Context Hierarchies
1.3. Changing the Location of Bootstrap Properties
1.4. Overriding the Values of Remote Properties
1.5. Customizing the Bootstrap Configuration
1.6. Customizing the Bootstrap Property Sources
1.7. Logging Configuration
1.8. Environment Changes
1.9. Refresh Scope
1.10. Encryption and Decryption
1.11. Endpoints
2. Spring Cloud Commons: Common Abstractions
2.1. The @EnableDiscoveryClient Annotation
2.2. ServiceRegistry
2.3. Spring RestTemplate as a Load Balancer Client
2.4. Spring WebClient as a Load Balancer Client
2.5. Multiple RestTemplate Objects
2.6. Multiple WebClient Objects
2.7. Spring WebFlux WebClient as a Load Balancer Client
2.8. Ignore Network Interfaces
2.9. HTTP Client Factories
2.10. Enabled Features
2.11. Spring Cloud Compatibility Verification
3. Spring Cloud LoadBalancer
3.1. Spring Cloud LoadBalancer integrations
3.2. Spring Cloud LoadBalancer Caching
3.3. Zone-Based Load-Balancing
3.4. Instance Health-Check for LoadBalancer
3.5. Spring Cloud LoadBalancer Starter
3.6. Passing Your Own Spring Cloud LoadBalancer Configuration
4. Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Core Concepts
4.3. Configuration
5. CachedRandomPropertySource
6. Configuration Properties
1. Spring Cloud Context: Application Context Services
Spring Boot has an opinionated view of how to build an application with Spring. For instance, it has conventional locations for common configuration files and has endpoints for common management and monitoring tasks. Spring Cloud builds on top of that and adds a few features that many components in a system would use or occasionally need.
1.1. The Bootstrap Application Context
A Spring Cloud application operates by creating a “bootstrap” context, which is a parent context for the main application. This context is responsible for loading configuration properties from the external sources and for decrypting properties in the local external configuration files. The two contexts share an
Environment
, which is the source of external properties for any Spring application. By default, bootstrap properties (not
bootstrap.properties
but properties that are loaded during the bootstrap phase) are added with high precedence, so they cannot be overridden by local configuration.
The bootstrap context uses a different convention for locating external configuration than the main application context. Instead of
application.yml
(or
.properties
), you can use
bootstrap.yml
, keeping the external configuration for bootstrap and main context nicely separate. The following listing shows an example:
Example 1. bootstrap.yml
spring:
application:
name: foo
cloud:
config:
uri: ${SPRING_CONFIG_URI:http://localhost:8888}
If your application needs any application-specific configuration from the server, it is a good idea to set the
spring.application.name
(in
bootstrap.yml
or
application.yml
). For the property
spring.application.name
to be used as the application’s context ID, you must set it in
bootstrap.[properties | yml]
.
If you want to retrieve specific profile configuration, you should also set
spring.profiles.active
in
bootstrap.[properties | yml]
.
You can disable the bootstrap process completely by setting
spring.cloud.bootstrap.enabled=false
(for example, in system properties).
1.2. Application Context Hierarchies
If you build an application context from
SpringApplication
or
SpringApplicationBuilder
, the Bootstrap context is added as a parent to that context. It is a feature of Spring that child contexts inherit property sources and profiles from their parent, so the “main” application context contains additional property sources, compared to building the same context without Spring Cloud Config. The additional property sources are:
- “bootstrap”: If any
are found in the bootstrap context and if they have non-empty properties, an optionalPropertySourceLocators
appears with high priority. An example would be properties from the Spring Cloud Config Server. See “Customizing the Bootstrap Property Sources” for how to customize the contents of this property source.CompositePropertySource
- “applicationConfig: [classpath:bootstrap.yml]” (and related files if Spring profiles are active): If you have a
(orbootstrap.yml
), those properties are used to configure the bootstrap context. Then they get added to the child context when its parent is set. They have lower precedence than the.properties
(orapplication.yml
) and any other property sources that are added to the child as a normal part of the process of creating a Spring Boot application. See “Changing the Location of Bootstrap Properties” for how to customize the contents of these property sources..properties
Because of the ordering rules of property sources, the “bootstrap” entries take precedence. However, note that these do not contain any data from
bootstrap.yml
, which has very low precedence but can be used to set defaults.
You can extend the context hierarchy by setting the parent context of any
ApplicationContext
you create — for example, by using its own interface or with the
SpringApplicationBuilder
convenience methods (
parent()
,
child()
and
sibling()
). The bootstrap context is the parent of the most senior ancestor that you create yourself. Every context in the hierarchy has its own “bootstrap” (possibly empty) property source to avoid promoting values inadvertently from parents down to their descendants. If there is a config server, every context in the hierarchy can also (in principle) have a different
spring.application.name
and, hence, a different remote property source. Normal Spring application context behavior rules apply to property resolution: properties from a child context override those in the parent, by name and also by property source name. (If the child has a property source with the same name as the parent, the value from the parent is not included in the child).
Note that the
SpringApplicationBuilder
lets you share an
Environment
amongst the whole hierarchy, but that is not the default. Thus, sibling contexts (in particular) do not need to have the same profiles or property sources, even though they may share common values with their parent.
1.3. Changing the Location of Bootstrap Properties
The
bootstrap.yml
(or
.properties
) location can be specified by setting
spring.cloud.bootstrap.name
(default:
bootstrap
),
spring.cloud.bootstrap.location
(default: empty) or
spring.cloud.bootstrap.additional-location
(default: empty) — for example, in System properties.
Those properties behave like the
spring.config.*
variants with the same name. With
spring.cloud.bootstrap.location
the default locations are replaced and only the specified ones are used. To add locations to the list of default ones,
spring.cloud.bootstrap.additional-location
could be used. In fact, they are used to set up the bootstrap
ApplicationContext
by setting those properties in its
Environment
. If there is an active profile (from
spring.profiles.active
or through the
Environment
API in the context you are building), properties in that profile get loaded as well, the same as in a regular Spring Boot app — for example, from
bootstrap-development.properties
for a
development
profile.
1.4. Overriding the Values of Remote Properties
The property sources that are added to your application by the bootstrap context are often “remote” (from example, from Spring Cloud Config Server). By default, they cannot be overridden locally. If you want to let your applications override the remote properties with their own system properties or config files, the remote property source has to grant it permission by setting
spring.cloud.config.allowOverride=true
(it does not work to set this locally). Once that flag is set, two finer-grained settings control the location of the remote properties in relation to system properties and the application’s local configuration:
-
: Override from any local property source.spring.cloud.config.overrideNone=true
-
: Only system properties, command line arguments, and environment variables (but not the local config files) should override the remote settings.spring.cloud.config.overrideSystemProperties=false
1.5. Customizing the Bootstrap Configuration
The bootstrap context can be set to do anything you like by adding entries to
/META-INF/spring.factories
under a key named
org.springframework.cloud.bootstrap.BootstrapConfiguration
. This holds a comma-separated list of Spring
@Configuration
classes that are used to create the context. Any beans that you want to be available to the main application context for autowiring can be created here. There is a special contract for
@Beans
of type
ApplicationContextInitializer
. If you want to control the startup sequence, you can mark classes with the
@Order
annotation (the default order is
last
).
When adding custom , be careful that the classes you add are not by mistake into your “main” application context, where they might not be needed. Use a separate package name for boot configuration classes and make sure that name is not already covered by your or annotated configuration classes. |
The bootstrap process ends by injecting initializers into the main
SpringApplication
instance (which is the normal Spring Boot startup sequence, whether it runs as a standalone application or is deployed in an application server). First, a bootstrap context is created from the classes found in
spring.factories
. Then, all
@Beans
of type
ApplicationContextInitializer
are added to the main
SpringApplication
before it is started.
1.6. Customizing the Bootstrap Property Sources
The default property source for external configuration added by the bootstrap process is the Spring Cloud Config Server, but you can add additional sources by adding beans of type
PropertySourceLocator
to the bootstrap context (through
spring.factories
). For instance, you can insert additional properties from a different server or from a database.
As an example, consider the following custom locator:
@Configuration
public class CustomPropertySourceLocator implements PropertySourceLocator {
@Override
public PropertySource<?> locate(Environment environment) {
return new MapPropertySource("customProperty",
Collections.<String, Object>singletonMap("property.from.sample.custom.source", "worked as intended"));
}
}
The
Environment
that is passed in is the one for the
ApplicationContext
about to be created — in other words, the one for which we supply additional property sources. It already has its normal Spring Boot-provided property sources, so you can use those to locate a property source specific to this
Environment
(for example, by keying it on
spring.application.name
, as is done in the default Spring Cloud Config Server property source locator).
If you create a jar with this class in it and then add a
META-INF/spring.factories
containing the following setting, the
customProperty
PropertySource
appears in any application that includes that jar on its classpath:
org.springframework.cloud.bootstrap.BootstrapConfiguration=sample.custom.CustomPropertySourceLocator
1.7. Logging Configuration
If you use Spring Boot to configure log settings, you should place this configuration in
bootstrap.[yml | properties]
if you would like it to apply to all events.
For Spring Cloud to initialize logging configuration properly, you cannot use a custom prefix. For example, using is not recognized by Spring Cloud when initializing the logging system. |
1.8. Environment Changes
The application listens for an
EnvironmentChangeEvent
and reacts to the change in a couple of standard ways (additional
ApplicationListeners
can be added as
@Beans
in the normal way). When an
EnvironmentChangeEvent
is observed, it has a list of key values that have changed, and the application uses those to:
- Re-bind any
beans in the context.@ConfigurationProperties
- Set the logger levels for any properties in
.logging.level.*
Note that the Spring Cloud Config Client does not, by default, poll for changes in the
Environment
. Generally, we would not recommend that approach for detecting changes (although you could set it up with a
@Scheduled
annotation). If you have a scaled-out client application, it is better to broadcast the
EnvironmentChangeEvent
to all the instances instead of having them polling for changes (for example, by using the Spring Cloud Bus).
The
EnvironmentChangeEvent
covers a large class of refresh use cases, as long as you can actually make a change to the
Environment
and publish the event. Note that those APIs are public and part of core Spring). You can verify that the changes are bound to
@ConfigurationProperties
beans by visiting the
/configprops
endpoint (a standard Spring Boot Actuator feature). For instance, a
DataSource
can have its
maxPoolSize
changed at runtime (the default
DataSource
created by Spring Boot is a
@ConfigurationProperties
bean) and grow capacity dynamically. Re-binding
@ConfigurationProperties
does not cover another large class of use cases, where you need more control over the refresh and where you need a change to be atomic over the whole
ApplicationContext
. To address those concerns, we have
@RefreshScope
.
1.9. Refresh Scope
When there is a configuration change, a Spring
@Bean
that is marked as
@RefreshScope
gets special treatment. This feature addresses the problem of stateful beans that get their configuration injected only when they are initialized. For instance, if a
DataSource
has open connections when the database URL is changed through the
Environment
, you probably want the holders of those connections to be able to complete what they are doing. Then, the next time something borrows a connection from the pool, it gets one with the new URL.
Sometimes, it might even be mandatory to apply the
@RefreshScope
annotation on some beans that can be only initialized once. If a bean is “immutable”, you have to either annotate the bean with
@RefreshScope
or specify the classname under the property key:
spring.cloud.refresh.extra-refreshable
.
If you hava a bean that is a , it can not be refreshed. It is the default value for . Choose a different implementation if you need it to be refreshed. |
Refresh scope beans are lazy proxies that initialize when they are used (that is, when a method is called), and the scope acts as a cache of initialized values. To force a bean to re-initialize on the next method call, you must invalidate its cache entry.
The
RefreshScope
is a bean in the context and has a public
refreshAll()
method to refresh all beans in the scope by clearing the target cache. The
/refresh
endpoint exposes this functionality (over HTTP or JMX). To refresh an individual bean by name, there is also a
refresh(String)
method.
To expose the
/refresh
endpoint, you need to add following configuration to your application:
management:
endpoints:
web:
exposure:
include: refresh
works (technically) on a class, but it might lead to surprising behavior. For example, it does not mean that all the defined in that class are themselves in . Specifically, anything that depends on those beans cannot rely on them being updated when a refresh is initiated, unless it is itself in . In that case, it is rebuilt on a refresh and its dependencies are re-injected. At that point, they are re-initialized from the refreshed ). |
1.10. Encryption and Decryption
Spring Cloud has an
Environment
pre-processor for decrypting property values locally. It follows the same rules as the Spring Cloud Config Server and has the same external configuration through
encrypt.*
. Thus, you can use encrypted values in the form of
{cipher}*
, and, as long as there is a valid key, they are decrypted before the main application context gets the
Environment
settings. To use the encryption features in an application, you need to include Spring Security RSA in your classpath (Maven co-ordinates:
org.springframework.security:spring-security-rsa
), and you also need the full strength JCE extensions in your JVM.
If you get an exception due to "Illegal key size" and you use Sun’s JDK, you need to install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files. See the following links for more information:
- Java 6 JCE
- Java 7 JCE
- Java 8 JCE
Extract the files into the JDK/jre/lib/security folder for whichever version of JRE/JDK x64/x86 you use.
1.11. Endpoints
For a Spring Boot Actuator application, some additional management endpoints are available. You can use:
-
toPOST
to update the/actuator/env
and rebindEnvironment
and log levels.@ConfigurationProperties
-
to re-load the boot strap context and refresh the/actuator/refresh
beans.@RefreshScope
-
to close the/actuator/restart
and restart it (disabled by default).ApplicationContext
-
and/actuator/pause
for calling the/actuator/resume
methods (Lifecycle
andstop()
on thestart()
).ApplicationContext
If you disable the endpoint then the and endpoints will also be disabled since they are just a special case of . |
2. Spring Cloud Commons: Common Abstractions
Patterns such as service discovery, load balancing, and circuit breakers lend themselves to a common abstraction layer that can be consumed by all Spring Cloud clients, independent of the implementation (for example, discovery with Eureka or Consul).
2.1. The @EnableDiscoveryClient
Annotation
@EnableDiscoveryClient
Spring Cloud Commons provides the
@EnableDiscoveryClient
annotation. This looks for implementations of the
DiscoveryClient
and
ReactiveDiscoveryClient
interfaces with
META-INF/spring.factories
. Implementations of the discovery client add a configuration class to
spring.factories
under the
org.springframework.cloud.client.discovery.EnableDiscoveryClient
key. Examples of
DiscoveryClient
implementations include Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka, Spring Cloud Consul Discovery, and Spring Cloud Zookeeper Discovery.
Spring Cloud will provide both the blocking and reactive service discovery clients by default. You can disable the blocking and/or reactive clients easily by setting
spring.cloud.discovery.blocking.enabled=false
or
spring.cloud.discovery.reactive.enabled=false
. To completely disable service discovery you just need to set
spring.cloud.discovery.enabled=false
.
By default, implementations of
DiscoveryClient
auto-register the local Spring Boot server with the remote discovery server. This behavior can be disabled by setting
autoRegister=false
in
@EnableDiscoveryClient
.
is no longer required. You can put a implementation on the classpath to cause the Spring Boot application to register with the service discovery server. |
2.1.1. Health Indicator
Commons creates a Spring Boot
HealthIndicator
that
DiscoveryClient
implementations can participate in by implementing
DiscoveryHealthIndicator
. To disable the composite
HealthIndicator
, set
spring.cloud.discovery.client.composite-indicator.enabled=false
. A generic
HealthIndicator
based on
DiscoveryClient
is auto-configured (
DiscoveryClientHealthIndicator
). To disable it, set
spring.cloud.discovery.client.health-indicator.enabled=false
. To disable the description field of the
DiscoveryClientHealthIndicator
, set
spring.cloud.discovery.client.health-indicator.include-description=false
. Otherwise, it can bubble up as the
description
of the rolled up
HealthIndicator
.
2.1.2. Ordering
DiscoveryClient
instances
DiscoveryClient
interface extends
Ordered
. This is useful when using multiple discovery clients, as it allows you to define the order of the returned discovery clients, similar to how you can order the beans loaded by a Spring application. By default, the order of any
DiscoveryClient
is set to
. If you want to set a different order for your custom
DiscoveryClient
implementations, you just need to override the
getOrder()
method so that it returns the value that is suitable for your setup. Apart from this, you can use properties to set the order of the
DiscoveryClient
implementations provided by Spring Cloud, among others
ConsulDiscoveryClient
,
EurekaDiscoveryClient
and
ZookeeperDiscoveryClient
. In order to do it, you just need to set the
spring.cloud.{clientIdentifier}.discovery.order
(or
eureka.client.order
for Eureka) property to the desired value.
2.1.3. SimpleDiscoveryClient
If there is no Service-Registry-backed
DiscoveryClient
in the classpath,
SimpleDiscoveryClient
instance, that uses properties to get information on service and instances, will be used.
The information about the available instances should be passed to via properties in the following format:
spring.cloud.discovery.client.simple.instances.service1[0].uri=http://s11:8080
, where
spring.cloud.discovery.client.simple.instances
is the common prefix, then
service1
stands for the ID of the service in question, while
[0]
indicates the index number of the instance (as visible in the example, indexes start with
), and then the value of
uri
is the actual URI under which the instance is available.
2.2. ServiceRegistry
Commons now provides a
ServiceRegistry
interface that provides methods such as
register(Registration)
and
deregister(Registration)
, which let you provide custom registered services.
Registration
is a marker interface.
The following example shows the
ServiceRegistry
in use:
@Configuration
@EnableDiscoveryClient(autoRegister=false)
public class MyConfiguration {
private ServiceRegistry registry;
public MyConfiguration(ServiceRegistry registry) {
this.registry = registry;
}
// called through some external process, such as an event or a custom actuator endpoint
public void register() {
Registration registration = constructRegistration();
this.registry.register(registration);
}
}
Each
ServiceRegistry
implementation has its own
Registry
implementation.
-
used withZookeeperRegistration
ZookeeperServiceRegistry
-
used withEurekaRegistration
EurekaServiceRegistry
-
used withConsulRegistration
ConsulServiceRegistry
If you are using the
ServiceRegistry
interface, you are going to need to pass the correct
Registry
implementation for the
ServiceRegistry
implementation you are using.
2.2.1. ServiceRegistry Auto-Registration
By default, the
ServiceRegistry
implementation auto-registers the running service. To disable that behavior, you can set: *
@EnableDiscoveryClient(autoRegister=false)
to permanently disable auto-registration. *
spring.cloud.service-registry.auto-registration.enabled=false
to disable the behavior through configuration.
ServiceRegistry Auto-Registration Events
There are two events that will be fired when a service auto-registers. The first event, called
InstancePreRegisteredEvent
, is fired before the service is registered. The second event, called
InstanceRegisteredEvent
, is fired after the service is registered. You can register an
ApplicationListener
(s) to listen to and react to these events.
These events will not be fired if the property is set to . |
2.2.2. Service Registry Actuator Endpoint
Spring Cloud Commons provides a
/service-registry
actuator endpoint. This endpoint relies on a
Registration
bean in the Spring Application Context. Calling
/service-registry
with GET returns the status of the
Registration
. Using POST to the same endpoint with a JSON body changes the status of the current
Registration
to the new value. The JSON body has to include the
status
field with the preferred value. Please see the documentation of the
ServiceRegistry
implementation you use for the allowed values when updating the status and the values returned for the status. For instance, Eureka’s supported statuses are
UP
,
DOWN
,
OUT_OF_SERVICE
, and
UNKNOWN
.
2.3. Spring RestTemplate as a Load Balancer Client
You can configure a
RestTemplate
to use a Load-balancer client. To create a load-balanced
RestTemplate
, create a
RestTemplate
@Bean
and use the
@LoadBalanced
qualifier, as the following example shows:
@Configuration
public class MyConfiguration {
@LoadBalanced
@Bean
RestTemplate restTemplate() {
return new RestTemplate();
}
}
public class MyClass {
@Autowired
private RestTemplate restTemplate;
public String doOtherStuff() {
String results = restTemplate.getForObject("http://stores/stores", String.class);
return results;
}
}
A bean is no longer created through auto-configuration. Individual applications must create it. |
The URI needs to use a virtual host name (that is, a service name, not a host name). The BlockingLoadBalancerClient is used to create a full physical address.
To use a load-balanced , you need to have a load-balancer implementation in your classpath. Add Spring Cloud LoadBalancer starter to your project in order to use it. |
2.4. Spring WebClient as a Load Balancer Client
You can configure
WebClient
to automatically use a load-balancer client. To create a load-balanced
WebClient
, create a
WebClient.Builder
@Bean
and use the
@LoadBalanced
qualifier, as follows:
@Configuration
public class MyConfiguration {
@Bean
@LoadBalanced
public WebClient.Builder loadBalancedWebClientBuilder() {
return WebClient.builder();
}
}
public class MyClass {
@Autowired
private WebClient.Builder webClientBuilder;
public Mono<String> doOtherStuff() {
return webClientBuilder.build().get().uri("http://stores/stores")
.retrieve().bodyToMono(String.class);
}
}
The URI needs to use a virtual host name (that is, a service name, not a host name). The Spring Cloud LoadBalancer is used to create a full physical address.
If you want to use a , you need to have a load balancer implementation in the classpath. We recommend that you add the Spring Cloud LoadBalancer starter to your project. Then, is used underneath. |
2.4.1. Retrying Failed Requests
A load-balanced
RestTemplate
can be configured to retry failed requests. By default, this logic is disabled. You can enable it by adding Spring Retry to your application’s classpath. If you would like to disable the retry logic with Spring Retry on the classpath, you can set
spring.cloud.loadbalancer.retry.enabled=false
.
If you would like to implement a
BackOffPolicy
in your retries, you need to create a bean of type
LoadBalancedRetryFactory
and override the
createBackOffPolicy
method:
@Configuration
public class MyConfiguration {
@Bean
LoadBalancedRetryFactory retryFactory() {
return new LoadBalancedRetryFactory() {
@Override
public BackOffPolicy createBackOffPolicy(String service) {
return new ExponentialBackOffPolicy();
}
};
}
}
If you want to add one or more
RetryListener
implementations to your retry functionality, you need to create a bean of type
LoadBalancedRetryListenerFactory
and return the
RetryListener
array you would like to use for a given service, as the following example shows:
@Configuration
public class MyConfiguration {
@Bean
LoadBalancedRetryListenerFactory retryListenerFactory() {
return new LoadBalancedRetryListenerFactory() {
@Override
public RetryListener[] createRetryListeners(String service) {
return new RetryListener[]{new RetryListener() {
@Override
public <T, E extends Throwable> boolean open(RetryContext context, RetryCallback<T, E> callback) {
//TODO Do you business...
return true;
}
@Override
public <T, E extends Throwable> void close(RetryContext context, RetryCallback<T, E> callback, Throwable throwable) {
//TODO Do you business...
}
@Override
public <T, E extends Throwable> void onError(RetryContext context, RetryCallback<T, E> callback, Throwable throwable) {
//TODO Do you business...
}
}};
}
};
}
}
2.5. Multiple RestTemplate
Objects
RestTemplate
If you want a
RestTemplate
that is not load-balanced, create a
RestTemplate
bean and inject it. To access the load-balanced
RestTemplate
, use the
@LoadBalanced
qualifier when you create your
@Bean
, as the following example shows:
@Configuration
public class MyConfiguration {
@LoadBalanced
@Bean
RestTemplate loadBalanced() {
return new RestTemplate();
}
@Primary
@Bean
RestTemplate restTemplate() {
return new RestTemplate();
}
}
public class MyClass {
@Autowired
private RestTemplate restTemplate;
@Autowired
@LoadBalanced
private RestTemplate loadBalanced;
public String doOtherStuff() {
return loadBalanced.getForObject("http://stores/stores", String.class);
}
public String doStuff() {
return restTemplate.getForObject("http://example.com", String.class);
}
}
Notice the use of the annotation on the plain declaration in the preceding example to disambiguate the unqualified injection. |
If you see errors such as , try injecting or setting . |
2.6. Multiple WebClient Objects
If you want a
WebClient
that is not load-balanced, create a
WebClient
bean and inject it. To access the load-balanced
WebClient
, use the
@LoadBalanced
qualifier when you create your
@Bean
, as the following example shows:
@Configuration
public class MyConfiguration {
@LoadBalanced
@Bean
WebClient.Builder loadBalanced() {
return WebClient.builder();
}
@Primary
@Bean
WebClient.Builder webClient() {
return WebClient.builder();
}
}
public class MyClass {
@Autowired
private WebClient.Builder webClientBuilder;
@Autowired
@LoadBalanced
private WebClient.Builder loadBalanced;
public Mono<String> doOtherStuff() {
return loadBalanced.build().get().uri("http://stores/stores")
.retrieve().bodyToMono(String.class);
}
public Mono<String> doStuff() {
return webClientBuilder.build().get().uri("http://example.com")
.retrieve().bodyToMono(String.class);
}
}
2.7. Spring WebFlux WebClient
as a Load Balancer Client
WebClient
The Spring WebFlux can work with both reactive and non-reactive
WebClient
configurations, as the topics describe:
- Spring WebFlux
withWebClient
ReactorLoadBalancerExchangeFilterFunction
- [load-balancer-exchange-filter-functionload-balancer-exchange-filter-function]
2.7.1. Spring WebFlux
WebClient
with
ReactorLoadBalancerExchangeFilterFunction
You can configure
WebClient
to use the
ReactiveLoadBalancer
. If you add Spring Cloud LoadBalancer starter to your project and if
spring-webflux
is on the classpath,
ReactorLoadBalancerExchangeFilterFunction
is auto-configured. The following example shows how to configure a
WebClient
to use reactive load-balancer:
public class MyClass {
@Autowired
private ReactorLoadBalancerExchangeFilterFunction lbFunction;
public Mono<String> doOtherStuff() {
return WebClient.builder().baseUrl("http://stores")
.filter(lbFunction)
.build()
.get()
.uri("/stores")
.retrieve()
.bodyToMono(String.class);
}
}
The URI needs to use a virtual host name (that is, a service name, not a host name). The
ReactorLoadBalancer
is used to create a full physical address.
2.7.2. Spring WebFlux
WebClient
with a Non-reactive Load Balancer Client
If
spring-webflux
is on the classpath,
LoadBalancerExchangeFilterFunction
is auto-configured. Note, however, that this uses a non-reactive client under the hood. The following example shows how to configure a
WebClient
to use load-balancer:
public class MyClass {
@Autowired
private LoadBalancerExchangeFilterFunction lbFunction;
public Mono<String> doOtherStuff() {
return WebClient.builder().baseUrl("http://stores")
.filter(lbFunction)
.build()
.get()
.uri("/stores")
.retrieve()
.bodyToMono(String.class);
}
}
The URI needs to use a virtual host name (that is, a service name, not a host name). The
LoadBalancerClient
is used to create a full physical address.
WARN: This approach is now deprecated. We suggest that you use WebFlux with reactive Load-Balancer instead.
2.8. Ignore Network Interfaces
Sometimes, it is useful to ignore certain named network interfaces so that they can be excluded from Service Discovery registration (for example, when running in a Docker container). A list of regular expressions can be set to cause the desired network interfaces to be ignored. The following configuration ignores the
docker0
interface and all interfaces that start with
veth
:
Example 2. application.yml
spring:
cloud:
inetutils:
ignoredInterfaces:
- docker0
- veth.*
You can also force the use of only specified network addresses by using a list of regular expressions, as the following example shows:
Example 3. bootstrap.yml
spring:
cloud:
inetutils:
preferredNetworks:
- 192.168
- 10.0
You can also force the use of only site-local addresses, as the following example shows:
Example 4. application.yml
spring:
cloud:
inetutils:
useOnlySiteLocalInterfaces: true
See Inet4Address.html.isSiteLocalAddress() for more details about what constitutes a site-local address.
2.9. HTTP Client Factories
Spring Cloud Commons provides beans for creating both Apache HTTP clients (
ApacheHttpClientFactory
) and OK HTTP clients (
OkHttpClientFactory
). The
OkHttpClientFactory
bean is created only if the OK HTTP jar is on the classpath. In addition, Spring Cloud Commons provides beans for creating the connection managers used by both clients:
ApacheHttpClientConnectionManagerFactory
for the Apache HTTP client and
OkHttpClientConnectionPoolFactory
for the OK HTTP client. If you would like to customize how the HTTP clients are created in downstream projects, you can provide your own implementation of these beans. In addition, if you provide a bean of type
HttpClientBuilder
or
OkHttpClient.Builder
, the default factories use these builders as the basis for the builders returned to downstream projects. You can also disable the creation of these beans by setting
spring.cloud.httpclientfactories.apache.enabled
or
spring.cloud.httpclientfactories.ok.enabled
to
false
.
2.10. Enabled Features
Spring Cloud Commons provides a
/features
actuator endpoint. This endpoint returns features available on the classpath and whether they are enabled. The information returned includes the feature type, name, version, and vendor.
2.10.1. Feature types
There are two types of 'features': abstract and named.
Abstract features are features where an interface or abstract class is defined and that an implementation the creates, such as
DiscoveryClient
,
LoadBalancerClient
, or
LockService
. The abstract class or interface is used to find a bean of that type in the context. The version displayed is
bean.getClass().getPackage().getImplementationVersion()
.
Named features are features that do not have a particular class they implement. These features include “Circuit Breaker”, “API Gateway”, “Spring Cloud Bus”, and others. These features require a name and a bean type.
2.10.2. Declaring features
Any module can declare any number of
HasFeature
beans, as the following examples show:
@Bean
public HasFeatures commonsFeatures() {
return HasFeatures.abstractFeatures(DiscoveryClient.class, LoadBalancerClient.class);
}
@Bean
public HasFeatures consulFeatures() {
return HasFeatures.namedFeatures(
new NamedFeature("Spring Cloud Bus", ConsulBusAutoConfiguration.class),
new NamedFeature("Circuit Breaker", HystrixCommandAspect.class));
}
@Bean
HasFeatures localFeatures() {
return HasFeatures.builder()
.abstractFeature(Something.class)
.namedFeature(new NamedFeature("Some Other Feature", Someother.class))
.abstractFeature(Somethingelse.class)
.build();
}
Each of these beans should go in an appropriately guarded
@Configuration
.
2.11. Spring Cloud Compatibility Verification
Due to the fact that some users have problem with setting up Spring Cloud application, we’ve decided to add a compatibility verification mechanism. It will break if your current setup is not compatible with Spring Cloud requirements, together with a report, showing what exactly went wrong.
At the moment we verify which version of Spring Boot is added to your classpath.
Example of a report
***************************
APPLICATION FAILED TO START
***************************
Description:
Your project setup is incompatible with our requirements due to following reasons:
- Spring Boot [2.1.0.RELEASE] is not compatible with this Spring Cloud release train
Action:
Consider applying the following actions:
- Change Spring Boot version to one of the following versions [1.2.x, 1.3.x] .
You can find the latest Spring Boot versions here [https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot#learn].
If you want to learn more about the Spring Cloud Release train compatibility, you can visit this page [https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud#overview] and check the [Release Trains] section.
In order to disable this feature, set
spring.cloud.compatibility-verifier.enabled
to
false
. If you want to override the compatible Spring Boot versions, just set the
spring.cloud.compatibility-verifier.compatible-boot-versions
property with a comma separated list of compatible Spring Boot versions.
3. Spring Cloud LoadBalancer
Spring Cloud provides its own client-side load-balancer abstraction and implementation. For the load-balancing mechanism,
ReactiveLoadBalancer
interface has been added and a Round-Robin-based implementation has been provided for it. In order to get instances to select from reactive
ServiceInstanceListSupplier
is used. Currently we support a service-discovery-based implementation of
ServiceInstanceListSupplier
that retrieves available instances from Service Discovery using a Discovery Client available in the classpath.
3.1. Spring Cloud LoadBalancer integrations
In order to make it easy to use Spring Cloud LoadBalancer, we provide
ReactorLoadBalancerExchangeFilterFunction
that can be used with
WebClient
and
BlockingLoadBalancerClient
that works with
RestTemplate
. You can see more information and examples of usage in the following sections:
- Spring RestTemplate as a Load Balancer Client
- Spring WebClient as a Load Balancer Client
- Spring WebFlux WebClient with
ReactorLoadBalancerExchangeFilterFunction
3.2. Spring Cloud LoadBalancer Caching
Apart from the basic
ServiceInstanceListSupplier
implementation that retrieves instances via
DiscoveryClient
each time it has to choose an instance, we provide two caching implementations.
3.2.1. Caffeine-backed LoadBalancer Cache Implementation
If you have
com.github.ben-manes.caffeine:caffeine
in the classpath, Caffeine-based implementation will be used. See the LoadBalancerCacheConfiguration section for information on how to configure it.
If you are using Caffeine, you can also override the default Caffeine Cache setup for the LoadBalancer by passing your own Caffeine Specification in the
spring.cloud.loadbalancer.cache.caffeine.spec
property.
WARN: Passing your own Caffeine specification will override any other LoadBalancerCache settings, including General LoadBalancer Cache Configuration fields, such as
ttl
and
capacity
.
3.2.2. Default LoadBalancer Cache Implementation
If you do not have Caffeine in the classpath, the
DefaultLoadBalancerCache
, which comes automatically with
spring-cloud-starter-loadbalancer
, will be used. See the LoadBalancerCacheConfiguration section for information on how to configure it.
To use Caffeine instead of the default cache, add the dependency to classpath. |
3.2.3. LoadBalancer Cache Configuration
You can set your own
ttl
value (the time after write after which entries should be expired), expressed as
Duration
, by passing a
String
compliant with the Spring Boot
String
to
Duration
converter syntax. as the value of the
spring.cloud.loadbalancer.cache.ttl
property. You can also set your own LoadBalancer cache initial capacity by setting the value of the
spring.cloud.loadbalancer.cache.capacity
property.
The default setup includes
ttl
set to 35 seconds and the default
initialCapacity
is
256
.
You can also altogether disable loadBalancer caching by setting the value of
spring.cloud.loadbalancer.cache.enabled
to
false
.
Although the basic, non-cached, implementation is useful for prototyping and testing, it’s much less efficient than the cached versions, so we recommend always using the cached version in production. |
3.3. Zone-Based Load-Balancing
To enable zone-based load-balancing, we provide the
ZonePreferenceServiceInstanceListSupplier
. We use
DiscoveryClient
-specific
zone
configuration (for example,
eureka.instance.metadata-map.zone
) to pick the zone that the client tries to filter available service instances for.
You can also override -specific zone setup by setting the value of property. |
For the time being, only Eureka Discovery Client is instrumented to set the LoadBalancer zone. For other discovery client, set the property. More instrumentations coming shortly. |
To determine the zone of a retrieved , we check the value under the key in its metadata map. |
The
ZonePreferenceServiceInstanceListSupplier
filters retrieved instances and only returns the ones within the same zone. If the zone is
null
or there are no instances within the same zone, it returns all the retrieved instances.
In order to use the zone-based load-balancing approach, you will have to instantiate a
ZonePreferenceServiceInstanceListSupplier
bean in a custom configuration.
We use delegates to work with
ServiceInstanceListSupplier
beans. We suggest passing a
DiscoveryClientServiceInstanceListSupplier
delegate in the constructor of
ZonePreferenceServiceInstanceListSupplier
and, in turn, wrapping the latter with a
CachingServiceInstanceListSupplier
to leverage LoadBalancer caching mechanism.
You could use this sample configuration to set it up:
public class CustomLoadBalancerConfiguration {
@Bean
public ServiceInstanceListSupplier discoveryClientServiceInstanceListSupplier(
ConfigurableApplicationContext context) {
return ServiceInstanceListSuppliers.builder()
.withDiscoveryClient()
.withZonePreference()
.withCaching()
.build(context);
}
}
3.4. Instance Health-Check for LoadBalancer
It is possible to enable a scheduled HealthCheck for the LoadBalancer. The
HealthCheckServiceInstanceListSupplier
is provided for that. It regularly verifies if the instances provided by a delegate
ServiceInstanceListSupplier
are still alive and only returns the healthy instances, unless there are none - then it returns all the retrieved instances.
This mechanism is particularly helpful while using the . For the clients backed by an actual Service Registry, it’s not necessary to use, as we already get healthy instances after querying the external ServiceDiscovery. |
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This supplier is also recommended for setups with a small number of instances per service in order to avoid retrying calls on a failing instance.
HealthCheckServiceInstanceListSupplier
uses properties prefixed with
spring.cloud.loadbalancer.health-check
. You can set the
initialDelay
and
interval
for the scheduler. You can set the default path for the healthcheck URL by setting the value of the
spring.cloud.loadbalancer.health-check.path.default
. You can also set a specific value for any given service by setting the value of the
spring.cloud.loadbalancer.health-check.path.[SERVICE_ID]
, substituting the
[SERVICE_ID]
with the correct ID of your service. If the path is not set,
/actuator/health
is used by default.
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If you rely on the default path (
/actuator/health
), make sure you add
spring-boot-starter-actuator
to your collaborator’s dependencies, unless you are planning to add such an endpoint on your own.
In order to use the health-check scheduler approach, you will have to instantiate a
HealthCheckServiceInstanceListSupplier
bean in a custom configuration.
We use delegates to work with
ServiceInstanceListSupplier
beans. We suggest passing a
DiscoveryClientServiceInstanceListSupplier
delegate in the constructor of
HealthCheckServiceInstanceListSupplier
.
You could use this sample configuration to set it up:
public class CustomLoadBalancerConfiguration {
@Bean
public ServiceInstanceListSupplier discoveryClientServiceInstanceListSupplier(
ConfigurableApplicationContext context) {
return ServiceInstanceListSupplier.builder()
.withDiscoveryClient()
.withHealthChecks()
.build(context);
}
}
NOTE
HealthCheckServiceInstanceListSupplier
has its own caching mechanism based on Reactor Flux
replay()
, therefore, if it’s being used, you may want to skip wrapping that supplier with
CachingServiceInstanceListSupplier
.
3.5. Spring Cloud LoadBalancer Starter
We also provide a starter that allows you to easily add Spring Cloud LoadBalancer in a Spring Boot app. In order to use it, just add
org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-loadbalancer
to your Spring Cloud dependencies in your build file.
Spring Cloud LoadBalancer starter includes Spring Boot Caching and Evictor. |
3.6. Passing Your Own Spring Cloud LoadBalancer Configuration
You can also use the
@LoadBalancerClient
annotation to pass your own load-balancer client configuration, passing the name of the load-balancer client and the configuration class, as follows:
@Configuration
@LoadBalancerClient(value = "stores", configuration = CustomLoadBalancerConfiguration.class)
public class MyConfiguration {
@Bean
@LoadBalanced
public WebClient.Builder loadBalancedWebClientBuilder() {
return WebClient.builder();
}
}
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In order to make working on your own LoadBalancer configuration easier, we have added a
builder()
method to the
ServiceInstanceListSupplier
class.
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You can also use our alternative predefined configurations in place of the default ones by setting the value of
spring.cloud.loadbalancer.configurations
property to
zone-preference
to use
ZonePreferenceServiceInstanceListSupplier
with caching or to
health-check
to use
HealthCheckServiceInstanceListSupplier
with caching.
You can use this feature to instantiate different implementations of
ServiceInstanceListSupplier
or
ReactorLoadBalancer
, either written by you, or provided by us as alternatives (for example
ZonePreferenceServiceInstanceListSupplier
) to override the default setup.
You can see an example of a custom configuration here.
The annotation arguments ( in the example above) specifies the service id of the service that we should send the requests to with the given custom configuration. |
You can also pass multiple configurations (for more than one load-balancer client) through the
@LoadBalancerClients
annotation, as the following example shows:
@Configuration
@LoadBalancerClients({@LoadBalancerClient(value = "stores", configuration = StoresLoadBalancerClientConfiguration.class), @LoadBalancerClient(value = "customers", configuration = CustomersLoadBalancerClientConfiguration.class)})
public class MyConfiguration {
@Bean
@LoadBalanced
public WebClient.Builder loadBalancedWebClientBuilder() {
return WebClient.builder();
}
}
4. Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker
4.1. Introduction
Spring Cloud Circuit breaker provides an abstraction across different circuit breaker implementations. It provides a consistent API to use in your applications, letting you, the developer, choose the circuit breaker implementation that best fits your needs for your application.
4.1.1. Supported Implementations
Spring Cloud supports the following circuit-breaker implementations:
- Resilience4J
- Sentinel
- Spring Retry
4.2. Core Concepts
To create a circuit breaker in your code, you can use the
CircuitBreakerFactory
API. When you include a Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker starter on your classpath, a bean that implements this API is automatically created for you. The following example shows a simple example of how to use this API:
@Service
public static class DemoControllerService {
private RestTemplate rest;
private CircuitBreakerFactory cbFactory;
public DemoControllerService(RestTemplate rest, CircuitBreakerFactory cbFactory) {
this.rest = rest;
this.cbFactory = cbFactory;
}
public String slow() {
return cbFactory.create("slow").run(() -> rest.getForObject("/slow", String.class), throwable -> "fallback");
}
}
The
CircuitBreakerFactory.create
API creates an instance of a class called
CircuitBreaker
. The
run
method takes a
Supplier
and a
Function
. The
Supplier
is the code that you are going to wrap in a circuit breaker. The
Function
is the fallback that is executed if the circuit breaker is tripped. The function is passed the
Throwable
that caused the fallback to be triggered. You can optionally exclude the fallback if you do not want to provide one.
4.2.1. Circuit Breakers In Reactive Code
If Project Reactor is on the class path, you can also use
ReactiveCircuitBreakerFactory
for your reactive code. The following example shows how to do so:
@Service
public static class DemoControllerService {
private ReactiveCircuitBreakerFactory cbFactory;
private WebClient webClient;
public DemoControllerService(WebClient webClient, ReactiveCircuitBreakerFactory cbFactory) {
this.webClient = webClient;
this.cbFactory = cbFactory;
}
public Mono<String> slow() {
return webClient.get().uri("/slow").retrieve().bodyToMono(String.class).transform(
it -> cbFactory.create("slow").run(it, throwable -> return Mono.just("fallback")));
}
}
The
ReactiveCircuitBreakerFactory.create
API creates an instance of a class called
ReactiveCircuitBreaker
. The
run
method takes a
Mono
or a
Flux
and wraps it in a circuit breaker. You can optionally profile a fallback
Function
, which will be called if the circuit breaker is tripped and is passed the
Throwable
that caused the failure.
4.3. Configuration
You can configure your circuit breakers by creating beans of type
Customizer
. The
Customizer
interface has a single method (called
customize
) that takes the
Object
to customize.
For detailed information on how to customize a given implementation see the following documentation:
- Resilience4J
- Sentinal
- Spring Retry
Some
CircuitBreaker
implementations such as
Resilience4JCircuitBreaker
call
customize
method every time
CircuitBreaker#run
is called. It can be inefficient. In that case, you can use
CircuitBreaker#once
method. It is useful where calling
customize
many times doesn’t make sense, for example, in case of consuming Resilience4j’s events.
The following example shows the way for each
io.github.resilience4j.circuitbreaker.CircuitBreaker
to consume events.
Customizer.once(circuitBreaker -> {
circuitBreaker.getEventPublisher()
.onStateTransition(event -> log.info("{}: {}", event.getCircuitBreakerName(), event.getStateTransition()));
}, CircuitBreaker::getName)
5. CachedRandomPropertySource
Spring Cloud Context provides a
PropertySource
that caches random values based on a key. Outside of the caching functionality it works the same as Spring Boot’s
RandomValuePropertySource
. This random value might be useful in the case where you want a random value that is consistent even after the Spring Application context restarts. The property value takes the form of
cachedrandom.[yourkey].[type]
where
yourkey
is the key in the cache. The
type
value can be any type supported by Spring Boot’s
RandomValuePropertySource
.
myrandom=${cachedrandom.appname.value}
6. Configuration Properties
To see the list of all Spring Cloud Commons related configuration properties please check the Appendix page.