Conditionally expose Spring web service operation

Question

We're using Spring web services in our application and have a requirement to make a new operation, intended for internal testing, available only in our dev and test environments. I know how to handle such a requirement in Axis (we have one such module, where we simply add or remove the operation from the "allowedMethods" parameter in our wsdd) but I have no idea how to accomplish this in Spring, and haven't had much luck searching online. What are our options?

Answer 1

Spring profiles will help you:

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-profiles.html

@Configuration
@Profile("dev")
public class ProductionConfiguration {

    // ...

}

You can use profiles on a Bean:

@Component
@Profile("dev")
public class DevDatasourceConfig

Or in the XML:

<beans profile="dev">
    <bean id="devDatasourceConfig"
      class="org.baeldung.profiles.DevDatasourceConfig" />
</beans>

You could also specify what profiles are in use by WebApplicationInitializer:

@Configuration
public class MyWebApplicationInitializer implements WebApplicationInitializer {

    @Override
    public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {
        servletContext.setInitParameter("spring.profiles.active", "dev");
    }
} 

or

@Autowired
private ConfigurableEnvironment env;
...
env.setActiveProfiles("dev");

or web.xml:

<context-param>
    <param-name>spring.profiles.active</param-name>
    <param-value>dev</param-value>
</context-param>

or JVM parameter:

-Dspring.profiles.active=dev

or environment variable:

export spring_profiles_active=dev