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lanoxx
lanoxx

Reputation: 13071

Spring Web Application: Shutdown if initialization fails

I have a Spring web application. When the application context has started I use ApplicationListener<ContextRefreshedEvent> to perform some application initalization, in particular I load data from a web service. If this web service is not reachable then my application cannot do anything useful and it does not make sense to keep it running. Is there a way to programmatically shutdown the application context?

I have tried to do the following:

if (contextRefreshedEvent instanceof ConfigurableApplicationContext)
{
    ConfigurableApplicationContext configurableApplicationContext
            = (ConfigurableApplicationContext) contextRefreshedEvent;
    configurableApplicationContext.close ();
}

However rather then closing gracefully that produces the following exception:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: BeanFactory not initialized or already closed - call 'refresh' before accessing beans via the ApplicationContext

So what is the proper way to shutdown the application in such a situation?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1580

Answers (1)

Firmo
Firmo

Reputation: 41

Throw an ApplicationContextException. It worked for me with Spring 4.2.7.RELEASE

Upvotes: 2

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