Spring Cloud Configuration Server not working with local properties file

Question

I have been playing around with the Spring Cloud project on github located here: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config

However I have been running into

Answer 1

I am able to read configuration for apple-service(Test Micro Service) using Spring config server.

Example application.yml of spring config application

spring:
    profiles:
        active: native
    cloud:
        config:
            server:
                native:
                    searchLocations: classpath:config/
server:
  port: 8888


endpoints:
    restart:
      enabled: true

Put your .properties or .yml files inside src\main\resources\config folder. Make sure name of this files should match spring.application.name of your micro service.

For example if spring.application.name=apple-service then property file should be apple-service.properties in src\main\resources\config folder.

Example bootstrap.yml of apple-service:

spring:
  application:
    name: apple-service

cloud:
  config:
    uri: http://localhost:8888

Answer 2

The config server will read the local properties files if the application.properties of config server contains:

spring.profiles.active=native
**spring.cloud.config.server.native.searchLocations=file:/source/tmp**

at /source/tmp directory, you store the local property file for client, for example:

http://localhost:8888/a-bootiful-client/default

you will get:

{"name":"a-bootiful-client","profiles":["default"],"label":null,"version":null,"state":null,"propertySources":[{"name":"file:/source/tmp/a-bootiful-client.properties","source":{"message":"Kim"}}]}

Answer 3

I was able to get it work with local repo and bootstrap configuration:

java -jar spring-cloud-config-server-1.0.0.M3-exec.jar --spring.config.name=bootstrap

The bootstrap.yml file is placed in ./config/ folder.

server:
  port: 8080
spring:
  config:
    name: cfg_server
  cloud:
    config:
      server:
       git:
        uri: /home/us/config_repo
        searchPaths: pmsvc,shpsvc

Answer 4

Here is what I did:

following https://medium.com/@danismaz.furkan/spring-cloud-config-with-file-system-backend-c18ae16b7ad5

1) !!dont forget your VM options!!:

-Dspring.profiles.active=native

(in Netbeans : configserver->project->properties>Run->VM options

2) Either in application.properties

#spring.cloud.config.server.native.searchLocations=file:///C:/tmp/config

spring.cloud.config.server.native.searchLocations=classpath:/config

or applications.yml

spring:

    cloud:

         config:

            server:

                native:

                    search-locations  : file:///C:/tmp/config
                    #search-locations : classpath:/config

Notes:

n1: search-locations and searchLocations both work

n2: file:/// => hard file path

Like

c:/temp/config/
           app-admin.yml
           app-admin-develop.yml
           .... 

n3: for your profile config files

classpath:/

Like

Other sources/src/main/resources/config/app-admin.yml

n4: I couldnt made file paths work without setting the vm options. Dont forget! Just setting spring.profiles.active=native in your application config does not do the trick for me

n5: example http queries

http://localhost:8998/app-admin/default/yml

gives app-admin.yml

http://localhost:8998/app-admin/develop/yml

gives app-admin-develop.yml

Answer 5

I had the same problem when running the Configuration Server in Mac OS environment. This did not happen in Linux or Windows.

I had the native property set in the bootstrap.yml file like this:

spring:
  profiles:
    active: native

Finally the way it worked for me on the mac was to pass the active profile to the jar file, like this.

java -jar config-server.jar --spring.profiles.active=native

I still don't know why it behaves differently in Mac OS.

Answer 6

I've had this issue on Mac when there is a space in a path to a file:

spring.cloud.config.server.native.search-locations=file:///Users/.../Development/Folder with a space /prj

Also pay attention that there are 3 slashes before Users:

spring.cloud.config.server.native.search-locations=file:///Users/...

or I use:

spring.cloud.config.server.native.search-locations=file://${user.home}/Desktop

The native property is:

spring.profiles.active=native