dubbo-spring-boot-autoconfigure

Dubbo Spring Boot Auto-Configure

dubbo-spring-boot-autoconfigure uses Spring Boot's @EnableAutoConfiguration which helps core Dubbo's components to be auto-configured by DubboAutoConfiguration. It reduces code, eliminates XML configuration.

Content

1. Main Content
2. Integrate with Maven
3. Auto Configuration
4. Externalized Configuration
5. Dubbo Annotation-Driven (Chinese)
6. Dubbo Externalized Configuration (Chinese)

Integrate with Maven

You can introduce the latest dubbo-spring-boot-autoconfigure to your project by adding the following dependency to your pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.dubbo</groupId>
    <artifactId>dubbo-spring-boot-autoconfigure</artifactId>
    <version>2.7.4.1</version>
</dependency>

If your project failed to resolve the dependency, try to add the following repository:

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>apache.snapshots.https</id>
        <name>Apache Development Snapshot Repository</name>
        <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
        <releases>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
        </releases>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
        </snapshots>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Auto Configuration

Since 2.5.7 , Dubbo totally supports Annotation-Driven , core Dubbo's components that are registered and initialized in Spring application context , including exterialized configuration features. However , those features need to trigger in manual configuration , e.g @DubboComponentScan , @EnableDubboConfig or @EnableDubbo.

If you'd like to learn more , please read Dubbo Annotation-Driven (Chinese)

dubbo-spring-boot-autoconfigure uses Spring Boot's @EnableAutoConfiguration which helps core Dubbo's components to be auto-configured by DubboAutoConfiguration. It reduces code, eliminates XML configuration.

Externalized Configuration

Externalized Configuration is a core feature of Spring Boot , Dubbo Spring Boot not only supports it definitely , but also inherits Dubbo's Externalized Configuration, thus it provides single and multiple Dubbo's *Config Bindings from PropertySources , and "dubbo." is a common prefix of property name.

If you'd like to learn more , please read Dubbo Externalized Configuration(Chinese).

Single Dubbo Config Bean Bindings

In most use scenarios , "Single Dubbo Config Bean Bindings" is enough , because a Dubbo application only requires single Bean of *Config (e.g ApplicationConfig). You add properties in application.properties to configure Dubbo's *Config Beans that you want , be like this :

dubbo.application.name = foo
dubbo.application.owner = bar
dubbo.registry.address = 10.20.153.10:9090

There are two Spring Beans will be initialized when Spring ApplicatonContext is ready, their Bean types are ApplicationConfig and RegistryConfig.

Getting Single Dubbo Config Bean

If application requires current ApplicationConfig Bean in somewhere , you can get it from Spring BeanFactory as those code :

BeanFactory beanFactory = .... 
ApplicationConfig applicationConfig = beanFactory.getBean(ApplicationConfig.class)

or inject it :

@Autowired
private ApplicationConfig application;

Identifying Single Dubbo Config Bean

If you'd like to identify this ApplicationConfig Bean , you could add "id" property:

dubbo.application.id = application-bean-id

Mapping Single Dubbo Config Bean

The whole Properties Mapping of "Single Dubbo Config Bean Bindings" lists below :

Dubbo *Config Type	The prefix of property name for Single Bindings
ProtocolConfig	dubbo.protocol
ApplicationConfig	dubbo.application
ModuleConfig	dubbo.module
RegistryConfig	dubbo.registry
MonitorConfig	dubbo.monitor
ProviderConfig	dubbo.provider
ConsumerConfig	dubbo.consumer

An example properties :

# Single Dubbo Config Bindings
## ApplicationConfig
dubbo.application.id = applicationBean
dubbo.application.name = dubbo-demo-application

## ModuleConfig
dubbo.module.id = moduleBean
dubbo.module.name = dubbo-demo-module

## RegistryConfig
dubbo.registry.address = zookeeper://192.168.99.100:32770

## ProtocolConfig
dubbo.protocol.name = dubbo
dubbo.protocol.port = 20880

## MonitorConfig
dubbo.monitor.address = zookeeper://127.0.0.1:32770

## ProviderConfig
dubbo.provider.host = 127.0.0.1

## ConsumerConfig
dubbo.consumer.client = netty

Multiple Dubbo Config Bean Bindings

In contrast , "Multiple Dubbo Config Bean Bindings" means Externalized Configuration will be used to configure multiple Dubbo *Config Beans.

Getting Multiple Dubbo Config Bean

The whole Properties Mapping of "Multiple Dubbo Config Bean Bindings" lists below :

Dubbo *Config Type	The prefix of property name for Multiple Bindings
ProtocolConfig	dubbo.protocols
ApplicationConfig	dubbo.applications
ModuleConfig	dubbo.modules
RegistryConfig	dubbo.registries
MonitorConfig	dubbo.monitors
ProviderConfig	dubbo.providers
ConsumerConfig	dubbo.consumers

Identifying Multiple Dubbo Config Bean

There is a different way to identify Multiple Dubbo Config Bean , the configuration pattern is like this :

${config-property-prefix}.${config-bean-id}.${property-name} = some value , let's explain those placehoders :

• ${config-property-prefix} : The The prefix of property name for Multiple Bindings , e.g. dubbo.protocols, dubbo.applications and so on.
• ${config-bean-id} : The bean id of Dubbo's *Config
• ${property-name}: The property name of *Config

An example properties :

dubbo.applications.application1.name = dubbo-demo-application
dubbo.applications.application2.name = dubbo-demo-application2
dubbo.modules.module1.name = dubbo-demo-module
dubbo.registries.registry1.address = zookeeper://192.168.99.100:32770
dubbo.protocols.protocol1.name = dubbo
dubbo.protocols.protocol1.port = 20880
dubbo.monitors.monitor1.address = zookeeper://127.0.0.1:32770
dubbo.providers.provider1.host = 127.0.0.1
dubbo.consumers.consumer1.client = netty

IDE Support

If you used advanced IDE tools , for instance Jetbrains IDEA Ultimate develops Dubbo Spring Boot application, it will popup the tips of Dubbo Configuration Bindings in application.properties :

Case 1 - Single Bindings

Case 2 - Mutiple Bindings

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