Common application properties

Appendix A: Common application properties

Various properties can be specified inside your application.properties file, inside your application.yml file, or as command line switches. This appendix provides a list of common Spring Cloud OpenFeign properties and references to the underlying classes that consume them.

Property contributions can come from additional jar files on your classpath, so you should not consider this an exhaustive list. Also, you can define your own properties.

Name	Default	Description
feign.client.config
feign.client.default-config	default
feign.client.default-to-properties	true
feign.compression.request.enabled	false	Enables the request sent by Feign to be compressed.
feign.compression.request.mime-types	[text/xml, application/xml, application/json]	The list of supported mime types.
feign.compression.request.min-request-size	2048	The minimum threshold content size.
feign.compression.response.enabled	false	Enables the response from Feign to be compressed.
feign.compression.response.useGzipDecoder	false	Enables the default gzip decoder to be used.
feign.httpclient.connection-timeout	2000
feign.httpclient.connection-timer-repeat	3000
feign.httpclient.disable-ssl-validation	false
feign.httpclient.enabled	true	Enables the use of the Apache HTTP Client by Feign.
feign.httpclient.follow-redirects	true
feign.httpclient.max-connections	200
feign.httpclient.max-connections-per-route	50
feign.httpclient.time-to-live	900
feign.httpclient.time-to-live-unit
feign.hystrix.enabled	false	If true, an OpenFeign client will be wrapped with a Hystrix circuit breaker.
feign.okhttp.enabled	false	Enables the use of the OK HTTP Client by Feign.

Name

Default

Description

feign.client.config

feign.client.default-config

default

feign.client.default-to-properties

true

feign.compression.request.enabled

false

Enables the request sent by Feign to be compressed.

feign.compression.request.mime-types

[text/xml, application/xml, application/json]

The list of supported mime types.

feign.compression.request.min-request-size

2048

The minimum threshold content size.

feign.compression.response.enabled

false

Enables the response from Feign to be compressed.

feign.compression.response.useGzipDecoder

false

Enables the default gzip decoder to be used.

feign.httpclient.connection-timeout

2000

feign.httpclient.connection-timer-repeat

3000

feign.httpclient.disable-ssl-validation

false

feign.httpclient.enabled

true

Enables the use of the Apache HTTP Client by Feign.

feign.httpclient.follow-redirects

true

feign.httpclient.max-connections

200

feign.httpclient.max-connections-per-route

feign.httpclient.time-to-live

900

feign.httpclient.time-to-live-unit

feign.hystrix.enabled

false

If true, an OpenFeign client will be wrapped with a Hystrix circuit breaker.

feign.okhttp.enabled

false

Enables the use of the OK HTTP Client by Feign.