How to get Spring Actuator build information locally?-CodePudding

When accessing my Spring Actuator /info endpoint I receive the following information:

{
    "git": {
        "branch": "8743b52063cd84097a65d1633f5c74f5",
        "commit": {
            "id": "b3j2924",
            "time": "05.07.2021 @ 10:00:00 UTC"
        }
    },
    "build": {
        "encoding": {
            "source": "UTF-8"
        },
        "version": "1.0",
        "artifact": "my-artifact",
        "name": "my-app",
        "time": 0451570333.122000000,
        "group": "my.group"
    }
}

My project does not maintain a META-INF/build-info.properties file.

I now wanted to write a unit-test for that exact output but get the following error:

java.lang.AssertionError: 
Expecting actual:
  "{"git":{"branch":"8743b52063cd84097a65d1633f5c74f5","commit":{"id":"b3j2924","time":"05.07.2021 @ 10:00:00 UTC"}}}"
to contain:
  "build"

The whole build block is missing in the output.

My questions are the following:

What needs to be done to access the build information during a local unit-test run without providing a META-INF/build-info.properties.
From where does Spring Actuator retrieve the actual build information when my project does not has a META-INF/build-info.properties file so it gives me the output from above?

CodePudding user response：

The build-info.properties file is typically generated at build time by Spring Boot's Maven or Gradle plugins.