Using GZIP compression with Spring Boot MVC JavaConfig with RESTful

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We use Spring Boot MVC with annotation-based java-config for series of RESTful services and we want to selectively enable HTTP GZIP stream compression on some API responses  I know I can do this manually in my controller and a byte    ResponseBody  however we d prefer to rely on the Spring MVC infrastructure  filters etc  and have it automatically do the JSON conversion and compression  i e  the method returns a POJO   How can I enable GZIP compression in the ResponseBody or embedded Tomcat instance  and in a way we can selectively compress only some responses  We don t currently have any XML based configuration

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Enabeling GZip in Tomcat doesn t worked in my Spring Boot Project  I used CompressingFilter found here    Bean public Filter compressingFilter         CompressingFilter compressingFilter   new CompressingFilter        return compressingFilter

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Spring Boot 1 4 Use this for Javascript HTML Json all compressions   server compression enabled  true server compression mime-types  application json application xml text html text xml text plain text css application javascript

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This is basically the same solution as  andy-wilkinson provided  but as of Spring Boot 1 0 the customize      method has a ConfigurableEmbeddedServletContainer parameter    Another thing that is worth mentioning is that Tomcat only compresses content types of text html  text xml and text plain by default  Below is an example that supports compression of application json as well    Bean public EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer servletContainerCustomizer         return new EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer              Override         public void customize ConfigurableEmbeddedServletContainer servletContainer                  TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory  servletContainer  addConnectorCustomizers                      new TomcatConnectorCustomizer                              Override                         public void customize Connector connector                                AbstractHttp11Protocol httpProtocol    AbstractHttp11Protocol  connector getProtocolHandler                                httpProtocol setCompression  on                                httpProtocol setCompressionMinSize 256                               String mimeTypes   httpProtocol getCompressableMimeTypes                                String mimeTypesWithJson   mimeTypes         MediaType APPLICATION JSON VALUE                              httpProtocol setCompressableMimeTypes mimeTypesWithJson

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I had the same problem into my Spring Boot Spring Data project when invoking to a  RepositoryRestResource   The problem is the MIME type returned  which is application hal json  Adding it to the server compression mime-types property solved this problem for me   Hope this helps to someone else

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I have added for this    Server compression  server compression enabled true server compression min-response-size 2048 server compression mime-types application json application xml text html text xml text plain   taken from http   bisaga com blog programming web-compression-on-spring-boot-application

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To enable GZIP compression  you need to modify the configuration of the embedded Tomcat instance  To do so  you declare a EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer bean in your Java configuration and then register a TomcatConnectorCustomizer with it   For example    Bean public EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer servletContainerCustomizer         return new EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer              Override         public void customize ConfigurableEmbeddedServletContainerFactory factory                  TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory  factory  addConnectorCustomizers new TomcatConnectorCustomizer                      Override                 public void customize Connector connector                        AbstractHttp11Protocol httpProtocol    AbstractHttp11Protocol  connector getProtocolHandler                        httpProtocol setCompression  on                        httpProtocol setCompressionMinSize 64                                                          See the Tomcat documentation for more details on the various compression configuration options that are available   You say that you want to selectively enable compression  Depending on your selection criteria  then the above approach may be sufficient  It enables you to control compression by the request s user-agent  the response s size  and the response s mime type   If this doesn t meet your needs then I believe you will have to perform the compression in your controller and return a byte   response with a gzip content-encoding header

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The rest of these answers are out of date and or over the top complicated for something that should be simple IMO  how long has gzip been around for now  longer than Java     From the docs   In application properties 1 3         server compression enabled true   opt in to content types server compression mime-types application json application xml text html text xml text plain application javascript text css   not worth the CPU cycles at some point  probably server compression min-response-size 10240    In application properties 1 2 2 -  lt 1 3  server tomcat compression on server tomcat compressableMimeTypes application json application xml text html text xml text plain application javascript text css   Older than 1 2 2    Component public class TomcatCustomizer implements TomcatConnectorCustomizer       Override   public void customize Connector connector        connector setProperty  compression    on           Add json and xml mime types  as they re not in the mimetype list by default     connector setProperty  compressableMimeType    text html text xml text plain application json application xml            Also note this will ONLY work if you are running embedded tomcat   If you plan to deploy to a non embedded tomcat you will have to enable it in server xml http   tomcat apache org tomcat-9 0-doc config http html Standard Implementation  IRL Production Note   Also to avoid all of this consider using a proxy load balancer setup in front of Tomcat with nginx and or haproxy or similar since it will handle static assets and gzip MUCH more efficiently and easily than Java Tomcat s threading model   You don t want to throw  cat in the bath because it s busy compressing stuff instead of serving up requests  or more likely spinning up threads eating CPU heap sitting around waiting for database IO to occur while running up your AWS bill which is why traditional Java Tomcat might not be a good idea to begin with depending on what you are doing but I digress      refs  https   docs spring io spring-boot docs current-SNAPSHOT reference html howto html how-to-enable-http-response-compression  https   github com spring-projects spring-boot issues 2031

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On recents versions in application yml config   ---  spring    profiles  dev  server    compression      enabled  true     mime-types  text html text css application javascript application json  ---

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