Clarify @FeignClient alias creation

fixes gh-1073
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nick-pww
2017-02-28 15:02:15 -05:00
committed by Spencer Gibb
parent 129e0ce4b5
commit 465b8273eb

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@@ -912,10 +912,8 @@ balancer (see <<spring-cloud-ribbon,below for details of Ribbon
support>>). You can also specify a URL using the `url` attribute
(absolute value or just a hostname). The name of the bean in the
application context is the fully qualified name of the interface.
An alias is also created which is the 'name' attribute plus 'FeignClient'.
For the example above, `@Qualifier("storesFeignClient")` could be used to
reference the bean. If you want to change the default `@Qualifier` value,
this can be done with the `qualifier` value in `@FeignClient`.
To specify your own alias value you can use the `qualifier` value
of the `@FeignClient` annotation.
The Ribbon client above will want to discover the physical addresses
for the "stores" service. If your application is a Eureka client then