Using lazily the Erktop connection to CouchDB

[nestor.urquiza]

Hi,

I have integrated Erktop in our existing Spring application. If I
follow the suggestions from tutorial and sample code my Spring
application will fail to start if the CouchDB server is not listening
for connections. Is there a way to allow the application to continue
and just fail in the case the Repository is invoked?

Here is the typical error:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could
not instantiate bean class
[com.nestorurquiza.dms.couchdb.erktop.dao.DocumentRepository]:
Constructor threw exception; nested exception is
org.ektorp.DbAccessException:
org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connection to
http://localhost:5984 refused

Thanks!
-Nestor

[Henrik Lundgren]

I think you will have to implement a custom bean factory that creates
a proxy for your repository that will defer the creattion of your
actual repo until the first call.

/Henrik