encity-company

Essentials

Configuration

Configuration of this microservice is done in two places:

1. Within src/resources/application.properties to avoid hard-coding of global values such as the name of the service. I should consider retiring this - I'm not sure it's necessary. Could just use constants? This file is source-controlled
2. Outside of the application in a place specified by the run-time spring.config.location system property. This file is NOT source-controlled as it contains deployment-specific properties, such as the server port, logging levels and so on; some of these are sensitive to leakage and should be protected (e.g. application keys and passwords). In a local development environment, spring.config.location is specified somewhere in the IDE, (In IntelliJ this is done in Edit Configuraitions). As an example, it could be set to ${HOME}/config/encity/company-service.properties. For non-IDE environments as script will have to be provided, which references a soft-coded location via an environment varible that is set externally.