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pvpkiran
pvpkiran

Reputation: 27068

Micronaut not Failfast

I am trying my hands on Micronaut. One of the things I noticed is that Micronaut doesn't failfast.

For example If I have something like this in my bean 

@Value("${my.url}")
private String url;

And if there is no property defined with key my.url, then

  1. With Springboot, the server wouldn't start.
  2. With Micronaut server would start. But throws an exception when trying to access that variable.

I would assume it would be better to failfast(as in springboot). So was wondering if this is possible in micronaut as well.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1469

Answers (2)

Steven Grimm
Steven Grimm

Reputation: 481

Use eager initialization to make the application fail at startup if there are configuration errors. Example from the Micronaut docs, for cases where the configuration properties are in dedicated beans annotated with @ConfigurationProperties or similar:

public class Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Micronaut.build(args)
            .eagerInitConfiguration(true)  // Add this to fail fast
            .mainClass(Application.class)
            .start();
    }
}

However, this won't work for configuration properties in regular beans. You can move the configuration to dedicated configuration beans, or, if that'd be too messy, you can tell Micronaut to eagerly initialize everything, which will increase startup time but will fail fast if beans can't be initialized. Replace eagerInitConfiguration with eagerInitSingletons in the above example (and see the docs for more details).

Upvotes: 3

Graeme Rocher
Graeme Rocher

Reputation: 7985

You can use @ConfigurationProperties for this and make sure it is @Context scope since by default Micronaut beans are not created on startup. By making them @Context scope the bean will be created when the application starts.

The following:

import io.micronaut.context.annotation.*;
import javax.validation.constraints.*;

@ConfigurationProperties("my")
@Context
class MyConfig {

    private @NotNull String url;

    public String getUrl() {
        return url;
    }

    public void setUrl(String url) {
        this.url = url;
    }

}

Results in 

08:38:38.568 [main] ERROR io.micronaut.runtime.Micronaut - Error starting Micronaut server: Bean definition [fresh.java.MyConfig] could not be loaded: Error instantiating bean of type  [fresh.java.MyConfig]

Message: Validation failed for bean definition [fresh.java.MyConfig]
List of constraint violations:[
        url - must not be null
]

When the server startups up.

Make Sure you add this dependency

compile "io.micronaut.configuration:micronaut-hibernate-validator"

Upvotes: 6

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