JHIpster microservice application without registry generates configuration for UAA registry - jhipster

Question

Why does Yeoman Jhipster generator generate code for JHipster UAA service registration with JHipster Registry even when we specify that we are not going to use JHipster Registry during Microservice application generation.
Following are the options selected by me during the Micorservice app generation
? (1/16) Which *type* of application would you like to create? Microservice application
? (2/16) What is the base name of your application? service
? (3/16) As you are running in a microservice architecture, on which port would like your server to run? It should be unique to avoid port conflicts. 8081
? (4/16) What is your default Java package name? com.test
################ Jhipster registry not to be used ##########################
? (5/16) Do you want to use the JHipster Registry to configure, monitor and scale your microservices and gateways? No
################ Use Jhipster UAA #######################################
? (6/16) Which *type* of authentication would you like to use? [BETA] Authentication with JHipster UAA server (the server must be generated separately)
? (7/16) What is the folder path of your UAA application? ../uaa
? (8/16) Which *type* of database would you like to use? SQL (H2, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
? (9/16) Which *production* database would you like to use? PostgreSQL
? (10/16) Which *development* database would you like to use? H2 with in-memory persistence
? (11/16) Do you want to use Hibernate 2nd level cache? No
? (12/16) Would you like to use Maven or Gradle for building the backend? Maven
? (13/16) Which other technologies would you like to use?
? (14/16) Would you like to enable internationalization support? No
? (15/16) Besides JUnit and Karma, which testing frameworks would you like to use?
? (16/16) Would you like to install other generators from the JHipster Marketplace? No
After selecting these options when I generate the application it has following configuration for UAA inside application-dev.yml
jhipster:
http:
version: V_1_1 # To use HTTP/2 you will need SSL support (see above the "server.ssl" configuration)
# CORS is only enabled by default with the "dev" profile, so BrowserSync can access the API
cors:
allowed-origins: "*"
allowed-methods: GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS
allowed-headers: "*"
exposed-headers:
allow-credentials: true
max-age: 1800
security:
client-authorization:
access-token-uri: http://uaa/oauth/token
token-service-id: uaa ############ Why does it need service ID if it's not dependenty on Jhipster Registry
client-id: internal
client-secret: internal
Following are the two lines which are for UAA
access-token-uri: http://uaa/oauth/token
token-service-id: uaa
As it can be seen microservice configuration is created to look for a service named uaa. If this application is not dependent on the Jhipster Registry or any other registry for that matter, why this configuration is looking for a registered service name?
I expect that I only need to specify the UAA URL and credentials and that should be it in absence of a registry.
Any help is appreciated.
Jhipster version
{
"devDependencies": {
"generator-jhipster": "4.6.1"
}
}
Output of yo jhipster:info
##### **JHipster Version(s)**
```
C:\workspace\test3\service
`-- generator-jhipster#4.6.1
```
##### **JHipster configuration, a `.yo-rc.json` file generated in the root folder**
<details>
<summary>.yo-rc.json file</summary>
<pre>
{
"generator-jhipster": {
"promptValues": {
"packageName": "com.test"
},
"jhipsterVersion": "4.6.1",
"baseName": "service",
"packageName": "com.test",
"packageFolder": "com/test",
"serverPort": "8081",
"authenticationType": "uaa",
"uaaBaseName": "uaa",
"hibernateCache": "no",
"clusteredHttpSession": false,
"websocket": false,
"databaseType": "sql",
"devDatabaseType": "h2Memory",
"prodDatabaseType": "postgresql",
"searchEngine": false,
"messageBroker": false,
"serviceDiscoveryType": false,
"buildTool": "maven",
"enableSocialSignIn": false,
"jwtSecretKey": "replaced-by-jhipster-info",
"enableTranslation": false,
"applicationType": "microservice",
"testFrameworks": [],
"jhiPrefix": "jhi",
"skipClient": true,
"skipUserManagement": true,
"clientPackageManager": "npm"
}
}
</pre>
</details>
##### **JDL for the Entity configuration(s) `entityName.json` files generated in the `.jhipster` directory**
<details>
<summary>JDL entity definitions</summary>
<pre>
</pre>
</details>
##### **Environment and Tools**
java version "1.8.0_131"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
git version 2.10.0.windows.1
node: v6.11.1
npm: 3.9.6
bower: 1.7.7
gulp:
[07:50:35] CLI version 3.9.1
yeoman: 2.0.0

Answer 1

Sorry for the late answer. The only real unnecessary piece of generated code is that "token-service-id", as this is specific to having a service discovery inside your application stack (say, Netflix Eureka, Consul etc.)
If you don't have service discovery, you still need your application to access the UAA. So it's sufficient to just keep the access-token-uri and doesn't need to fill the token-service-id flag.
Basically, it should work, if your app is able to resolve the provided URI. But if not, feel free to open an issue on GitHub.