How to get local server host and port in Spring Boot?

Question

I\'m starting up a Spring Boot application with mvn spring-boot:run.

One of my @Controllers needs information about the host and port the a

Answer 1

One solution mentioned in a reply by @M. Deinum is one that I've used in a number of Akka apps:

object Localhost {

  /**
   * @return String for the local hostname
   */
  def hostname(): String = InetAddress.getLocalHost.getHostName

  /**
   * @return String for the host IP address
   */
  def ip(): String = InetAddress.getLocalHost.getHostAddress

}

I've used this method when building a callback URL for Oozie REST so that Oozie could callback to my REST service and it's worked like a charm