Spring Boot with Two MVC Configurations

Question

I have a Spring Boot app with a REST API, using Jackson for the JSON view configuration. It works great and I can get all the Spring Boot goodness.

However, I need t

Answer 1

If you can live with a different port for each context, then you only have to overwrite the DispatcherServletAutoConfiguration beans. All the rest of the magic works, multpart, Jackson etc. You can configure the Servlet and Jackson/Multipart etc. for each child-context separately and inject bean of the parent context.

package test;

import static org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.DispatcherServletAutoConfiguration.DEFAULT_DISPATCHER_SERVLET_BEAN_NAME;
import static org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.DispatcherServletAutoConfiguration.DEFAULT_DISPATCHER_SERVLET_REGISTRATION_BEAN_NAME;

import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
import org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.ServletRegistrationBean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.PropertySource;
import org.springframework.http.converter.json.Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = {
        Application.Context1.class,
        Application.Context2.class
})
public class Application extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

    @Bean
    public TestBean testBean() {
        return new TestBean();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final SpringApplicationBuilder builder = new SpringApplicationBuilder().parent(Application.class);
        builder.child(Context1.class).run();
        builder.child(Context2.class).run();
    }

    public static class TestBean {
    }

    @Configuration
    @EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = {Application.class, Context2.class})
    @PropertySource("classpath:context1.properties")
    public static class Context1 {

        @Bean(name = DEFAULT_DISPATCHER_SERVLET_BEAN_NAME)
        DispatcherServlet dispatcherServlet() {
            DispatcherServlet dispatcherServlet = new DispatcherServlet();
            // custom config here
            return dispatcherServlet;
        }

        @Bean(name = DEFAULT_DISPATCHER_SERVLET_REGISTRATION_BEAN_NAME)
        ServletRegistrationBean dispatcherServletRegistration() {
            ServletRegistrationBean registration = new ServletRegistrationBean(dispatcherServlet(), "/test1");
            registration.setName(DEFAULT_DISPATCHER_SERVLET_BEAN_NAME);
            // custom config here
            return registration;
        }

        @Bean
        Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder(TestBean testBean) {
            System.out.println(testBean);
            Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder builder = new Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder();
            // custom config here
            return builder;
        }
    }

    @Configuration
    @EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = {Application.class, Context1.class})
    @PropertySource("classpath:context2.properties")
    public static class Context2 {

        @Bean(name = DEFAULT_DISPATCHER_SERVLET_BEAN_NAME)
        DispatcherServlet dispatcherServlet() {
            DispatcherServlet dispatcherServlet = new DispatcherServlet();
            // custom config here
            return dispatcherServlet;
        }

        @Bean(name = DEFAULT_DISPATCHER_SERVLET_REGISTRATION_BEAN_NAME)
        ServletRegistrationBean dispatcherServletRegistration() {
            ServletRegistrationBean registration = new ServletRegistrationBean(dispatcherServlet(), "/test2");
            registration.setName(DEFAULT_DISPATCHER_SERVLET_BEAN_NAME);
            // custom config here
            return registration;
        }

        @Bean
        Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder(TestBean testBean) {
            System.out.println(testBean);
            Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder builder = new Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder();
            // custom config here
            return builder;
        }
    }
}

The context1/2.properties files currently only contain a server.port=8080/8081 but you can set all the other spring properties for the child contexts there.