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HealthChecks in DropWizard 0.8.0-rc1

I am following the documentation to create a healthcheck for my dropwizard application for database connectivity. I wanted to know how does the healthScript get a Database class? What do I need to import in order to use teh Database class mentioned in the Documentation?

http://dropwizard.io/0.8.0-rc1/docs/manual/core.html#health-checks

Solution

  • This is just an example providing a general idea of what can be accomplished with healthchecks. There isn't a concrete Database class that you can import. The actual healthcheck would depend on your choice of DB connection: JDBI or Hibernate. Dropwizard also easily allows you to define your own DAO for whatever vendor / protocol you need. And if you read through that documentation you'll see that those database objects are configured just like everything else - with YAML.

    Note that you can upgrade to the 0.8.0 release instead of the release candidate.