Spring Cloud Config client doesn't get values from server

Question

I have been following this tutorial from Baeldung in setting up a Spring Cloud Config server and client. I believe I have set up the server correctly since going to http://localhost:8888/service-config/development/master will seemingly correctly show the json with the user.role defined:

{"name":"service-config","profiles":["development"],"label":"master","version":"d30a6015a6b8cb1925f6e61cee22721f331e5783","state":null,"propertySources":[{"name":"file:///C:.../git/service-config-data/service-config-development.properties","source":{"user.role":"Developer"}},{"name":"file:///C:.../git/service-config-data/service-config.properties","source":{"user.role":"Developer"}}]}

However, I cannot seem to correctly connect the Spring Cloud Config client to the server - the client fails to run with cannot resolve placeholder errors on the @Value("${user.role}") annotation. I've tried adding a default value to the annotation and then manually refreshing the values (using the @refreshscope annotation), but to no avail.

I've looked at the debug and trace logs by running the tools with --debug --trace flags but I cannot find when/if the client is making the call to the server and which config-data .properties file the server is actually looking for. I am a bit lost on how to proceed.

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Here is my server application.properties:

spring.application.name=service-config
server.port=8888
spring.cloud.config.server.git.uri=file:///${user.home}/git/service-config-data
spring.cloud.config.server.git.clone-on-start=false
spring.security.user.name=root
spring.security.user.password=toor

And inside the service-config-data folder, there are files with this inside:

user.role=Developer

I have tried files called service-config.properties, service-config-client.properties, service-config-development.properties, and service-config-client-development.properties, and none of them seem to pull through the user.role.

Here is my client:

@SpringBootApplication
@RestController
@RefreshScope
public class ServiceConfigClient {

    @Value("${user.role:unknown}")
    private String role;

    @RequestMapping(
      value = "/whoami/{username}", 
      method = RequestMethod.GET, 
      produces = MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_VALUE)
    public String whoami(@PathVariable("username") String username) {
        return String.format("Hello! You're %s and you'll become a(n) %s...\n", username, role);
    }
}

And my client bootstrap.properties:

spring.application.name=service-config-client
spring.profiles.active=development
spring.cloud.config.uri=http://localhost:8888
spring.cloud.config.username=root
spring.cloud.config.password=toor

management.endpoints.web.exposure.include=*

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How do I correctly connect the client to the server so that it can successfully pull the config data? Thank you.

Answer 1

My problem was fixed by adding spring.cloud.config.name=service-config to the bootstrap.properties of the service-config-client as well as adding spring-cloud-config-client to and removing spring-cloud-config-server from my pom.xml