[Python] Can't access Spring Cloud Config from Python

I've created a Spring Cloud Config Server with (for now) only two yaml files

• application.yml
• application-dev.yml

Also Spring Security with basic authentication (username & password) is defined, but curiously I can't access my configurations except from browser (Chrome & Safari).

Below you can see my configurations.

• application.yml

# Basic configs - Name & Profile
spring:
application:
name: EMP_CNF-S
profiles:
default: ${ENVIRONMENT}

# GitHub Repository (private & SSH)
cloud:
config:
server:
git:
uri: git@github.com:*******/EMP_CNF-S.git
ignore-local-ssh-settings: true
default-label: ${ENVIRONMENT}
private-key: ${GIT_SSH_KEY}
search-paths: src/main/resources
skip-ssl-validation: true
timeout: 10
clone-on-start: true

security:
user:
name: ${EMP_CONFIG_USERNAME}
password: ${EMP_CONFIG_PASSWORD}

# Configuring Port
server:
port: 8888

# Spring Actuator
management:
endpoints:
web:
exposure:
include:
- health
- info
base-path: /actuator
endpoint:
health:
show-details: always


Here my application-dev.yml (Every variable value was set due to GitHub Actions & GitHub Secrets)

# Common Configurations - Datasource
spring:
datasource:
url: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/
username: root
password: *******

jpa:
hibernate:
ddl-auto: update
show-sql: true

test:
database:
replace: none

# Location Service
location-service:
schema: location_db

# Employee Service
employee-service:
schema: employee_db

# Customer Service
customer-service:
schema: ${EMP_SCHEMA_CUSTOMER}

# Supplier Service
supplier-service:
schema: ${EMP_SCHEMA_SUPPLIER}


But when I try to access my environment variables (location_db) I can't. I do get no result when trying to "curl" it:

curl -u admin:****** http://localhost:8888/location-service/dev


Also in my python script when using module spring-config-client and even with requests library I can't access the values despite getting a 200 success code. Here a snippet below:

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "http://localhost:8888/location-service/dev"
response = requests.get(url=url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(username='admin', password='******'), headers=headers)

# Print the raw content
print(f"Response status code: {response.status_code}")
print(f"Response text: {response.text}")

# Attempt to parse as JSON
try:
config = response.json()
print(config)
except requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError as e:
print(f"JSON decode error: {e}")


Output:

Response status code: 200
Response text: <!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="author" content="">
<title>Please sign in</title>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-beta/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-/Y6pD6FV/Vv2HJnA6t+vslU6fwYXjCFtcEpHbNJ0lyAFsXTsjBbfaDjzALeQsN6M" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link href="https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/examples/signin/signin.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-oOE/3m0LUMPub4kaC09mrdEhIc+e3exm4xOGxAmuFXhBNF4hcg/6MiAXAf5p0P56" crossorigin="anonymous"/>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<form class="form-signin" method="post" action="/login">
<h2 class="form-signin-heading">Please sign in</h2>
<p>
<label for="username" class="sr-only">Username</label>
<input type="text" id="username" name="username" class="form-control" placeholder="Username" required autofocus>
</p>
<p>
<label for="password" class="sr-only">Password</label>
<input type="password" id="password" name="password" class="form-control" placeholder="Password" required>
</p>
<button class="btn btn-lg btn-primary btn-block" type="submit">Sign in</button>
</form>
</div>
</body></html>
JSON decode error: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)


Here also the usage of spring_config module:

from spring_config import ClientConfigurationBuilder
from spring_config.client import SpringConfigClient

spring_config_username = os.getenv(key = 'EMP_CONFIG_USERNAME')
spring_config_password = '****'

# Build the client configuration
config = (
ClientConfigurationBuilder()
.app_name("location-service")
.profile("dev")
.branch('dev')
.address("http://localhost:8888")
.authentication((spring_config_username, spring_config_password)) # Set the authentication
.build()
)

# Create the Spring Config Client
client = SpringConfigClient(config)


And here the (error) output:

File "/Users/acharrade/.pyenv/versions/3.12.2/lib/python3.12/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

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