Avoid wrapping cause in NoFallbackAvailableException when using Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker

Question

I'm using Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker 2.0.0 (resilience4j implementation) for circuit breaking in my application. Let's say a have method define like this:

String doStuff() {
  ...
  // Oh no, something went wrong
  throw new SomethingWentWrongException();
  ...
}

I wrap doStuff in the circuit breaker:

return circuitBreakerFactory.create("doStuff").run(() -> doStuff());

When SomethingWentWrongException is thrown, and I haven't declared a fallback for the circuit breaker, then SomethingWentWrongException will be wrapped in an instance of org.springframework.cloud.client.circuitbreaker.NoFallbackAvailableException as the "cause".

My question is: Is there anyway to configure so that Spring Cloud CircuitBreaker doesn't wrap SomethingWentWrongException in NoFallbackAvailableException and simply just throws the SomethingWentWrongException instead.

Answer 1

you can disable the circuit breaker using this property to throw the original exception:

spring:
  cloud:
    openfeign:
      circuitbreaker:
        enabled: false

but then if you have other fallback classes in your feign clients they are going to stop working. I would keep it enabled and just provide a fallback to your feign client and then you can handle this more nicely, or check the cause for a source exception.