Spring boot - Rest Call client without embedded tomcat

I had this problem. All I wanted was to have a Client making REST requests. Unfortunately I had a dependency which was embedding Jetty, and Jetty was always started.

In order to disable Jetty all I needed to do was to add in applications.properties the following entry:

spring.main.web-application-type=none

That fixed it.

You seem to be on completely the wrong track here, starting from a web application template and then trying to turn off the web application aspect.

Far better to start from a regular commandline client template and go from there, as detailed in the relevant Spring Guide.

Basically the application reduces to

@SpringBootApplication
public class Application {

private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Application.class);

public static void main(String args[]) {
    SpringApplication.run(Application.class);
}

@Bean
public RestTemplate restTemplate(RestTemplateBuilder builder) {
    return builder.build();
}

@Bean
public CommandLineRunner run(RestTemplate restTemplate) throws Exception {
    return args -> {
        Quote quote = restTemplate.getForObject(
                "http://gturnquist-quoters.cfapps.io/api/random", Quote.class);
        log.info(quote.toString());
    };
}
}

And the pom to

    <dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>