spring cloud config without post /refresh

Question

I use spring cloud config. Config server gets property from git repo. Client update own property only after I send post request to /refresh endpoint on client. How can I compel client refresh property after config server handle "change property" event?

Answer 1

spring cloud bus introduced for refresh all the micro-services when we call to "/bus/refresh" endpoint. You try this by exposing "/refresh" endpoint

Answer 2

To reload config files of config server upon changing some parameter. For that you can try programmatic restart option. That can be done by closing the application context and creating a new context from scratch. That can be done in a following simple way.

    public static void restart() {
    ApplicationArguments args = context.getBean(ApplicationArguments.class);

    Thread thread = new Thread(() -> {
        context.close();
        context = SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args.getSourceArgs());
    });

    thread.setDaemon(false);
    thread.start();
}