Circuit breaker design pattern implementation

Question

I have tried unsuccessfully to implement circuit breaker pattern, here, in Java using Spring framework.

How can you implement circuit breaker pattern by Java and Sp

Answer 1

You don't actually need to be using Spring cloud or Spring boot to use Hystrix.
Using hystrix-javanica makes it easy to use Hystrix with plain old Spring too.

Here is an example of fallback methods (both methods, getMessageTimeout and getMessageException, fail by default):

@Configuration
@ComponentScan
@EnableAspectJAutoProxy
public class CircuitBreakingWithHystrix {

  @Bean
  public HystrixCommandAspect hystrixAspect() {
    return new HystrixCommandAspect();
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable {
    ApplicationContext ctx
      = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(CircuitBreakingWithHystrix.class);
    ExampleService ex = ctx.getBean(ExampleService.class);
    for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
      System.out.println(ex.getMessageException());
      System.out.println(ex.getMessageTimeout());
    }
  }

  @Service
  class ExampleService {

    /*
     * The default Hystrix timeout is 1 second. So the default 
     * version of this method will always fail.  
     * Adding the @HystrixProperty will cause 
     * the method to succeed.
     */
    @HystrixCommand(
      commandProperties = { 
      //@HystrixProperty(name = EXECUTION_ISOLATION_THREAD_TIMEOUT_IN_MILLISECONDS,
      //                 value = "5000")
      },
      fallbackMethod = "messageFallback"
    )
    public String getMessageTimeout() {
      try {
        //Pause for 4 seconds
        Thread.sleep(4000);
      } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
        // Do something clever with this
      }
      return "result";
    }

    @HystrixCommand(
      fallbackMethod = "messageFallback")
    public String getMessageException() {
      throw new RuntimeException("Bad things happened");
    }

    private String messageFallback(Throwable hre) {
      return "fallback";
    }

  }

You can also examine the throwable sent to the fallback method to identify why the method call failed.