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

To get the port number in your code you can use the following:

@Autowired
Environment environment;

@GetMapping("/test")
String testConnection(){
    return "Your server is up and running at port: "+environment.getProperty("local.server.port");      
}

To understand the Environment property you can go through this Spring boot Environment