Citrus Framework: Spring vs Spring Boot / spring-cloud-azure-starter-keyvault-secrets Usage

[pablopaul]

Citrus Version
4.1.0

Question

1. My understanding is that Citrus Framework uses Spring, but not Spring Boot. Is that correct?

I want to use spring-cloud-azure-starter-keyvault-secrets to securely store and retrieve a test secret. With the mentioned package it should be possible that a value in the application.properties file get replaced automagically with the according secret in a Azure key vault.

2. Do you think this package should work with a Citrus Framework project or is it not expected to work since it needs a Spring Boot application?

3. Would it be sensible and would you suggest to convert a Citrus Framework Spring project into a Citrus Framework Spring Boot project or is this non sense?

What I've tried so far

I have tried to integrate "spring-cloud-azure-starter-keyvault-secrets" as described in the official docs under "Use Spring Key Vault PropertySource".
The value in the application.properties does not get replaced as expected.

Thank you!

[bbortt]

sorry for the late answer, but there you go... let me know if that helps.

automagically

never heard that one 😆 gave me a good laugh.

My understanding is that Citrus Framework uses Spring, but not Spring Boot. Is that correct?

partly. the core (citrus-api and citrus-base) have been written in pure java. citrus-spring is just another connector, but not a necessity.

this is also documented in the Maven chapter.

Do you think this package should work with a Citrus Framework project or is it not expected to work since it needs a Spring Boot application?

I would expect it to work out of the box, with regards to the comment below...

Would it be sensible and would you suggest to convert a Citrus Framework Spring project into a Citrus Framework Spring Boot project or is this non sense?

That is a sensible decision. You could then do something like the below:

@SpringBootTest(classes = { AzureConfiguration.class })
class MyTest {

    // Continue with the test here...
}

We do this almost all the time in my company.

[pablopaul]

@bbortt thank you very much for taking the time to answer my questions in detail. Much appreciated!