Unable to bind maven profile to spring boot profile - spring

Question

I've seen all the questions and post regarding this issue so please don't mark this as duplicate or route me to those issues, I have tried implementing those solutions but nothing worked as of now.
I have profile specific application.properties files i.e application-prod.properties, application-dev.properties, application-int.properties etc
pom.xml
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>prod</id>
<properties>
<activeProfile>prod</activeProfile>
</properties>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>int</id>
<properties>
<activeProfile>int</activeProfile>
</properties>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>dev</id>
<properties>
<activeProfile>dev</activeProfile>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
…
</build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<index>true</index>
<manifest>
<mainClass>com.demo.Application</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-help-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>show-profiles</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>active-profiles</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
application.properties
spring.profiles.active=#activeProfile#
I'm doing mvn clean install -Pprod and then running the application.
I'm sure the maven profile is executing during the build as I get this during the build
The following profiles are active:
- prod (source: my-project-snapshot)
This is what I'm getting when running the application:
: The following profiles are active: #activeProfile#
Can anyone please help me here.
UPDATE
when I close my IDE(STS) and do the maven build, it is working. Any info regarding this info would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

Have you enabled resource filtering in your pom.xml? Since you are using spring-boot this can be easily enabled, in your pom.xml
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
…
</build>
UPDATE
I have put all your plugins in a sample project's pom.xml also matching your spring-boot version:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.2.1.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>in.example</groupId>
<artifactId>demo</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>demo</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
<properties>
<java.version>11</java.version>
</properties>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>prod</id>
<properties>
<activeProfile>prod</activeProfile>
</properties>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>dev</id>
<properties>
<activeProfile>dev</activeProfile>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-aop</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-help-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>show-profiles</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>active-profiles</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<index>true</index>
<manifest>
<mainClass>com.example.demo.DemoApplication</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
When I run
mvn clean package spring-boot:run -Pdev -DskipTests
I see in the log files
com.example.demo.DemoApplication : The following profiles are active: dev
And when I check the generated jar in target dir...target\demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar\BOOT-INF\classes\ filtering has succeeded since in application.properties I get the line:
spring.profiles.active=dev
which in the source application.properties is
spring.profiles.active=#activeProfile#
So if you have a pom file similar to the above filtering should work.

Answer 2

Thanks a lot #pleft, I tried everything and because of that I realized this may not be a maven issue but an IDE issue. I'm using STS 3 and I found out that disabling "Refresh using native hooks" under Window > preferences > General > Workspace > Refresh using native hooks would solve the issue of STS IDE ignoring -P<profile> during maven build when STS is open.
There seems to be already a bug ticket for this.