Eureka service discovery without Spring-boot

Question

I have written a spring boot micro-service and a REST client. The client is a part of another module and make RESTful calls to the micro-service. The micro-service registers with the Eureka registry and I want my client (Which is not a spring boot project) to use the Eureka to query and get the service endpoints.

My problem is since the client is not a Spring-Boot applications I can not use the annotations like @SpringBootApplication, @EnableDiscoveryClient and the DiscoveryClient is not get auto wired to the application. Is there anyway to manually auto-wire the DiscoveryClient bean to the client without using the annotations ?

Answer 1

Well this is how I did It. Basically it is a lot easier than I anticipated. The following was copied from Netflix eureka project.

  DiscoveryManager.getInstance().initComponent(new MyDataCenterInstanceConfig(), new DefaultEurekaClientConfig());

  String vipAddress = "MY-SERVICE";

    InstanceInfo nextServerInfo = null;
    try {
        nextServerInfo = DiscoveryManager.getInstance()
                .getEurekaClient()
                .getNextServerFromEureka(vipAddress, false);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.err.println("Cannot get an instance of example service to talk to from eureka");
        System.exit(-1);
    }

    System.out.println("Found an instance of example service to talk to from eureka: "
            + nextServerInfo.getVIPAddress() + ":" + nextServerInfo.getPort());

    System.out.println("healthCheckUrl: " + nextServerInfo.getHealthCheckUrl());
    System.out.println("override: " + nextServerInfo.getOverriddenStatus());

    System.out.println("Server Host Name "+ nextServerInfo.getHostName() + " at port " + nextServerInfo.getPort() );

Also you have to add a configuration file to the class path. Eureka client uses this file to read the information about the eureka servers.

eureka.preferSameZone=true
eureka.shouldUseDns=false
eureka.serviceUrl.default=http://localhost:8761/eureka/
eureka.decoderName=JacksonJson

Also you have to provide the eureka client as a dependency. Eureka1 supports JDK7 though some part of it has been built with JDK8. However I had to provide older versions of "archaius-core" and "servo-core" to make it run with JDK7.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.netflix.archaius</groupId>
        <artifactId>archaius-core</artifactId>
        <version>0.7.3</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.netflix.servo</groupId>
        <artifactId>servo-core</artifactId>
        <version>0.10.0</version>
    </dependency>

Eureka2 fully supports JDK7.