I have updated a Spring Boot application from 1.4.x to 1.5.1 and the Spring Actuator endpoints return a different MIME type now:
For example, /health is now application/vnd.spring-boot.actuator.v1+json instead simply application/json.
How can I change this back?
The endpoints return a content type that honours what the client's request says it can accept. You will get an application/json response if the client send an Accept header that asks for it:
Accept: application/json
In response to the comment of https://stackoverflow.com/users/2952093/kap (my reputation is to low to create a comment): when using Firefox to check endpoints that return JSON I use the Add-on JSONView. In the settings there is an option to specify alternate JSON content types, just add application/vnd.spring-boot.actuator.v1+jsonand you'll see the returned JSON in pretty print inside your browser.
As you noticed the content type for actuators have changed in 1.5.x.
If you in put "application/json" in the "Accept:" header you should get the usual content-type.
But if you don't have any way of modifying the clients, this snippet returns health (without details) and original content-type (the 1.4.x way).
@RestController
@RequestMapping(value = "/health", produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
public class HealthController {
@Inject
HealthEndpoint healthEndpoint;
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ResponseEntity<Health > health() throws IOException {
Health health = healthEndpoint.health();
Health nonSensitiveHealthResult = Health.status(health.getStatus()).build();
if (health.getStatus().equals(Status.UP)) {
return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.OK).body(nonSensitiveHealthResult);
} else {
return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST).body(nonSensitiveHealthResult);
}
}
}
Configuration (move away existing health)
endpoints.health.path: internal/health
Based on the code in https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/2449 (which also works fine but completely removes the new type) I came up with
@Component
public class ActuatorCustomizer implements EndpointHandlerMappingCustomizer {
static class Fix extends HandlerInterceptorAdapter {
@Override
public boolean preHandle(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Object handler)
throws Exception {
Object attribute = request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.PRODUCIBLE_MEDIA_TYPES_ATTRIBUTE);
if (attribute instanceof LinkedHashSet) {
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
LinkedHashSet<MediaType> lhs = (LinkedHashSet<MediaType>) attribute;
if (lhs.remove(ActuatorMediaTypes.APPLICATION_ACTUATOR_V1_JSON)) {
lhs.add(ActuatorMediaTypes.APPLICATION_ACTUATOR_V1_JSON);
}
}
return true;
}
}
@Override
public void customize(EndpointHandlerMapping mapping) {
mapping.setInterceptors(new Object[] {new Fix()});
}
}
which puts the new vendor-mediatype last so that it will use application/json for all actuator endpoints when nothing is specified.
Tested with spring-boot 1.5.3
Since SpringBoot 2.0.x the suggested solution in implementing the EndpointHandlerMappingCustomizer doesn't work any longer.
The good news is, the solution is simpler now.
The Bean EndpointMediaTypes needs to be provided. It is provided by the SpringBoot class WebEndpointAutoConfiguration by default.
Providing your own could look like this:
@Configuration
public class ActuatorEndpointConfig {
private static final List<String> MEDIA_TYPES = Arrays
.asList("application/json", ActuatorMediaType.V2_JSON);
@Bean
public EndpointMediaTypes endpointMediaTypes() {
return new EndpointMediaTypes(MEDIA_TYPES, MEDIA_TYPES);
}
}
To support application/vnd.spring-boot.actuator.v1+json in Firefox's built in JSON viewer, you can install this addon: json-content-type-override. It will convert content types that contain "json" to "application/json".
Update: Firefox 58+ has built-in support for these mime types, and no addon is needed anymore. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1388335
