Is it possible to share some properties for limited group of microservices? I mean I just want to declare common datasourse in one place for several microservices, which will use the same database
I try to implement it using gradle variables, which should consist all data related to db connection with profiles, but probably easier way to do it exists.
Thanks
Yes it is. You're looking for "Spring Cloud Config" server:
Spring Cloud’s config server acts as a single source of configuration
data for all other services in a microservice-based application. It is
itself a microservice whose job is to obtain configuration data from a
Git repository and serve it via RESTful endpoints. All other services
can either consume the config server’s API directly or, if they’re
Spring applications, treat the configuration server as another
property source in Spring’s Environment abstraction.
You can find a nice reading along with examples here.
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I am currently creating a Java Spring application that works with the spring security JWT. Everywhere I look and read about the "secret string", it says should be changed in production. Like this line in my application.properties: security.jwt.secret="this-is-a-512-bit-key-used-for-signing-jwt-tokens-that-should-be-changed-production"
As well as in stackoverflow question that are sort-of related like this one here: How to include jwt secret in application.yaml for Java Spring.
My question is, what should that string become in production? Am I supposed to generate this somewhere in a SecurityConfig class? Or should I generate a 512 bit string and just paste that in the application.properties file?
Thanks in advance.
Secrets should not be added in your regular application.properties file because that would be checked into your version control system. There are various ways to externalize configuration but the easiest is usually to define environment variables.
In your case, you would need an environment variable called SECURITY_JWT_SECRET and Spring Boot will pick this up automatically.
One way to change properties of a spring app is using Spring Cloud Config. Basically your config is in a GitHub repo and as soon as you modify, Spring cloud config server propagates it to other applications referencing it through application.properties.
https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/reference/html/
I will share how it has been done in our application which I think one of the standard way of storing credentials.
There may be alternate ways also.
Its not ideal to store token or credentials in properties
We can externalize the token into Vault or config server
when server starts spring application can fetch the properties
Access to vault are controlled
As we have different vault servers across environments, we can store and change the token in runtime and refresh the application.
Regarding generating the jwt token, it should have some expiry time and refreshed periodically.
My target is to build a GraphQL server on Spring with (1) GraphiQL IDE (2) dynamic GraphQL schema at run-time. My GraphQL engine is GraphQL-Java.
In my first try, I use graphql-java-spring-boot-starter-webmvc and graphiql-spring-boot-starter.
Both the GraphQL server and the GraphiQL work well.
However, under the graphql-java-spring-boot-starter-webmvc framework, a #Bean of GraphQL class is needed. In this bean, the schema is loaded when the server starts so it could not been updated.
In my second try, I don't use graphql-java-spring-boot-starter-webmvc. Instead, I choose spring-boot-starter-web to start the web server and define my own RestController. This is easy to update the GraphQL instance. But I don't find a way to integrate with GraphiQL. I googled GraphiQL+Spring but all solutions are with graphql-java-spring-boot-starter.
Appreciate if anyone could provide me an idea on either approach.
It can be enabled in properties:
graphql.graphiql.enabled=true
It is accessible via the root url +/graphiql example http://localhost:8080/graphiql
You can find a good detailed example here : https://github.com/NoorKrichen/GraphQL-Spring-Boot-Example
Do you have a sample of your setup in git?
It sounds like some configuration problem. But naturally using graphql-java-spring-boot-starter-webmvc all your *.graphql schemas should be picked up in the configured schema resource path. check if you have the path set in your application.yml or if your schema is in the configured path if its already set or by default.
On your second point: "I googled GraphiQL+Spring but all solutions are with graphql-java-spring-boot-starter."
This makes sense for quick guides and demos as using Springboot the plumbing is somehow hidden away from you so that you can focus on the technology at hand being demo'd in this case GraphQl.
On GraphiQL:
Sounds like you are intending to have this embedded with your application, you may not want to do so in production. Depending on your use case there are many other alternatives that are standalone and gives you all the functionality of GraphiQL plus more e.g Altair Graphql Client and Insomnia to name a few.
I'm planning to work on a multi-tenancy application and for now I'm just looking at different implementations on the web to understand the requirements needed to implement such task.
Hibernate + Spring boot are the technologies I'm planning to use.
From my readings, all the different tutorials are using the same approach which is to declare the data sources in a config file so that session factories are launched with the boot of the application, but I really want to have a higher level of the app, where I can add tenants dynamically and input their data sources informations.
This way the application can get the information of the new tenant without the need to touch the config files and re-boot the app.
I thought about having a separate database where I can store my tenants data source credentials or something like that. Can you give me another approach to solve this requirement or a link to an existing implementation that I can refer to.
Thanks
I got similar requirements in the past.
I implemented DataSource proxy class. The class has tenant resolver and a map of simple DataSources. All the places where we need a DataSource use the proxy.
On any method call e.g. getConnection() it resolves tenant, check whether the map contains already created DataSource (if not a new DataSource is created for the tenant and stored in the DB). Then the same method of real DataSource from the map is invoked.
Tenant resolver is ThreadLocal based where tenant value is stored in a filter (got tenant from request header) and used in the DataSource proxy.
What you need to do is using dynamic datasource routing of Spring Framweork via AbstractRoutingDataSource. This answer explains all for you.
In my question.I implements MultiTenantConnectionProvider and CurrentTenantIdentifierResolver.And use DataSourceLookup to choose datasource by tenant.This links is helpful to me.
Here is a full working example of a database-per-tenant multitenat app I built using Spring Boot 2, Spring JPA (Hibernate), Spring Security 5 running on MySQL.
I have explained how it all works and have shared the entire code too.
Take a look here.
I'm building a fairly simple Spring Boot application which needs some configuration to be set (and regularly updated as part of it's use). I'd like to create a simple admin interface and first-run wizard to set/update this configuration.
I'd like a way to easily read and write these configuration values within the application and have them persist. I would like to avoid the overhead of a database for 5-10 configuration strings. There is some good documentation on externalising configuration in Spring Boot but it doesn't talk about how this config could be updated and persisted by the app.
Options I have come up with:
There is a write option with Spring configuration that I'm not aware of (this would be awesome)
Don't use the Spring Boot configuration functionality, instead use apache commons configuration (or similar??) to read and write to a file which lives in a location specified by an environment variable
as per option 2 but use HSQL, H2 or Derby as a file-based database
Thanks for any suggestions as to how best to achieve this.
While developing a springboot-liquibase application following this I need to specify the database username + password as liquibase.user and liquibase.password in the application.properties file. I am looking for a better secure way to use these parameter (dynamically fetched from some other place and use inside my java code)
Is there a way to achieve this?
There are couple of things you can do:
You can encrypt you properties file using jasypt-spring-boot. For more details have a look at demo app
If you are developing distributed system, then spring-cloud-config provides server and client-side support for externalized configuration in a distributed system. With the Config Server you have a central place to manage external properties for applications across all environments
Spring Cloud Config
This project allows you to use an external, centralized configuration repository for one or more applications. You don't need to rebuild your application if a property changes. You can simply change the property in your configuration repository and even push the changes to all of your applications.
See this Getting Started Guide.