How to run executable-jar file in spring-boot application outside eclipse when its built using gradle? - spring-boot

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I am able to run the spring-boot (using gradle build) application using Eclipse IDE and http://localhost:8080/ runs the app fine without any problem.
I'm now trying to run the same application using command line like this - java -jar foodapp and I get the output similar to the one I get when run in Eclipse as following:
Sandeeps-MacBook-Pro:libs sandeepamarnath$ java -jar foodapp-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
. ____ _ __ _ _
/\\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __ __ _ \ \ \ \
( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \
\\/ ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| | ) ) ) )
' |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / /
=========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/
:: Spring Boot :: (v2.1.6.RELEASE)
2019-09-12 20:20:17.292 INFO 785 --- [ main] c.s.foodapp.FoodappApplication : Starting FoodappApplication on Sandeeps-MacBook-Pro.local with PID 785 (/Users/sandeepamarnath/Desktop/ShareMyRecipe-Java/foodapp/build/libs/foodapp-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar started by sandeepamarnath in /Users/sandeepamarnath/Desktop/ShareMyRecipe-Java/foodapp/build/libs)
2019-09-12 20:20:17.295 INFO 785 --- [ main] c.s.foodapp.FoodappApplication : No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default
2019-09-12 20:20:17.797 INFO 785 --- [ main] .s.d.r.c.RepositoryConfigurationDelegate : Bootstrapping Spring Data repositories in DEFAULT mode.
2019-09-12 20:20:17.863 INFO 785 --- [ main] .s.d.r.c.RepositoryConfigurationDelegate : Finished Spring Data repository scanning in 59ms. Found 2 repository interfaces.
2019-09-12 20:20:18.184 INFO 785 --- [ main] trationDelegate$BeanPostProcessorChecker : Bean 'org.springframework.transaction.annotation.ProxyTransactionManagementConfiguration' of type [org.springframework.transaction.annotation.ProxyTransactionManagementConfiguration$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$df477ee1] is not eligible for getting processed by all BeanPostProcessors (for example: not eligible for auto-proxying)
2019-09-12 20:20:18.455 INFO 785 --- [ main] o.s.b.w.embedded.tomcat.TomcatWebServer : Tomcat initialized with port(s): 8080 (http)
2019-09-12 20:20:18.485 INFO 785 --- [ main] o.apache.catalina.core.StandardService : Starting service [Tomcat]
2019-09-12 20:20:18.485 INFO 785 --- [ main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine : Starting Servlet engine: [Apache Tomcat/9.0.21]
2019-09-12 20:20:18.737 INFO 785 --- [ main] org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner : At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.
2019-09-12 20:20:18.901 INFO 785 --- [ main] o.a.c.c.C.[Tomcat].[localhost].[/] : Initializing Spring embedded WebApplicationContext
2019-09-12 20:20:18.901 INFO 785 --- [ main] o.s.web.context.ContextLoader : Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 1572 ms
2019-09-12 20:20:19.128 INFO 785 --- [ main] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource : HikariPool-1 - Starting...
2019-09-12 20:20:19.868 INFO 785 --- [ main] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource : HikariPool-1 - Start completed.
2019-09-12 20:20:19.919 INFO 785 --- [ main] o.hibernate.jpa.internal.util.LogHelper : HHH000204: Processing PersistenceUnitInfo [
name: default
...]
2019-09-12 20:20:19.992 INFO 785 --- [ main] org.hibernate.Version : HHH000412: Hibernate Core {5.3.10.Final}
2019-09-12 20:20:19.994 INFO 785 --- [ main] org.hibernate.cfg.Environment : HHH000206: hibernate.properties not found
2019-09-12 20:20:20.164 INFO 785 --- [ main] o.hibernate.annotations.common.Version : HCANN000001: Hibernate Commons Annotations {5.0.4.Final}
2019-09-12 20:20:20.441 INFO 785 --- [ main] org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect : HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect
2019-09-12 20:20:22.047 INFO 785 --- [ main] j.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean : Initialized JPA EntityManagerFactory for persistence unit 'default'
2019-09-12 20:20:22.705 INFO 785 --- [ main] o.s.s.web.DefaultSecurityFilterChain : Creating filter chain: any request, [org.springframework.security.web.context.request.async.WebAsyncManagerIntegrationFilter#2a79d4b1, org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter#7d42c224, org.springframework.security.web.header.HeaderWriterFilter#20b12f8a, org.springframework.security.web.csrf.CsrfFilter#544820b7, org.springframework.security.web.authentication.logout.LogoutFilter#23d1e5d0, org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter#68ad99fe, org.springframework.security.web.savedrequest.RequestCacheAwareFilter#522a32b1, org.springframework.security.web.servletapi.SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter#5ddea849, org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationFilter#2e9fda69, org.springframework.security.web.session.SessionManagementFilter#2e554a3b, org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter#2e61d218, org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor#3f6db3fb]
2019-09-12 20:20:22.859 INFO 785 --- [ main] o.s.s.concurrent.ThreadPoolTaskExecutor : Initializing ExecutorService 'applicationTaskExecutor'
2019-09-12 20:20:22.908 WARN 785 --- [ main] aWebConfiguration$JpaWebMvcConfiguration : spring.jpa.open-in-view is enabled by default. Therefore, database queries may be performed during view rendering. Explicitly configure spring.jpa.open-in-view to disable this warning
2019-09-12 20:20:23.140 INFO 785 --- [ main] o.s.b.w.embedded.tomcat.TomcatWebServer : Tomcat started on port(s): 8080 (http) with context path ''
2019-09-12 20:20:23.142 INFO 785 --- [ main] c.s.foodapp.FoodappApplication : Started FoodappApplication in 21.143 seconds (JVM running for 21.485)
2019-09-12 20:20:35.404 INFO 785 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] o.a.c.c.C.[Tomcat].[localhost].[/] : Initializing Spring DispatcherServlet 'dispatcherServlet'
2019-09-12 20:20:35.404 INFO 785 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet : Initializing Servlet 'dispatcherServlet'
2019-09-12 20:20:35.411 INFO 785 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet : Completed initialization in 7 ms
2019-09-12 20:20:35.579 INFO 785 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] o.h.h.i.QueryTranslatorFactoryInitiator : HHH000397: Using ASTQueryTranslatorFactory
But, When I run the localhost:8080 in the browser I get error like below
Whitelabel Error Page
This application has no explicit mapping for /error, so you are seeing this as a fallback.
Thu Sep 12 20:20:40 EDT 2019
There was an unexpected error (type=Not Found, status=404).
/WEB-INF/view/index.jsp
Though I am getting the same message in eclipse and command line, when the app is run, why is that I am not able to get the browser working the second time in the command line version. Please let me know what I am doing wrong. Thanks for your time.
My gradle file contains:
plugins {
id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.1.6.RELEASE'
id 'java'
}
jar {
manifest {
attributes 'Main-Class': 'com.sharemyrecipe.foodapp.FoodappApplication.java'
}
from { configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) } }
}
apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'
group = 'com.sharemyrecipe'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = '1.8'
configurations {
developmentOnly
runtimeClasspath {
extendsFrom developmentOnly
}
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa'
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security'
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
developmentOnly 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools'
runtimeOnly 'mysql:mysql-connector-java'
testImplementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test'
testImplementation 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-test'
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/jstl/jstl
compile group: 'jstl', name: 'jstl', version: '1.2'
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.security/spring-security-taglibs
compile group: 'org.springframework.security', name: 'spring-security-taglibs'
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tomcat.embed/tomcat-embed-jasper
compile group: 'org.apache.tomcat.embed', name: 'tomcat-embed-jasper'
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/javax.servlet-api
compile group: 'javax.servlet', name: 'javax.servlet-api'
}

Answer 1

I found an answer to my question, hope it might help someone. As mentioned in Running an executable jar file built from a gradle based project
In build.gradle file I added
task runFinalJar(type: JavaExec) {
classpath = files('build/libs/foo.jar')
classpath += sourceSets.main.runtimeClasspath
main = 'com.sharemyrecipe.foodapp.FoodappApplication'
}
And in the command line (in the folder where gradlew exists), executed the command
./gradlew runFinalJar
and now it runs perfectly fine. Thanks to Eugen Martynov