how to give mongodb socketkeepalive in spring boot application? - mongodb

Question

In spring boot if we want to connect to mongodb, we can create a configuration file for mongodb or writing datasource in application.properties
I am following the second way
For me, I am gettint this error
"Timeout while receiving message; nested exception is com.mongodb.MongoSocketReadTimeoutException: Timeout while receiving message
.
spring.data.mongodb.uri = mongodb://mongodb0.example.com:27017/admin
I am gettint this error If I am not using my app for 6/7 hours and after that If I try to hit any controller to retrieve data from Mongodb. After 1/2 try I am able to get
Question - Is it the normal behavior of mongodb?
So, in my case it is closing the socket after some particular hours
I read some blogs where it was written you can give socket-keep-alive, so the connection pool will not close
In spring boot mongodb connection, we can pass options in uri like
spring.data.mongodb.uri = mongodb://mongodb0.example.com:27017/admin/?replicaSet=test&connectTimeoutMS=300000
So, I want to give socket-keep-alive options for spring.data.mongodb.uri like replicaset here.
I searched the official site, but can't able to find any

Answer 1

You can achieve this by providing a MongoClientOptions bean. Spring Data's MongoAutoConfiguration will pick this MongoClientOptions bean up and use it further on:
#Bean
public MongoClientOptions mongoClientOptions() {
return MongoClientOptions.builder()
.socketKeepAlive(true)
.build();
}
Also note that the socket-keep-alive option is deprecated (and defaulted to true) since mongo-driver version 3.5 (used by spring-data since version 2.0.0 of spring-data-mongodb)

Answer 2

You can achieve to pass this option using MongoClientOptionsFactoryBean.
public MongoClientOptions mongoClientOptions() {
try {
final MongoClientOptionsFactoryBean bean = new MongoClientOptionsFactoryBean();
bean.setSocketKeepAlive(true);
bean.afterPropertiesSet();
return bean.getObject();
} catch (final Exception e) {
throw new BeanCreationException(e.getMessage(), e);
}
}
Here an example of this configuration by extending AbstractMongoConfiguration:
#Configuration
public class DataportalApplicationConfig extends AbstractMongoConfiguration {
//#Value: inject property values into components
#Value("${spring.data.mongodb.uri}")
private String uri;
#Value("${spring.data.mongodb.database}")
private String database;
/**
* Configure the MongoClient with the uri
*
* #return MongoClient.class
*/
#Override
public MongoClient mongoClient() {
return new MongoClient(new MongoClientURI(uri,mongoClientOptions().builder()));
}