Disable all Database related auto configuration in Spring Boot

Question

I am using Spring Boot to develop two applications, one serves as the server and other one is a client app. However, both of them are the same app that function differently based on the active profile. I am using auto configuration feature of Spring Boot to configure my applications.

I want to disable all the database related auto configuration on client app, since it won't be requiring database connection. Application should not try to establish connection with the database, nor try to use any of the Spring Data or Hibernate features. The enabling or disabling of the database auto configuration should be conditional and based on the active profile of the app.

Can I achieve this by creating two different application.properties files for respective profiles?

I tried adding this to my properties file,

spring.autoconfigure.exclude=org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration\
  org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration\
org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration\
  org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.data.web.SpringDataWebAutoConfiguration

But, the application still tries to connect to the database on start. Are those exclusions sufficient for achieving my requirement?

Answer 1

The way I would do similar thing is:

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class, DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration.class, HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class})
@Profile ("client_app_profile_name")
public class ClientAppConfiguration {
    //it can be left blank
}

Write similar one for the server app (without excludes).

Last step is to disable Auto Configuration from main spring boot class:

@SpringBootApplication
public class SomeApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(SomeApplication.class);
    }

    protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
        return application.sources(SomeApplication.class);
    }
}

Change: @SpringBootApplication into:

@Configuration 
@ComponentScan

This should do the job. Now, the dependencies that I excluded in the example might be incomplete. They were enough for me, but im not sure if its all to completely disable database related libraries. Check the list below to be sure:

http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current-SNAPSHOT/reference/htmlsingle/#auto-configuration-classes

Answer 2

For disabling all the database related autoconfiguration and exit from:

Cannot determine embedded database driver class for database type NONE

1. Using annotation:

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = {
    DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class,
    DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration.class,
    HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class})
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(PayPalApplication.class, args);
    }
}

2. Using Application.properties:

spring.autoconfigure.exclude=org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration, org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration

Answer 3

Seems like you just forgot the comma to separate the classes. So based on your configuration the following will work:

spring.autoconfigure.exclude=org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration,\
    org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration,\
    org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration,\
    org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.data.web.SpringDataWebAutoConfiguration

Alternatively you could also define it as follow:

spring.autoconfigure.exclude[0]=org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration
spring.autoconfigure.exclude[1]=org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration
spring.autoconfigure.exclude[2]=org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration
spring.autoconfigure.exclude[3]=org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.data.web.SpringDataWebAutoConfiguration

Answer 4

There's a way to exclude specific auto-configuration classes using @SpringBootApplication annotation.

@Import(MyPersistenceConfiguration.class)
@SpringBootApplication(exclude = {
        DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class, 
        DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration.class,
        HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class})
public class MySpringBootApplication {         
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(MySpringBootApplication.class, args);
    }
}

@SpringBootApplication#exclude attribute is an alias for @EnableAutoConfiguration#exclude attribute and I find it rather handy and useful.
I added @Import(MyPersistenceConfiguration.class) to the example to demonstrate how you can apply your custom database configuration.

Answer 5

If using application.yml:

spring:
  autoconfigure:
    exclude:
      - org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration
      - org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration
      - org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration
      - org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.data.web.SpringDataWebAutoConfiguration

Answer 6

Way out for me was to add

@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class, DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration.class, HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class})

annotation to class running Spring boot (marked with `@SpringBootApplication).

Finally, it looks like:

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class, DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration.class, HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class})
public class Application{

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
 }

Answer 7

Another way to control it via Profiles is this:

// note: no @SpringApplication annotation here
@Import(DatabaseConfig.class)
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

@Configuration
@Import({DatabaseConfig.WithDB.class, DatabaseConfig.WithoutDB.class})
public class DatabaseConfig {

    @Profile("!db")
    @EnableAutoConfiguration(
            exclude = {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class,   DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration.class,
                HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class})
    static class WithoutDB {

    }

    @Profile("db")
    @EnableAutoConfiguration
    static class WithDB {

    }
}

Answer 8

I had the same problem here, solved like this:

Just add another application-{yourprofile}.yml where "yourprofile" could be "client".

In my case I just wanted to remove Redis in a Dev profile, so I added a application-dev.yml next to the main application.yml and it did the job.

In this file I put:

spring.autoconfigure.exclude: org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.data.redis.RedisAutoConfiguration,org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.data.redis.RedisRepositoriesAutoConfiguration

this should work with properties files as well.

I like the fact that there is no need to change the application code to do that.

Answer 9

In my case the spring-boot-starter-jpa dependency was being loaded from other dependency. I did this to disable the DataSource:

1. Check the dependency tree with mvn dependency:tree

[INFO] com.backend.app:crud-manager:jar:0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] +- ...
[INFO] \- com.backend.app:crud-libraries:jar:0.1-SNAPSHOT:compile
[INFO]    +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter.data-jpa:jar:2.1.6.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    +- ....

2. There was a sub-dependency. Add an exclusion

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.backend.app</groupId>
  <artifactId>crud-libraries</artifactId>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion> 
     <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    <exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>

3. Exclude DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class in the Application file

import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc. DataSourceAutoConfiguration;

// add exclude
@SpringBootApplication(exclude = DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class)
public class ...

4. Ensure there is no spring-boot-starter-jpa in pom.xml

** Apart, in case you also need to make it work with spring-boot-starter-batch

In the BatchConfig file:

// add extends DefaultBatchConfig
public class BatchConfig extends DefaultBatchConfig {

//add override
@Override
public void setDataSource(DataSource dataSource) {}

Answer 10

By default in Spring, all the defined beans, and their dependencies, are created when the application context is created.

In contrast, when we configure a bean with lazy initialization, the bean will only be created, and its dependencies injected, once they're needed.

spring:
  main:
    lazy-initialization: true
  jpa:
    properties:
      hibernate: # lazy-initialization works with this dialect property to avoid run issues if DB is Down
        dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect

Answer 11

I add in myApp.java, after @SpringBootApplication

@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class, DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration.class, HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class})

And changed

@SpringBootApplication => @Configuration

So, I have this in my main class (myApp.java)

package br.com.company.project.app;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class, DataSourceTransactionManagerAutoConfiguration.class, HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class})
public class SomeApplication {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    SpringApplication.run(SomeApplication.class, args);
}

}

And work for me! =)

Answer 12

I was getting this error even if I did all the solutions mentioned above.

 by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/jdbc/DataSourceConfig ...

At some point when i look up the POM there was this dependency in it

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>

And the Pojo class had the following imports

import javax.persistence.Entity; import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue; import javax.persistence.Id;

Which clearly shows the application was expecting a datasource.

What I did was I removed the JPA dependency from pom and replaced the imports for the pojo with the following once

import org.springframework.data.annotation.Id; import org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.Document;

Finally I got SUCCESSFUL build. Check it out you might have run into the same problem

Answer 13

Also if you use Spring Actuator org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceHealthContributorAutoConfiguration might be initializing DataSource as well.