Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Java-based configuration

If we want to override Spring Boot's default configuration or if we want to add our own configuration, we can simply annotate a class with @Configuration and it will be picked up by the component scanning mechanism we described previously.

If we, for example, want to set up a filter in the processing of HTTP requests (handled by Spring WebFlux, which is described as follows) that writes a log message at the beginning and at the end of the processing of the request, we can configure a log-filter, as follows:

@Configurationpublic class SubscriberApplication {  @Bean  public Filter logFilter() {    CommonsRequestLoggingFilter filter = new         CommonsRequestLoggingFilter();    filter.setIncludeQueryString(true); filter.setIncludePayload( ...