Example of using feign with eureka
Assumes eureka (from spring-cloud-samples) is running on http://localhost:8761
mvnw package
run java -jar server/target/feign-eureka-hello-server-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
verify it is functioning at http://localhost:7111
You should see Hello World: HelloServer:myhostname:7111
run java -jar client/target/feign-eureka-hello-client-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
verify it is functioning at http://localhost:7211
You should see Hello World: HelloServer:myhostname:7111
You may see an error while the eureka/ribbon caches warm up similar to the following:
Whitelabel Error Page
This application has no explicit mapping for /error, so you are seeing this as a fallback.
Wed Jan 07 13:13:39 MST 2015
There was an unexpected error (type=Internal Server Error, status=500).
com.netflix.client.ClientException: Load balancer does not have available server for client: HelloServer
It should go away shortly.
run java -jar server/target/feign-eureka-hello-server-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar --server.port=7112
Go back to http://localhost:7211 and you should see both ports 7111
and 7112
in the output after a minute or two as you keep refreshing.