spring-boot-scala

About

This is an example project on how to set up a Spring Boot microservice using Scala and SBT. Furthermore, some adjustments are made to the project configuration so that the project is easily exportable to different formats like a Docker image, zip, rpm, deb, zip, msi or dmg. The awesome sbt-native-packager plugin is used for that.

The idea behind this project is simply to show the few specialities in syntax when using the Java-centric Spring framework with Scala, especially in regard of annotations and dependency injection.

Also you don't have to be afraid to mix Scala and Java code which is shown by sharing the service instance with two controllers, one implemented in Scala, the other in Java.

Just browse the code, it's only a few files and lines. :)

Prerequisites

The project was developed with the following versions but other version might also work.

• Java 8
• SBT 0.13.15

Additionally, for the containerization features you need

• Docker 17.06.0-ce
• docker-compose 1.14.0

The service

The application will boot up a Spring Boot application, exposing two request handlers under the path http://localhost:8080/test and http://localhost:8080/testjava.

A configuration instance of type MyServiceConfiguration is created and a configuration key is loaded from the file application.yml and injected into the configuration instance by Spring. This configuration instance is provided to the service instance of class MyService.

The service provides one method that simply returns a simple string and the value loaded from the configuration.

The request handlers are defined in the Scala class MyServiceController and the Java class MyServiceJavaController. The instances receive the service instance via dependency injection. They call the service in their request handlers and return a string composed of a greeting message and the service call result (another String as mentioned above).

Running

There are different ways on how to execute the application.

• For quick testing, you can simply call sbt run on the command line. On the first time, this will download all required dependencies. Then the main class of the application is executed and the Spring Boot application is started. This way of running the application is only recommended for development purposes since the whole application is started in the same JVM that SBT is running in, which you would not want to happen in a production environment.
• In order to compile the project, package it and let SBT generate a startup-script, execute sbt universal:stage. In the folder target/universal/stage you find the result. You have a lib folder containing all dependencies and a bin folder that contains the automatically generated startup-scripts. Execute bin/springbootscala on Linux and Mac or bin/springbootscala.bat on Windows.

Containerization

You can easily create a Docker image from the project by calling sbt docker:publishLocal. This will create a Docker image based on openjdk:8-jre-alpine image. The image is extended by adding all dependencies and the startup-scripts. Run the command docker images and you will see the image being available.

In order to start a container based on that image and expose port 8080 of the container to your local machine, simply execute docker-compose up in the project folder. There is a docker-compose.yml for that purpose.

Further ideas

• Definately check the sbt-native-packager plugin for other options how you can export the application.