I am having problems integrating perf4j in an existing maven application.
I tried several approaches, but none of them seemed to work, so I was wondering if anyone has some insight into how this is done.
What I want to do is use the AOP part of perf4j on some methods and log them into a different file than the one used for app logging. Thanks
You might be suffering from the same declaration order issue as mentioned in another perf4j/logback related question. In short, it is always a good idea to enable printing of logback's internal status messages by setting the debug attribute to true within the configuration element. Also do not forget that any referenced appender must be declared beforehand.
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New to Spring Boot here, long-time Spring Framework user though.
I'm looking for a way to split my externalised configuration into multiple .properties files, for better readability and manageability.
I already saw this SO answer: having the ability to specify a list of configuration file names in spring.config.name (which, by the way, doesn't seem to be mentioned in Boot reference documentation, correct me if I'm wrong) would solve my problem perfectly, however that configuration property can be specified only via system properties or environment variables. If I try to specify it inside my application.properties file, it gets ignored. The same happens for spring.config.additional-location. I understand this happens because, when application.properties is read, it's too late to tell Spring Boot to search for different externalised configuration file names. However this is not a proper solution, because the way I split my configuration should be an "implementation detail" that the consumer of my application shouldn't be aware of, so I don't expect the consumer to specify an external parameter otherwise my application breaks out-of-the-box.
I think that a way to do this should be provided. Perhaps some import mechanism for .properties files or the ability to specify spring.config.name even in application.properties (some known and reasonable limitations would be acceptable).
The best I could find out is to use #PropertySource, but this is not profile aware: unless you use some ugly nested class hack, or you put spring.profiles.active variable in the resource name (which will break if multiple profiles have been activated), you won't get the benefit you have for application.properties profile-specific files.
I was not able to find an "official way" to do this, apart from some statements from Spring Boot devs that say that they're rather promoting the use of a single (possibly giant...) externalised configuration file. It seems like this position is not so popular, judging from the post reactions on GitHub, and IMHO it really seems to be a basic feature missing. I have been working with multiple properties files in Spring Framework (using XML configuration) for years and I never felt that having an only huge file would have been better.
If I understand it right, in Boot 1.x this was in some way possible using the location attribute of #ConfigurationProperties, which is however missing in Boot 2.x.
Any suggestion?
Have you tried with Spring Profile?
What you can do is create application-file1.properties/yml, application-file2.properties/yml and put it in config location and then add spring.profile.active=<your env profiles>,file1,file2.
It will load the files.
This profile entry can be in bootstrap.yml, or JVM args to application, in Manifest-<env>.yml in case of Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Not sure on AWS and other cloud provider.
Hope this will help.
I was trying to create a new Spring Boot project using start.spring.io. Searching for dependencies, I found that there was no AspectJ starter available. Has this dependency removed/deprecated from Spring Boot starters? Here is a screen shot:
I, however, was able to find the dependency on maven repositories website:
It was removed indeed. #jwenting explained in a nutshell why. This starer is required if you want to create your own aspect or if you want to use some advanced AOP mode.
Most users don't need it and whenever a library requires it, its starter brings it automatically. Having a dedicated entry was confusing as we saw a very large amount of users picking this up for no good reason.
Also, please keep in mind that start.spring.io is not an exhaustive list of what you can do with Spring. We're focusing on the getting started experience only and avoiding cases that could lead to confusion. This one is a good example of the latter.
it's an implicit dependency, meaning you don't have to include it because it's automatically pulled in by anything that needs it.
You can still add it explicitly, but there's no need to (and afaik it's never been needed).
I am using Spring AOP with #AspectJ syntax in my project. May I know how to get the output in a file? Does any way to do that already exist?
Since your question is very vague, it is hard to give you an exact answer.
But the intuitive way would be to add a logger from a logging framework like Log4J or LogBack (preferable accessed through SLF4J) in your aspect class and configure the appender to write to a separate file.
Or to separate things more cleanly, you may write a separate aspect that wraps the other aspect and does logging. But pay attention to Advice Ordering if you do it that way.
I have a following question. We use log4j in our two projects, that are hosted on the same GlassFish server. Each project has inside log4j.properties file, that points to the files, that are based in different catalogs (let's name them Project1 and Project2).
Now, for some unclear reasons sometimes the info messages of the first project are written to Project2 log files, and the reverse is also true. I checked the log4j.properties files for both of the projects, there is nothing pointing in them to the log of the other project.
The suspicion is that log4j is not actually thread-safe, therefore if two users are working in two systems in the same time, the messages of the loggers can get mixed. Is this suspicion correct?
Yes, log4j is thread safe:
Yes, log4j is thread-safe. Log4j components are designed to be used in
heavily multithreaded systems.
Ref.
What you are describing sounds more like a config mistake, rather than a cross process/threading issue.
Yes, log4j is thread safe. The reason is the method AppenderSkeleton.doAppend() is synchronized. But be carefull configuring programmatically!
For example you can't use the same instance of TTCCLayout in different appenders(read javadoc)! Take a look at PatternLayout method format(). It changes instance field(StringBuffer sbuf), so if you use same PatternLayout instance in different appenders you are to face race conditions. EnhancedPatternLayout is better, cause they modified format method.
I have a problem configuring IntelliJ IDEA for developing spring and maven powered application.
App has two separate spring configurations for production and test purposes. In spring facet props in IDEA I created two different file sets but when configuring one of contexts IDEA shows variants for both ones in code completion. How can I deal with this?
Thanks
Aleksander
The only option is to create two different filesets of spring config. If the beans are defined in both the filesets, it would links the beans to both filesets. Obviously I don't think it (or any IDE) is capable of resolving if it has to use main/test filesets based on your code path. Hope they would enhance the sprint context(fileset) resolution based on the code path (source/test). But it would be difficult for the IDE as the main business logic falls in both main/test context during the flow.
IDEA 2016.2 has checkbox: Check test files:
After check on IDEA stop complain, that test files not included in Spring Facet.
Try to play with it.