Common application properties Permalink to " Common application properties"

JHipster generates a Spring Boot application, and can be configured using the standard Spring Boot properties mechanism.

Those properties are configured at generation-time by JHipster, and often have different values in development and production modes: learn more about this in our Profiles documentation.

In a JHipster application, there are three kinds of properties:

  1. Spring Boot standard application properties
  2. JHipster application properties
  3. Application-specific properties

Spring Boot standard application properties Permalink to "Spring Boot standard application properties"

Like any Spring Boot application, JHipster allows you to configure any standard Spring Boot application property.

JHipster application properties Permalink to "JHipster application properties"

JHipster provides specific application properties, which come from the JHipster server-side library. Those properties are standard for all JHipster projects, but some of them only work depending on what you selected when you built your application: for example the jhipster.cache.hazelcast key only works if you selected Hazelcast as your 2nd-level Hibernate cache.

Those properties are configured using the io.github.jhipster.config.JHipsterProperties class.

Here is a documentation for those properties:

    jhipster:

        # Thread pool that will be used for asynchronous method calls in JHipster
        async:
            core-pool-size: 2 # Initial pool size
            max-pool-size: 50 # Maximum pool size
            queue-capacity: 10000 # Queue capacity of the pool

        # Specific configuration for JHipster gateways
        # See https://www.jhipster.tech/api-gateway/ for more information on JHipster gateways
        gateway:
            rate-limiting:
                enabled: false # Rate limiting is disabled by default
                limit: 100_000L # By default we allow 100,000 API calls
                duration-in-seconds: 3_600 # By default the rate limiting is reinitialized every hour
            authorized-microservices-endpoints: # Access Control Policy, if left empty for a route, all endpoints will be accessible
                app1: /api # recommended prod configuration, it allows the access to all API calls from the "app1" microservice

        # HTTP configuration
        http:
            cache: # Used by io.github.jhipster.web.filter.CachingHttpHeadersFilter
                timeToLiveInDays: 1461 # Static assets are cached for 4 years by default

        # Hibernate 2nd level cache, used by CacheConfiguration
        cache:
            hazelcast: # Hazelcast configuration
                time-to-live-seconds: 3600 # By default objects stay 1 hour in the cache
                backup-count: 1 # Number of objects backups
                # Configure the Hazelcast management center
                # Full reference is available at: http://docs.hazelcast.org/docs/management-center/3.9/manual/html/Deploying_and_Starting.html
                management-center:
                    enabled: false # Hazelcast management center is disabled by default
                    update-interval: 3 # Updates are sent to the Hazelcast management center every 3 seconds by default
                    # Default URL for Hazelcast management center when using JHipster's Docker Compose configuration
                    # See src/main/docker/hazelcast-management-center.yml
                    # Warning, the default port is 8180 as port 8080 is already used by JHipster
                    url: http://localhost:8180/mancenter
            ehcache: # Ehcache configuration
                time-to-live-seconds: 3600 # By default objects stay 1 hour in the cache
                max-entries: 100 # Number of objects in each cache entry
            caffeine: # Caffeine configuration
                time-to-live-seconds: 3600 # By default objects stay 1 hour in the cache
                max-entries: 100 # Number of objects in each cache entry    
            infinispan: #Infinispan configuration
                config-file: default-configs/default-jgroups-tcp.xml
                # local app cache
                local:
                    time-to-live-seconds: 60 # By default objects stay 1 hour (in minutes) in the cache
                    max-entries: 100 # Number of objects in each cache entry
                #distributed app cache
                distributed:
                    time-to-live-seconds: 60 # By default objects stay 1 hour (in minutes) in the cache
                    max-entries: 100 # Number of objects in each cache entry
                    instance-count: 1
                #replicated app cache
                replicated:
                    time-to-live-seconds: 60 # By default objects stay 1 hour (in minutes) in the cache
                    max-entries: 100 # Number of objects in each cache entry
            # Memcached configuration
            # Uses the Xmemcached library, see https://github.com/killme2008/xmemcached
            memcached:
                # Disabled by default in dev mode, as it does not work with Spring Boot devtools
                enabled: true
                servers: localhost:11211 # Comma or whitespace separated list of servers' addresses
                expiration: 300 # Expiration time (in seconds) for the cache
                use-binary-protocol: true # Binary protocol is recommended for performance (and security)
                authentication: # if authentication is required you can set it with these parameters. Disabled by default
                    enabled: false,
                    # username: unset by default
                    # password: unset by default
            redis: # Redis configuration
                expiration: 3600 # By default objects stay 1 hour (in seconds) in the cache
                server: redis://localhost:6379 # Server address
                cluster: false
                connectionPoolSize: 64,
                connectionMinimumIdleSize: 24,
                subscriptionConnectionPoolSize: 50,
                subscriptionConnectionMinimumIdleSize: 1

        # E-mail properties
        mail:
            enabled: false # If e-mail sending is enabled. The standard `spring.mail` keys will need to be configured
            from: jhipster@localhost # The default "from" address for e-mails
            base-url: http://127.0.0.1:8080 # URL to the application, used inside e-mails

        # Spring Security specific configuration
        security:
            remember-me: # JHipster secure implementation of the remember-me mechanism, for session-based authentication
                # security key (this key should be unique for your application, and kept secret)
                key: 0b32a651e6a65d5731e869dc136fb301b0a8c0e4
            authentication:
                jwt: # JHipster specific JWT implementation
                    # The secret token should be encoded using Base64 (you can type `echo 'secret-key'|base64` on your command line).
                    # If both properties are configured, the `secret` property has a higher priority than the `base64-secret` property.
                    secret: # JWT secret key in clear text (not recommended)
                    base64-secret:  # JWT secret key encoded in Base64 (recommended)
                    token-validity-in-seconds: 86400 # Token is valid 24 hours
                    token-validity-in-seconds-for-remember-me: 2592000 # Remember me token is valid 30 days

        # Swagger configuration
        swagger:
            default-include-pattern: /api/.*
            title: JHipster API
            description: JHipster API documentation
            version: 0.0.1
            terms-of-service-url:
            contact-name:
            contact-url:
            contact-email:
            license:
            license-url:
            host:
            protocols:

        # DropWizard Metrics configuration, used by MetricsConfiguration
        metrics:
            jmx: # Export metrics as JMX beans
                enabled: true # JMX is enabled by default
            # Send metrics to a Graphite server
            # Use the "graphite" Maven profile to have the Graphite dependencies
            graphite:
                enabled: false # Graphite is disabled by default
                host: localhost
                port: 2003
                prefix: jhipster
            # Send metrics to a Prometheus server
            prometheus:
                enabled: false # Prometheus is disabled by default
                endpoint: /prometheusMetrics
            logs: # Reports Dropwizard metrics in the logs
                enabled: false
                reportFrequency: 60 # frequency of reports in seconds

        # Logging configuration, used by LoggingConfiguration
        logging:
            logstash: # Forward logs to Logstash over a socket
                enabled: false # Logstash is disabled by default
                host: localhost # Logstash server URL
                port: 5000 # Logstash server port
                queue-size: 512 # Queue for buffering logs
            spectator-metrics: # Reports Netflix Spectator metrics in the logs
                enabled: false # Spectator is disabled by default

        # By default cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is enabled in "dev" mode for
        # monoliths and gateways.
        # It is disabled by default in "prod" mode for security reasons, and for microservices
        # (as you are supposed to use a gateway to access them).
        # This configures a standard org.springframework.web.cors.CorsConfiguration
        # Note that "exposed-headers" is mandatory for JWT-based security, which uses
        # the "Authorization" header, and which is not a default exposed header.
        cors:
            allowed-origins: "*"
            allowed-methods: "*"
            allowed-headers: "*"
            exposed-headers: "Authorization"
            allow-credentials: true
            max-age: 1800

        # Ribbon displayed on the top left-hand side of JHipster applications
        ribbon:
            # Comma-separated list of profiles that display a ribbon
            display-on-active-profiles: dev

Application-specific properties Permalink to "Application-specific properties"

Your generated application can also have its own Spring Boot properties. This is highly recommended, as it allows type-safe configuration of the application, as well as auto-completion and documentation within an IDE.

JHipster has generated a ApplicationProperties class in the config package, which is already preconfigured, and it is already documented at the bottom the application.yml, application-dev.yml and application-prod.yml files. All you need to do is code your own specific properties.