Using GDAL with SpringBoot in Ubuntu

To use GDAL with SpringBoot in Ubuntu:

1. Apt install gdal-bin, gdal-data, libgdal-java (optionally libgdal26, don't know whether it's necessary)
2. Set the Environment variables in Eclipse:
1. GDAL_DATA = /usr/share/gdal
2. LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /usr/lib/jni:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Reference: http://geoexamples.blogspot.com/2012/05/running-gdal-java.html

Spring Boot Application Properties List

The list of Spring Boot Application Common Properties:

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/common-application-properties.html

Inject git last commit id to SpringBoot project

1) Add git-commit-id-plugin in pom.xml

  <build>
  <plugins>
  <plugin>

      <groupId>pl.project13.maven</groupId>

      <artifactId>git-commit-id-plugin</artifactId>

      <executions>

          <execution>

              <goals>

                  <goal>revision</goal>

              </goals>

          </execution>

      </executions>

      <configuration>

          <dotGitDirectory>${project.basedir}/.git</dotGitDirectory>

          <includeOnlyProperties>

              <includeOnlyProperty>git.commit.id.abbrev</includeOnlyProperty>

          </includeOnlyProperties>

      </configuration>

  </plugin>
  ...
  </plugins>
  </build>

2) Get the value via Thymeleaf

   <head th:with="abbrev=${@environment.getProperty('git.commit.id.abbrev')}">

Using @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)

If you use @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class) in a JUnit test class and it just cannot run, do double check your JUnit version.

It requires JUnit 4.9 or above.