Gradle > How to stop a Spring Boot application launched with gradle bootRun?

Question

I started a spring boot application using gradle bootRun.

Doing ctrl-c in the terminal where I launched the command does not stop the application.

What is then the correct way of stopping it?

Engaging

Have you seen baeldung.com/spring-boot-shutdown ? – Sought

@ThiagoChagas it does not answer my question. I'll rephrase it. I want to know how to kill the spring boot application launched with the command gradle bootRun as doing ctrl-c on the commnad line does not seem to stop it. – Engaging

You can check the process using netstat and then kill the process on that port. – Watermelon

Yes but I was expecting it to stop. So I'd like to know if it is normal or not for the process not to stop. – Engaging

Hit Ctrl + C few more times? Try Ctrl + D? Are you using Gradle Daemon? Try to disable it (--no-daemon)? – Marianomaribel

@Marianomaribel I am using the gradle daeomn but why should I disable it? – Engaging

It was just a guess – Marianomaribel

Answer 1

You can use the command gradle -stop to stop the Spring Boot application.

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I tried ./gradlew -stop and it worked for me. Thanks a lot! – Devries

This is killing the gradle demons, which is not right, there should be better way to stop spring boot servers gracefully without exceptions thrown.. do any know pl. share – Pardon

Answer 2

Not sure what operating system you are using but I am on a mac and was having the same problem, command + C wasn't working (on a mac the command key is equal to the Windows control key) but I used control+C and it did work. If you're on a Windows machine this doesn't help you but thought this might help others who are new to a mac.

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