Can a spring boot @RestController be enabled/disabled using properties?

Question

Given a \"standard\" spring boot application with a @RestController, eg

@RestController
@RequestMapping(value = \"foo\", produces = \"applicatio         


        

Answer 1

I assume this question comes from the fact that you are using different application.properties files for your different enviroments. In this case you can use spring profiles and separate configurations into different files with profile name suffix for example:

application.properties:

spring.profiles.active=@activatedProperties@

application-local.properties:

 //some config

application-prod.properties:

//some config

then in your build paramethers you can specify which enviroment are you building by adding option:

-Dspring.profiles.active= //<-put here profile local or prod

then in your application you can enable/disable any spring bean by adding

@Profile("put here profile name")

for example:

@RestController
@Profile("local")
@RequestMapping("/testApi")
public class RestForTesting{

//do some stuff

}

now my RestForTesting will be created only if im running a build created with

-Dspring.profiles.active=local