JAVA-8982: Fix circular dependency issue in spring-cloud-ribbon-client

spring-cloud/spring-cloud-ribbon-client/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/cloud/ribbon/client/RestTemplateConfiguration.java

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package com.baeldung.spring.cloud.ribbon.client;
+
+import org.springframework.cloud.client.loadbalancer.LoadBalanced;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
+
+@Configuration
+public class RestTemplateConfiguration {
+
+    @LoadBalanced
+    @Bean
+    RestTemplate getRestTemplate() {
+        return new RestTemplate();
+    }
+}

spring-cloud/spring-cloud-ribbon-client/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/cloud/ribbon/client/ServerLocationApp.java

@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@ package com.baeldung.spring.cloud.ribbon.client;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
-import org.springframework.cloud.client.loadbalancer.LoadBalanced;
 import org.springframework.cloud.netflix.ribbon.RibbonClient;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
 import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
@@ -15,19 +13,12 @@ import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
 @RibbonClient(name = "ping-a-server", configuration = RibbonConfiguration.class)
 public class ServerLocationApp {
 
-    @LoadBalanced
-    @Bean
-    RestTemplate getRestTemplate() {
-        return new RestTemplate();
-    }
-
     @Autowired
     RestTemplate restTemplate;
 
     @RequestMapping("/server-location")
     public String serverLocation() {
-        String servLoc = this.restTemplate.getForObject("http://ping-server/locaus", String.class);
-        return servLoc;
+        return this.restTemplate.getForObject("http://ping-server/locaus", String.class);
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {

spring-cloud/spring-cloud-ribbon-client/src/main/resources/application.yml

@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@ spring:
   application:
     name: spring-cloud-ribbon
 
-  main:
-    allow-circular-references: true
-
 server:
   port: 8888
 

spring-cloud/spring-cloud-ribbon-client/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/cloud/ribbon/client/ServerLocationAppIntegrationTest.java

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package com.baeldung.spring.cloud.ribbon.client;
 
-import static org.assertj.core.api.BDDAssertions.then;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 import org.junit.After;
@@ -13,7 +12,6 @@ import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
 import org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplate;
 import org.springframework.boot.web.server.LocalServerPort;
 import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
-import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
 import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
 import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;
 
@@ -43,7 +41,7 @@ public class ServerLocationAppIntegrationTest {
     private TestRestTemplate testRestTemplate;
 
     @Test
-    public void loadBalancingServersTest() throws InterruptedException {
+    public void loadBalancingServersTest() {
         ResponseEntity<String> response = this.testRestTemplate.getForEntity("http://localhost:" + this.port + "/server-location", String.class);
         assertEquals(response.getBody(), "Australia");
     }