Fork me on GitHub

Dropwizard Configuration Reference

Servers

server:
  type: default
  maxThreads: 1024

All

Name Default Description
type default
  • default
  • simple
maxThreads 1024 The maximum number of threads to use for requests.
minThreads 8 The minimum number of threads to use for requests.
maxQueuedRequests 1024 The maximum number of requests to queue before blocking the acceptors.
idleThreadTimeout 1 minute The amount of time a worker thread can be idle before being stopped.
nofileSoftLimit (none) The number of open file descriptors before a soft error is issued. Requires Jetty’s libsetuid.so on java.library.path.
nofileHardLimit (none) The number of open file descriptors before a hard error is issued. Requires Jetty’s libsetuid.so on java.library.path.
gid (none) The group ID to switch to once the connectors have started. Requires Jetty’s libsetuid.so on java.library.path.
uid (none) The user ID to switch to once the connectors have started. Requires Jetty’s libsetuid.so on java.library.path.
user (none) The username to switch to once the connectors have started. Requires Jetty’s libsetuid.so on java.library.path.
group (none) The group to switch to once the connectors have started. Requires Jetty’s libsetuid.so on java.library.path.
umask (none) The umask to switch to once the connectors have started. Requires Jetty’s libsetuid.so on java.library.path.
startsAsRoot (none) Whether or not the Dropwizard application is started as a root user. Requires Jetty’s libsetuid.so on java.library.path.
shutdownGracePeriod 30 seconds The maximum time to wait for Jetty, and all Managed instances, to cleanly shutdown before forcibly terminating them.
allowedMethods GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, PATCH The set of allowed HTTP methods. Others will be rejected with a 405 Method Not Allowed response.
rootPath /*
The URL pattern relative to applicationContextPath from which

the JAX-RS resources will be served.

registerDefaultExceptionMappers true Whether or not the default Jersey ExceptionMappers should be registered. Set this to false if you want to register your own.

GZip

server:
  gzip:
    bufferSize: 8KiB
Name Default Description
enabled true If true, all requests with gzip or deflate in the Accept-Encoding header will have their response entities compressed and requests with gzip or deflate in the Content-Encoding header will have their request entities decompressed.
minimumEntitySize 256 bytes All response entities under this size are not compressed.
bufferSize 8KiB The size of the buffer to use when compressing.
excludedUserAgents [] The set of user agents to exclude from compression.
excludedUserAgentPatterns [] The set of user agent patterns to exclude from compression.
compressedMimeTypes Jetty’s default The list of mime types to compress. The default is all types apart the commonly known image, video, audio and compressed types.
includedMethods Jetty’s default The list list of HTTP methods to compress. The default is to compress only GET responses.
deflateCompressionLevel -1 The compression level used for ZLIB deflation(compression).
gzipCompatibleDeflation true If true, then ZLIB deflation(compression) will be performed in the GZIP-compatible mode.
gzipCompatibleInflation true If true, then ZLIB inflation(decompression) will be performed in the GZIP-compatible mode.
vary Accept-Encoding Value of the Vary header sent with responses that could be compressed.

Request Log

server:
  requestLog:
    timeZone: UTC
Name Default Description
timeZone UTC The time zone to which request timestamps will be converted.
appenders console appender The set of AppenderFactory appenders to which requests will be logged. TODO See logging/appender refs for more info

Simple

Extends the attributes that are available to all servers

server:
  type: simple
  applicationContextPath: /application
  adminContextPath: /admin
  connector:
    type: http
    port: 8080
Name Default Description
connector http connector HttpConnectorFactory HTTP connector listening on port 8080. The ConnectorFactory connector which will handle both application and admin requests. TODO link to connector below.
applicationContextPath /application The context path of the application servlets, including Jersey.
adminContextPath /admin The context path of the admin servlets, including metrics and tasks.

Default

Extends the attributes that are available to all servers

server:
  adminMinThreads: 1
  adminMaxThreads: 64
  adminContextPath: /
  applicationContextPath: /
  applicationConnectors:
    - type: http
      port: 8080
    - type: https
      port: 8443
      keyStorePath: example.keystore
      keyStorePassword: example
      validateCerts: false
  adminConnectors:
    - type: http
      port: 8081
    - type: https
      port: 8444
      keyStorePath: example.keystore
      keyStorePassword: example
      validateCerts: false
Name Default Description
applicationConnectors An HTTP connector listening on port 8080. A set of connectors which will handle application requests.
adminConnectors An HTTP connector listening on port 8081. An HTTP connector listening on port 8081. A set of connectors which will handle admin requests.
adminMinThreads 1 The minimum number of threads to use for admin requests.
adminMaxThreads 64 The maximum number of threads to use for admin requests.
adminContextPath / The context path of the admin servlets, including metrics and tasks.
applicationContextPath / The context path of the application servlets, including Jersey.

Connectors

HTTP

# Extending from the default server configuration
server:
  applicationConnectors:
    - type: http
      port: 8080
      bindHost: 127.0.0.1 # only bind to loopback
      headerCacheSize: 512 bytes
      outputBufferSize: 32KiB
      maxRequestHeaderSize: 8KiB
      maxResponseHeaderSize: 8KiB
      inputBufferSize: 8KiB
      idleTimeout: 30 seconds
      minBufferPoolSize: 64 bytes
      bufferPoolIncrement: 1KiB
      maxBufferPoolSize: 64KiB
      acceptorThreads: 1
      selectorThreads: 2
      acceptQueueSize: 1024
      reuseAddress: true
      soLingerTime: 345s
      useServerHeader: false
      useDateHeader: true
      useForwardedHeaders: true
Name Default Description
port 8080 The TCP/IP port on which to listen for incoming connections.
bindHost (none) The hostname to bind to.
headerCacheSize 512 bytes The size of the header field cache.
outputBufferSize 32KiB The size of the buffer into which response content is aggregated before being sent to the client. A larger buffer can improve performance by allowing a content producer to run without blocking, however larger buffers consume more memory and may induce some latency before a client starts processing the content.
maxRequestHeaderSize 8KiB The maximum size of a request header. Larger headers will allow for more and/or larger cookies plus larger form content encoded in a URL. However, larger headers consume more memory and can make a server more vulnerable to denial of service attacks.
maxResponseHeaderSize 8KiB The maximum size of a response header. Larger headers will allow for more and/or larger cookies and longer HTTP headers (eg for redirection). However, larger headers will also consume more memory.
inputBufferSize 8KiB The size of the per-connection input buffer.
idleTimeout 30 seconds The maximum idle time for a connection, which roughly translates to the java.net.Socket#setSoTimeout(int) call, although with NIO implementations other mechanisms may be used to implement the timeout. The max idle time is applied when waiting for a new message to be received on a connection or when waiting for a new message to be sent on a connection. This value is interpreted as the maximum time between some progress being made on the connection. So if a single byte is read or written, then the timeout is reset.
minBufferPoolSize 64 bytes The minimum size of the buffer pool.
bufferPoolIncrement 1KiB The increment by which the buffer pool should be increased.
maxBufferPoolSize 64KiB The maximum size of the buffer pool.
acceptorThreads # of CPUs/2 The number of worker threads dedicated to accepting connections.
selectorThreads # of CPUs The number of worker threads dedicated to sending and receiving data.
acceptQueueSize (OS default) The size of the TCP/IP accept queue for the listening socket.
reuseAddress true Whether or not SO_REUSEADDR is enabled on the listening socket.
soLingerTime (disabled) Enable/disable SO_LINGER with the specified linger time.
useServerHeader false Whether or not to add the Server header to each response.
useDateHeader true Whether or not to add the Date header to each response.
useForwardedHeaders true Whether or not to look at X-Forwarded-* headers added by proxies. See ForwardedRequestCustomizer for details.

HTTPS

Extends the attributes that are available to the HTTP connector

# Extending from the default server configuration
server:
  applicationConnectors:
    - type: https
      port: 8443
      ....
      keyStorePath: /path/to/file
      keyStorePassword: changeit
      keyStoreType: JKS
      keyStoreProvider:
      trustStorePath: /path/to/file
      trustStorePassword: changeit
      trustStoreType: JKS
      trustStoreProvider:
      keyManagerPassword: changeit
      needClientAuth: false
      wantClientAuth:
      certAlias: <alias>
      crlPath: /path/to/file
      enableCRLDP: false
      enableOCSP: false
      maxCertPathLength: (unlimited)
      ocspResponderUrl: (none)
      jceProvider: (none)
      validateCerts: true
      validatePeers: true
      supportedProtocols: SSLv3
      excludedProtocols: (none)
      supportedCipherSuites: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
      excludedCipherSuites: (none)
      allowRenegotiation: true
      endpointIdentificationAlgorithm: (none)
Name Default Description
keyStorePath REQUIRED The path to the Java key store which contains the host certificate and private key.
keyStorePassword REQUIRED The password used to access the key store.
keyStoreType JKS The type of key store (usually JKS, PKCS12, JCEKS``, Windows-MY}, or Windows-ROOT).
keyStoreProvider (none) The JCE provider to use to access the key store.
trustStorePath (none) The path to the Java key store which contains the CA certificates used to establish trust.
trustStorePassword (none) The password used to access the trust store.
trustStoreType JKS The type of trust store (usually JKS, PKCS12, JCEKS, Windows-MY, or Windows-ROOT).
trustStoreProvider (none) The JCE provider to use to access the trust store.
keyManagerPassword (none) The password, if any, for the key manager.
needClientAuth (none) Whether or not client authentication is required.
wantClientAuth (none) Whether or not client authentication is requested.
certAlias (none) The alias of the certificate to use.
crlPath (none) The path to the file which contains the Certificate Revocation List.
enableCRLDP false Whether or not CRL Distribution Points (CRLDP) support is enabled.
enableOCSP false Whether or not On-Line Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) support is enabled.
maxCertPathLength (unlimited) The maximum certification path length.
ocspResponderUrl (none) The location of the OCSP responder.
jceProvider (none) The name of the JCE provider to use for cryptographic support.
validateCerts true Whether or not to validate TLS certificates before starting. If enabled, Dropwizard will refuse to start with expired or otherwise invalid certificates.
validatePeers true Whether or not to validate TLS peer certificates.
supportedProtocols (none) A list of protocols (e.g., SSLv3, TLSv1) which are supported. All other protocols will be refused.
excludedProtocols (none) A list of protocols (e.g., SSLv3, TLSv1) which are excluded. These protocols will be refused.
supportedCipherSuites (none) A list of cipher suites (e.g., TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256) which are supported. All other cipher suites will be refused
excludedCipherSuites (none) A list of cipher suites (e.g., TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256) which are excluded. These cipher suites will be refused and exclusion takes higher precedence than inclusion, such that if a cipher suite is listed in supportedCipherSuites and excludedCipherSuites, the cipher suite will be excluded. To verify that the proper cipher suites are being whitelisted and blacklisted, it is recommended to use the tool sslyze.
allowRenegotiation true Whether or not TLS renegotiation is allowed.
endpointIdentificationAlgorithm (none) Which endpoint identification algorithm, if any, to use during the TLS handshake.

SPDY

Extends the attributes that are available to the HTTPS connector

For this connector to work with ALPN protocol you need to provide alpn-boot library to JVM’s bootpath. The correct library version depends on the JVM version. Consult Jetty ALPN guide for the reference.

server:
  applicationConnectors:
    - type: spdy3
      port: 8445
      keyStorePath: example.keystore
      keyStorePassword: example
      validateCerts: false
Name Default Description
pushStrategy (none) The push strategy to use for server-initiated SPDY pushes.

Logging

logging:
  level: INFO
  loggers:
    "io.dropwizard": INFO
    "org.hibernate.SQL":
      level: DEBUG
      additive: false
      appenders:
        - type: file
          currentLogFilename: /var/log/myapplication-sql.log
          archivedLogFilenamePattern: /var/log/myapplication-sql-%d.log.gz
          archivedFileCount: 5
  appenders:
    - type: console
Name Default Description
level Level.INFO Logback logging level.
additive true Logback additive setting.
loggers (none) Individual logger configuration (both forms are acceptable).
appenders (none) One of console, file or syslog.

Console

logging:
  level: INFO
  appenders:
    - type: console
      threshold: ALL
      timeZone: UTC
      target: stdout
      logFormat: # TODO
Name Default Description
type REQUIRED The appender type. Must be console.
threshold ALL The lowest level of events to print to the console.
timeZone UTC The time zone to which event timestamps will be converted.
target stdout The name of the standard stream to which events will be written. Can be stdout or stderr.
logFormat default The Logback pattern with which events will be formatted. See the Logback documentation for details.

File

logging:
  level: INFO
  appenders:
    - type: file
      currentLogFilename: /var/log/myapplication.log
      threshold: ALL
      archive: true
      archivedLogFilenamePattern: /var/log/myapplication-%d.log
      archivedFileCount: 5
      timeZone: UTC
      logFormat: # TODO
Name Default Description
type REQUIRED The appender type. Must be file.
currentLogFilename REQUIRED The filename where current events are logged.
threshold ALL The lowest level of events to write to the file.
archive true Whether or not to archive old events in separate files.
archivedLogFilenamePattern (none) Required if archive is true. The filename pattern for archived files. %d is replaced with the date in yyyy-MM-dd form, and the fact that it ends with .gz indicates the file will be gzipped as it’s archived. Likewise, filename patterns which end in .zip will be filled as they are archived.
archivedFileCount 5 The number of archived files to keep. Must be between 1 and 50.
timeZone UTC The time zone to which event timestamps will be converted.
logFormat default The Logback pattern with which events will be formatted. See the Logback documentation for details.

Syslog

logging:
  level: INFO
  appenders:
    - type: syslog
      host: localhost
      port: 514
      facility: local0
      threshold: ALL
      stackTracePrefix: \t
      logFormat: # TODO
Name Default Description
host localhost The hostname of the syslog server.
port 514 The port on which the syslog server is listening.
facility local0 The syslog facility to use. Can be either auth, authpriv, daemon, cron, ftp, lpr, kern, mail, news, syslog, user, uucp, local0, local1, local2, local3, local4, local5, local6, or local7.
threshold ALL The lowest level of events to write to the file.
logFormat default The Logback pattern with which events will be formatted. See the Logback documentation for details.
stackTracePrefix t The prefix to use when writing stack trace lines (these are sent to the syslog server separately from the main message)

Metrics

The metrics configuration has two fields; frequency and reporters.

metrics:
  frequency: 1 minute
  reporters:
    - type: <type>
Name Default Description
frequency 1 minute The frequency to report metrics. Overridable per-reporter.
reporters (none) A list of reporters to report metrics.

All Reporters

The following options are available for all metrics reporters.

metrics:
  reporters:
    - type: <type>
      durationUnit: milliseconds
      rateUnit: seconds
      excludes: (none)
      includes: (all)
      useRegexFilters: false
      frequency: 1 minute
Name Default Description
durationUnit milliseconds The unit to report durations as. Overrides per-metric duration units.
rateUnit seconds The unit to report rates as. Overrides per-metric rate units.
excludes (none) Metrics to exclude from reports, by name. When defined, matching metrics will not be reported.
includes (all) Metrics to include in reports, by name. When defined, only these metrics will be reported.
useRegexFilters false Indicates whether the values of the ‘includes’ and ‘excludes’ fields should be treated as regular expressions or not.
frequency (none) The frequency to report metrics. Overrides the default.

The inclusion and exclusion rules are defined as:

  • If includes is empty, then all metrics are included;
  • If includes is not empty, only metrics from this list are included;
  • If excludes is empty, no metrics are excluded;
  • If excludes is not empty, then exclusion rules take precedence over inclusion rules. Thus if a name matches

the exclusion rules it will not be included in reports even if it also matches the inclusion rules.

Formatted Reporters

These options are available only to “formatted” reporters and extend the options available to all reporters

metrics:
  reporters:
    - type: <type>
      locale: <system default>
Name Default Description
locale System default The Locale for formatting numbers, dates and times.

Console Reporter

Reports metrics periodically to the console.

Extends the attributes that are available to formatted reporters

metrics:
  reporters:
    - type: console
      timeZone: UTC
      output: stdout
Name Default Description
timeZone UTC The timezone to display dates/times for.
output stdout The stream to write to. One of stdout or stderr.

CSV Reporter

Reports metrics periodically to a CSV file.

Extends the attributes that are available to formatted reporters

metrics:
  reporters:
    - type: csv
      file: /path/to/file
Name Default Description
file No default The CSV file to write metrics to.

Ganglia Reporter

Reports metrics periodically to Ganglia.

Extends the attributes that are available to all reporters

Note

You will need to add dropwizard-metrics-ganglia to your POM.

metrics:
  reporters:
    - type: ganglia
      host: localhost
      port: 8649
      mode: unicast
      ttl: 1
      uuid: (none)
      spoof: localhost:8649
      tmax: 60
      dmax: 0
Name Default Description
host localhost The hostname (or group) of the Ganglia server(s) to report to.
port 8649 The port of the Ganglia server(s) to report to.
mode unicast The UDP addressing mode to announce the metrics with. One of unicast or multicast.
ttl 1 The time-to-live of the UDP packets for the announced metrics.
uuid (none) The UUID to tag announced metrics with.
spoof (none) The hostname and port to use instead of this nodes for the announced metrics. In the format hostname:port.
tmax 60 The tmax value to announce metrics with.
dmax 0 The dmax value to announce metrics with.

Graphite Reporter

Reports metrics periodically to Graphite.

Extends the attributes that are available to all reporters

Note

You will need to add dropwizard-metrics-graphite to your POM.

metrics:
  reporters:
    - type: graphite
      host: localhost
      port: 8080
      prefix: <prefix>
Name Default Description
host localhost The hostname of the Graphite server to report to.
port 8080 The port of the Graphite server to report to.
prefix (none) The prefix for Metric key names to report to Graphite.

SLF4J

Reports metrics periodically by logging via SLF4J.

Extends the attributes that are available to all reporters

See BaseReporterFactory and BaseFormattedReporterFactory for more options.

metrics:
  reporters:
    - type: log
      logger: metrics
      markerName: <marker name>
Name Default Description
logger metrics The name of the logger to write metrics to.
markerName (none) The name of the marker to mark logged metrics with.

Clients

HttpClient

See HttpClientConfiguration for more options.

httpClient:
  timeout: 500ms
  connectionTimeout: 500ms
  timeToLive: 1h
  cookiesEnabled: false
  maxConnections: 1024
  maxConnectionsPerRoute: 1024
  keepAlive: 0ms
  retries: 0
  userAgent: <application name> (<client name>)
Name Default Description
timeout 500 milliseconds The maximum idle time for a connection, once established.
connectionTimeout 500 milliseconds The maximum time to wait for a connection to open.
connectionRequestTimeout 500 milliseconds The maximum time to wait for a connection to be returned from the connection pool.
timeToLive 1 hour The maximum time a pooled connection can stay idle (not leased to any thread) before it is shut down.
cookiesEnabled false Whether or not to enable cookies.
maxConnections 1024 The maximum number of concurrent open connections.
maxConnectionsPerRoute 1024 The maximum number of concurrent open connections per route.
keepAlive 0 milliseconds The maximum time a connection will be kept alive before it is reconnected. If set to 0, connections will be immediately closed after every request/response.
retries 0 The number of times to retry failed requests. Requests are only retried if they throw an exception other than InterruptedIOException, UnknownHostException, ConnectException, or SSLException.
userAgent applicationName (clientName) The User-Agent to send with requests.
validateAfterInactivityPeriod 0 milliseconds The maximum time before a persistent connection is checked to remain active. If set to 0, no inactivity check will be performed.

Proxy

httpClient:
  proxy:
    host: 192.168.52.11
    port: 8080
    scheme : http
    auth:
      username: secret
      password: stuff
    nonProxyHosts:
      - localhost
      - '192.168.52.*'
      - '*.example.com'
Name Default Description
host REQUIRED The proxy server host name or ip address.
port (scheme default) The proxy server port. If the port is not set then the scheme default port is used.
scheme http The proxy server URI scheme. HTTP and HTTPS schemas are permitted. By default HTTP scheme is used.
auth (none) The proxy server BASIC authentication credentials. If they are not set then no credentials will be passed to the server.
username REQUIRED The username used to connect to the server.
password REQUIRED The password used to connect to the server.
nonProxyHosts (none) List of patterns of hosts that should be reached without proxy. The patterns may contain symbol ‘*’ as a wildcard. If a host matches one of the patterns it will be reached through a direct connection.

TLS

httpClient:
  tls:
    protocol: TLSv1.2
    verifyHostname: true
    keyStorePath: /path/to/file
    keyStorePassword: changeit
    keyStoreType: JKS
    trustStorePath: /path/to/file
    trustStorePassword: changeit
    trustStoreType: JKS
    trustSelfSignedCertificates: false
    supportedProtocols: TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2
    supportedCipherSuites: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
Name Default Description
protocol TLSv1.2 The default protocol the client will attempt to use during the SSL Handshake. See here for more information.
verifyHostname true Whether to verify the hostname of the server against the hostname presented in the server certificate.
keyStorePath (none) The path to the Java key store which contains the client certificate and private key.
keyStorePassword (none) The password used to access the key store.
keyStoreType JKS The type of key store (usually JKS, PKCS12, JCEKS, Windows-MY, or Windows-ROOT).
trustStorePath (none) The path to the Java key store which contains the CA certificates used to establish trust.
trustStorePassword (none) The password used to access the trust store.
trustStoreType JKS The type of trust store (usually JKS, PKCS12, JCEKS, Windows-MY, or Windows-ROOT).
trustSelfSignedCertificates false Whether the client will trust certificates of servers that are self-signed.
supportedProtocols (none) A list of protocols (e.g., SSLv3, TLSv1) which are supported. All other protocols will be refused.
supportedCipherSuites (none) A list of cipher suites (e.g., TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256) which are supported. All other cipher suites will be refused.

JerseyClient

Extends the attributes that are available to http clients

See JerseyClientConfiguration and HttpClientConfiguration for more options.

jerseyClient:
  minThreads: 1
  maxThreads: 128
  workQueueSize: 8
  gzipEnabled: true
  gzipEnabledForRequests: true
  chunkedEncodingEnabled: true
Name Default Description
minThreads 1 The minimum number of threads in the pool used for asynchronous requests.
maxThreads 128 The maximum number of threads in the pool used for asynchronous requests.
workQueueSize 8 The size of the work queue of the pool used for asynchronous requests. Additional threads will be spawn only if the queue is reached its maximum size.
gzipEnabled true Adds an Accept-Encoding: gzip header to all requests, and enables automatic gzip decoding of responses.
gzipEnabledForRequests true Adds a Content-Encoding: gzip header to all requests, and enables automatic gzip encoding of requests.
chunkedEncodingEnabled true Enables the use of chunked encoding for requests.

Database

database:
  driverClass : org.postgresql.Driver
  url: 'jdbc:postgresql://db.example.com/db-prod'
  user: pg-user
  password: iAMs00perSecrEET
Name Default Description
driverClass REQUIRED The full name of the JDBC driver class.
url REQUIRED The URL of the server.
user none The username used to connect to the server.
password none The password used to connect to the server.
removeAbandoned false Remove abandoned connections if they exceed removeAbandonedTimeout. If set to true a connection is considered abandoned and eligible for removal if it has been in use longer than the removeAbandonedTimeout and the condition for abandonWhenPercentageFull is met.
removeAbandonedTimeout 60 seconds The time before a database connection can be considered abandoned.
abandonWhenPercentageFull 0 Connections that have been abandoned (timed out) won’t get closed and reported up unless the number of connections in use are above the percentage defined by abandonWhenPercentageFull. The value should be between 0-100.
alternateUsernamesAllowed false Set to true if the call getConnection(username,password) is allowed. This is used for when the pool is used by an application accessing multiple schemas. There is a performance impact turning this option on, even when not used.
commitOnReturn false Set to true if you want the connection pool to commit any pending transaction when a connection is returned.
autoCommitByDefault JDBC driver’s default The default auto-commit state of the connections.
readOnlyByDefault JDBC driver’s default The default read-only state of the connections.
properties none Any additional JDBC driver parameters.
defaultCatalog none The default catalog to use for the connections.
defaultTransactionIsolation JDBC driver’s default The default transaction isolation to use for the connections. Can be one of none, default, read-uncommitted, read-committed, repeatable-read, or serializable.
useFairQueue true If true, calls to getConnection are handled in a FIFO manner.
initialSize 10 The initial size of the connection pool.
minSize 10 The minimum size of the connection pool.
maxSize 100 The maximum size of the connection pool.
initializationQuery none A custom query to be run when a connection is first created.
logAbandonedConnections false If true, logs stack traces of abandoned connections.
logValidationErrors false If true, logs errors when connections fail validation.
maxConnectionAge none If set, connections which have been open for longer than maxConnectionAge are closed when returned.
maxWaitForConnection 30 seconds If a request for a connection is blocked for longer than this period, an exception will be thrown.
minIdleTime 1 minute The minimum amount of time an connection must sit idle in the pool before it is eligible for eviction.
validationQuery SELECT 1 The SQL query that will be used to validate connections from this pool before returning them to the caller or pool. If specified, this query does not have to return any data, it just can’t throw a SQLException.
validationQueryTimeout none The timeout before a connection validation queries fail.
checkConnectionWhileIdle true Set to true if query validation should take place while the connection is idle.
checkConnectionOnBorrow false Whether or not connections will be validated before being borrowed from the pool. If the connection fails to validate, it will be dropped from the pool, and another will be borrowed.
checkConnectionOnConnect false Whether or not connections will be validated before being added to the pool. If the connection fails to validate, it won’t be added to the pool.
checkConnectionOnReturn false Whether or not connections will be validated after being returned to the pool. If the connection fails to validate, it will be dropped from the pool.
autoCommentsEnabled true Whether or not ORMs should automatically add comments.
evictionInterval 5 seconds The amount of time to sleep between runs of the idle connection validation, abandoned cleaner and idle pool resizing.
validationInterval 30 seconds To avoid excess validation, only run validation once every interval.
validatorClassName none Name of a class of a custom validator implementation, which will be used for validating connections.

Polymorphic configuration

The dropwizard-configuration module provides you with a polymorphic configuration mechanism, meaning that a particular section of your configuration file can be implemented using one or more configuration classes.

To use this capability for your own configuration classes, create a top-level configuration interface or class that implements Discoverable and add the name of that class to META-INF/services/io.dropwizard.jackson.Discoverable. Make sure to use Jackson polymorphic deserialization annotations appropriately.

@JsonTypeInfo(use = Id.NAME, include = As.PROPERTY, property = "type")
interface WidgetFactory extends Discoverable {
    Widget createWidget();
}

Then create subtypes of the top-level type corresponding to each alternative, and add their names to META-INF/services/WidgetFactory.

@JsonTypeName("hammer")
public class HammerFactory implements WidgetFactory {
    @JsonProperty
    private int weight = 10;

    @Override
    public Hammer createWidget() {
        return new Hammer(weight);
    }
}

@JsonTypeName("chisel")
public class ChiselFactory implements WidgetFactory {
    @JsonProperty
    private float radius = 1;

    @Override
    public Chisel createWidget() {
        return new Chisel(radius);
    }
}

Now you can use WidgetFactory objects in your application’s configuration.

public class MyConfiguration extends Configuration {
    @JsonProperty
    @NotNull
    @Valid
    private List<WidgetFactory> widgets;
}
widgets:
  - type: hammer
    weight: 20
  - type: chisel
    radius: 0.4