Application Events and Listeners
In addition to the usual Spring Framework events, such as ContextRefreshedEvent
, a SpringApplication
sends some additional application events.
Some events are actually triggered before the If you want those listeners to be registered automatically, regardless of the way the application is created, you can add a org.springframework.context.ApplicationListener=com.example.project.MyListener |
Application events are sent in the following order, as your application runs:
-
An
ApplicationStartingEvent
is sent at the start of a run but before any processing, except for the registration of listeners and initializers. -
An
ApplicationEnvironmentPreparedEvent
is sent when theEnvironment
to be used in the context is known but before the context is created. -
An
ApplicationContextInitializedEvent
is sent when theApplicationContext
is prepared and ApplicationContextInitializers have been called but before any bean definitions are loaded. -
An
ApplicationPreparedEvent
is sent just before the refresh is started but after bean definitions have been loaded. -
An
ApplicationStartedEvent
is sent after the context has been refreshed but before any application and command-line runners have been called. -
An
AvailabilityChangeEvent
is sent right after withLivenessState.CORRECT
to indicate that the application is considered as live. -
An
ApplicationReadyEvent
is sent after any application and command-line runners have been called. -
An
AvailabilityChangeEvent
is sent right after withReadinessState.ACCEPTING_TRAFFIC
to indicate that the application is ready to service requests. -
An
ApplicationFailedEvent
is sent if there is an exception on startup.
The above list only includes SpringApplicationEvent
s that are tied to a SpringApplication
.
In addition to these, the following events are also published after ApplicationPreparedEvent
and before ApplicationStartedEvent
:
-
A
WebServerInitializedEvent
is sent after theWebServer
is ready.ServletWebServerInitializedEvent
andReactiveWebServerInitializedEvent
are the servlet and reactive variants respectively. -
A
ContextRefreshedEvent
is sent when anApplicationContext
is refreshed.
You often need not use application events, but it can be handy to know that they exist. Internally, Spring Boot uses events to handle a variety of tasks. |
Event listeners should not run potentially lengthy tasks as they execute in the same thread by default. Consider using application and command-line runners instead. |
Application events are sent by using Spring Framework’s event publishing mechanism.
Part of this mechanism ensures that an event published to the listeners in a child context is also published to the listeners in any ancestor contexts.
As a result of this, if your application uses a hierarchy of SpringApplication
instances, a listener may receive multiple instances of the same type of application event.
To allow your listener to distinguish between an event for its context and an event for a descendant context, it should request that its application context is injected and then compare the injected context with the context of the event.
The context can be injected by implementing ApplicationContextAware
or, if the listener is a bean, by using @Autowired
.