Spring Zuul: Dynamically disable a route to a service - spring-boot

Question

I'm trying to disable a Zuul route to a microservice registered with Eureka at runtime (I'm using spring boot).
This is an example:
localhost/hello
localhost/world
Those two are the registered microservices. I would like to disable the route to one of them at runtime without shutting it down.
Is there a way to do this?
Thank you,
Nano

Answer 1

Alternatively to using Cloud Config, custom ZuulFilter can be used. Something like (partial implementation to show the concept):
public class BlackListFilter extends ZuulFilter {
#Override
public String filterType() {
return "pre";
}
...
#Override
public Object run() {
RequestContext ctx = RequestContext.getCurrentContext();
String uri = ctx.getRequest().getRequestURI();
String appId = uri.split("/")[1];
if (blackList.contains(appId)) {
ctx.setSendZuulResponse(false);
LOG.info("Request '{}' from {}:{} is blocked",
uri, ctx.getRequest().getRemoteHost(), ctx.getRequest().getRemotePort());
}
return null;
}
}
where blackList contains list of application IDs (Spring Boot application name) managed for example via some RESTful API.

Answer 2

After a lot of efforts I came up with this solution. First, I used Netflix Archaius to watch a property file. Then I proceeded as follows:
public class ApplicationRouteLocator extends SimpleRouteLocator implements RefreshableRouteLocator {
public ApplicationRouteLocator(String servletPath, ZuulProperties properties) {
super(servletPath, properties );
}
#Override
public void refresh() {
doRefresh();
}
}
Made the doRefresh() method public by extending SimpleRouteLocator and calling its method in the overridden one of the interface RefreshableRouteLocator.
Then I redefined the bean RouteLocator with my custom implementation:
#Configuration
#EnableConfigurationProperties( { ZuulProperties.class } )
public class ZuulConfig {
public static ApplicationRouteLocator simpleRouteLocator;
#Autowired
private ZuulProperties zuulProperties;
#Autowired
private ServerProperties server;
#Bean
#Primary
public RouteLocator routeLocator() {
logger.info( "zuulProperties are: {}", zuulProperties );
simpleRouteLocator = new ApplicationRouteLocator( this.server.getServletPrefix(),
this.zuulProperties );
ConfigurationManager.getConfigInstance().addConfigurationListener( configurationListener );
return simpleRouteLocator;
}
private ConfigurationListener configurationListener =
new ConfigurationListener() {
#Override
public void configurationChanged( ConfigurationEvent ce ) {
// zuulProperties.getRoutes() do something
// zuulProperties.getIgnoredPatterns() do something
simpleRouteLocator.refresh();
}
}
}
Every time a property in the file was modified an event was triggered and the ConfigurationEvent was able to deal with it (getPropertyName() and getPropertyValue() to extract data from the event). Since I also Autowired the ZuulProperties I was able to get access to it. With the right rule I could find whether the property of Zuul
zuul.ignoredPatterns
was modified changing its value in the ZuulProperties accordingly.

Answer 3

Here refresh context should work (as long as you are not adding a new routing rule or removing a currently existing one), if you are adding or removing routing rules, you have to add a new bean for ZuulProperties and mark it with #RefreshScope, #Primary.
You can autowire refreshEndpoint bean for example and apply refreshEndpoint.refresh() on the listener.
Marking a custom RouteLocator as primary will cause problems as zuul already has bean of same type marked as primary.