Resilience4j on spring-boot2 - circuit breaker not opening

Question

Following the getting started guide (https://resilience4j.readme.io/docs/getting-started-3) and the demo project (https://github.com/resilience4j/resilience4j-spring-boot2-demo) I wanted to test it by myself creating a simpler test application.

Here is the code:

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;

@Configuration
public class ServiceConfiguration {

    @Bean
    public RestTemplate restTemplate(){
        return new RestTemplate();
    }
}

Controller:

@RestController
public class ServiceController {

    @Autowired
    private  AlbumService albumService;


    @GetMapping("/albums")
    ResponseEntity<String> getAlbums() {
       return albumService.getAlbums();
    }

}

And the service class:

@Slf4j
@Service
public class AlbumService {

    @Autowired
    private  RestTemplate restTemplate;

    @CircuitBreaker(name = "albumService", fallbackMethod = "getDefaultAlbumList")
    public ResponseEntity<String> getAlbums() {
        String url = MockNeat.secure().probabilites(String.class)
                .add(0.7, "https://wrong-url.com")
                .add(0.3, "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/albums").val();
        return new ResponseEntity<>(restTemplate.getForObject(url, String.class), HttpStatus.OK);
    }

    private ResponseEntity<String> getDefaultAlbumList(Exception ex) throws URISyntaxException, IOException {
        log.info("Recovered: " + ex.getMessage());
        return new ResponseEntity<>(new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("fallback-album-list.json").toURI()))), HttpStatus.OK);
    }
}

Finally here the application file:

resilience4j:
  circuitbreaker:
    configs:
      default:
        registerHealthIndicator: true
        slidingWindowSize: 10
        minimumNumberOfCalls: 5
        permittedNumberOfCallsInHalfOpenState: 3
        automaticTransitionFromOpenToHalfOpenEnabled: true
        waitDurationInOpenState: 5s
        failureRateThreshold: 50
        eventConsumerBufferSize: 10
    instances:
      albumService:
        baseConfig: default

management:
  endpoints:
    web:
      exposure:
        include: '*'
  endpoint:
    health:
      show-details: always
  metrics:
    distribution:
      percentiles-histogram:
        http:
          server:
            request: true
        resielence4j:
          circuitbreaker:
            calls: true

I have introduced a random error with 70% probability to test the circuit breaker. However, the circuit never opens and I always get error. I have no idea what I am missing! Any help?

Answer 1

Found the problem! I have forgotten to include spring-aop as dependency! Here is my pom.xml in case someone encounters the same problem:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.0.RELEASE</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>r4j</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>r4j</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>jcenter</id>
            <url>https://jcenter.bintray.com/</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.andreinc.mockneat</groupId>
            <artifactId>mockneat</artifactId>
            <version>0.3.9</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
            <version>1.18.12</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.github.resilience4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>resilience4j-spring-boot2</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-aop</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.0.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.0.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

</project>