Guidance for conditionally loading endpoints

[hknlof]

We would like to enable @Path annotated endpoints conditionally. For e.g. a config QUARKUS_AUTH_ENABLED is set, then this would enable the Endpoint /authentication otherwise a 404 Not Found should be returned.

Is there way to UNLOAD these classes from the ClassLoader? How would you approach a potential solution?

[stephan-strate]

You could just implement this logic in the endpoint directly.
Read the config, if enabled process with the business logic, if disabled return another status code.

[hknlof]

Unfortunately, that would mean a lot of Endpoints need to have this Code enabled. Most of our Endpoints need to be checked against certain criteria for their availability. The approach I am now taking is using extensions and following the pattern of smallrye-metrics

[stephan-strate]

You could also use an interceptor and implement the config logic once.

[hknlof]

Yepp, unfortunately the sources of some endpoints need to reside in a different folder / sourceSet. I could not get Gradle sourceSets playing nicely with quarkusDev and quarkusBuild.