Load balancer does not have available server for client

Question

I\'m trying to use Feign client. Below is my feing client:

import com.eprogrammerz.examples.domain.Movie;
import org.springframework.cloud.netflix.feign.Feig         


        

Answer 1

If your Spring Cloud set up does not support specifying the servers in application.properties/application.yml, you have to configure the services URL in a Configuration class.

Pls, note the warning message in my application.properties [Spring Boot v2.0.0RELEASE, spring-cloud-starter-feign & spring-cloud-starter-ribbon v 1.4.3.RELEASE]

So what I did was to write a Configuration class as follows:

@Configuration
class LocalRibbonClientConfiguration {
    @Bean
    public ServerList<Server> ribbonServerList() {
        // return new ConfigurationBasedServerList();
        StaticServerList<Server> staticServerList = new StaticServerList<>((new Server("localhost", 8001)),
                new Server("localhost", 8000));
        return staticServerList;
    }
}

Then, configured the Spring Boot Application to use this configuration as follows:

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableFeignClients("my-package.currencyconversionservice")
@RibbonClient(name = "currency-conversion-service", configuration = LocalRibbonClientConfiguration.class)
public class CurrencyConversionServiceApplication {
 // nothing new here...
}

No need to change the Feign Proxy class. Posting just for this post to be served as a complete solution to the problem:

@FeignClient(name="currency-exchange-service")
@RibbonClient(name="currency-exchange-service")
public interface CurrencyExchangeServiceProxy {
    @GetMapping("/currency-exchange/from/{from}/to/{to}")
    public CurrencyConversionBean retrieveExchangeValue(@PathVariable("from") String from, @PathVariable("to") String to);
}

That's all. The problem was fixed.

Answer 2

You need to add Ribbon along with Eureka Client, otherwise the service won't be fetched.

in my pom.xml I have:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-client</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-netflix-ribbon</artifactId>
</dependency>

And in my service proxy:

@FeignClient(name = "movie-api")
@RibbonClient(name = "movie-api")
public interface MovieApi {
    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = "/movies/{id}")
    Movie getMovie(@PathVariable("id") Long id);
}