Parsing Exception on reading remote config from Github in a Spring cloud project

Question

We have 2 micro services:

config-service and my-actual-service

We have a separate Git project that has all the springboot/springcloud configurations.

my-actual-service reaches out to config-service and config-service fetches the appropriate config from Github.

The config is loaded fine, but then it throws parsing error on the datasource section:

    org.springframework.cloud.config.server.environment.FailedToConstructEnvironmentException: 
Could not construct context for config=myconfig profile=dev label= includeOrigin=true; nested exception is while parsing a block mapping
     in 'reader', line 3, column 5:
            url: jdbc:oracle:thin:@myserver ...
            ^
    expected <block end>, but found '<scalar>'
     in 'reader', line 5, column 23:
            password: {cipher}encrypted_password ...
                              ^
    
            at org.springframework.cloud.config.server.environment.NativeEnvironmentRepository.findOne(NativeEnvironmentRepository.java:165) ~[spring-cloud-config-server-4.0.1.jar:4.0.1]
            at org.springframework.cloud.config.server.environment.AbstractScmEnvironmentRepository.findOne(AbstractScmEnvironmentRepository.java:64) ~[spring-cloud-config-server-4.0.1.jar:4.0.1]
            at org.springframework.cloud.config.server.environment.MultipleJGitEnvironmentRepository.findOneFromCandidate(MultipleJGitEnvironmentRepository.java:195) ~[spring-cloud-config-server-4.0.1.jar:4.0.1]
            at org.springframework.cloud.config.server.environment.MultipleJGitEnvironmentRepository.findOne(MultipleJGitEnvironmentRepository.java:178) ~[spring-cloud-config-server-4.0.1.jar:4.0.1]
            at org.springframework.cloud.config.server.environment.ObservationEnvironmentRepositoryWrapper.lambda$findOne$3(ObservationEnvironmentRepositoryWrapper.java:75) ~[spring-cloud-config-server-4.0.1.jar:4.0.1]

This is the config:

spring:
  datasource:
    url: "jdbc:oracle:thin:@myserver:port:sid"
    username: USER
    password: {cipher}encrypted_password

Can't figure out what might be going on here. I tried the url with quotes, with double quotes and without any quotes with no change.

We are using Spring boot / cloud version: 3.0.2.

Answer 1

It was a simple thing, the whole password string, as it had curly braces, needed to be in single quotes, so like: '{cipher}encrypted_password'.

What threw me off was that it started complaining on the url line. The url line doesn't need to have single or double quotes.