override command line Spring properties with bootstrap.yml - spring

i have a tomcat box , which has spring active profile set already, as a command line argument every time a spring app is deployed through catalina.
i am using spring cloud config server , so in config client i specify active profile in bootstrap.yml , but as i mention earlier it is overriden by tomcat command line argument .
how to override the command line argument passed through tomcat , with my boostrap.yml at the time of bootstrap context loading so that i can pass active profile from my bootstrap.yml to config server.
Tomcat set environment command (which i cannot change as i dont have access)
JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Djava.library.path=/path -Dspring.profiles.active=e2"
bootstrap.yml
spring:
profiles:
active: e2,cron
cloud:
config:
uri: http://localhost:8888
application:
name: heartbeat_monitor.

Command line argument(-Dspring.profiles.active=e2) will always override your properties file, no matter how many hardcoded profiles you specify in your yaml file. I would suggest you to add additional profile to be set programatically at the runtime and keep two property files with -profilename before the .yml extension.
This could be done as follows:
ApplicationMain.java
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication app = new SpringApplication(DemoApplication.class);
app.setAdditionalProfiles("cron");
app.run(args);
}
bootstrap-e2.yml
// Keep all the properties which is specific to e2 profile.
bootstrap-cron.yml
// Keep all the properties which is specific to cron profile.
In this way, you can keep both the profiles in use .But, if a property is common in both the bootstrap files, then program will pick the property from that bootstrap file whose profile matches with the runtime args : -Dspring.profiles.active

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Understanding the spring profile

I have basic idea how spring profile works. But here in this file this - i am not able to get it. And current Application.yml file mentioning the three profile which one will get active and when that i need to know as well. Below is the Application.yml file content.
spring:
application:
name:
profiles:
active:
-default
-local
-swaggerinfo
Note: i have three config files present in my resources. Also if i want to look another config file
then spring use the naming convention like Application-<Name>.extension . so - is already get added for the new config file then why we explicitly need
to put another one in our application.yml file under spring.profile.active.
Below are the names of the three config files present under the resources folder.
application.yml
application-local.yml
bootstrap-default.yml
But here in this file this - i am not able to get it. spring use the
naming convention like Application-.extension . so - is already
get added for the new config file then why we explicitly need to put
another one in our application.yml file under spring.profile.active
spring:
application:
name:
profiles:
active:
-default
-local
-swaggerinfo
The declaration of profiles are incorrect. You must either put space or should not use (-) at all.
spring:
profiles:
active:
- default
- local
- swaggerinfo
The Spring also supports the following way of declarations.
spring:
profiles:
active: default,local,swaggerinfo
or
spring:
profiles:
active:
default
local
swaggerinfo
Here default refers to application.properties file not bootstrap-default.properties. Also, You don't need to specify the default profile. Spring automatically use application.properties as default one. So, in your case it's appropriate to go with local and swaggerinfo.
current Aplication.yml file mentioning the three profile which one
will get active and when that i need to know as well.
Let's talk about the following declaration.
spring:
profiles:
active:
- local
- swaggerinfo
Both local and swaggerinfo profiles will be active for props loading. So,which means that all the three files (application.yml by default) will be consumed by spring.
Let's talk about the order.
The order in the above case would be
application -> application-local -> application-swaggerinfo
Note:
Assume that you've mentioned the same prop in all the three files then in that case the precedence will be given as per the order highlighted above i.e prop mentioned in the application-swaggerinfo will override the ones available in the other twos.

Spring spring.profiles.include: doesn't read profile-related properties

There are several ways present to define "active profiles" for a Spring Boot application.
The default one is to pass it through a command line, like this:
java -Dspring.profiles.active=dev,local -jar myapp.jar
it works just fine (as expected): All three sets of profile-related properties will be loaded in proper order:
application.yaml
application-dev.yaml will override the previous one
application-local.yaml will override the previous one as well (these properties will have the most priority)
Based on the idea, that my "local" profile should always "use and overrides" properties from the "dev", let's "hardcode" such behavior.
Let's use the 'spring.profiles.include' feature for this. So, the following lines are added to the 'application-local.yaml':
spring.profiles:
include:
- dev
I expect, now I can pass the "local" profile only in the command line, and the "dev" profile will be applied automatically (with his properties, of course):
java -Dspring.profiles.active=local -jar myapp.jar
But ooop!*: properties from the 'application-dev.yaml' are ignored.
Why? Is it a bug? Is it a feature that forces me to list all profiles in a command line directly?
I'm sure that the behavior around profiles activation should be the same without any difference in how the active-profiles list was passed to Spring Boot framework.
The application:
#SpringBootApplication #EnableConfigurationProperties( MyProps::class )
class SpringApp4
#ConfigurationProperties("my.db") #ConstructorBinding
data class MyProps(val name: String, val url: String, val user: String)
#Component
class MyRunner(val myProps: MyProps, val env: Environment) : CommandLineRunner {
override fun run(vararg args: String) {
println("myProps = $myProps")
println("activeProfiles = ${env.activeProfiles.joinToString()}")
exitProcess(0)
}
}
fun main() { runApplication<SpringApp4>() }
application.yaml:
my.db:
name: "default-name"
url: "default-url"
user: "default-user"
application-dev.yaml:
my.db:
url: "dev-url"
user: "dev-user"
application-local.yaml:
spring.profiles.include:
- dev
my.db:
user: "local-user"
Run1: java -Dspring.profiles.active=dev,local -jar myapp.jar
Correct output:
myProps = MyProps(name=default-name, url=dev-url, user=local-user)
activeProfiles = dev, local
it's correct because the url=dev-url
Run2: java -Dspring.profiles.active=local -jar myapp.jar
Incorrect output:
myProps = MyProps(name=default-name, url=default-url, user=local-user)
activeProfiles = local
It's not correct because the url=default-url and the activeProfiles doesn't contain the "dev" at all.
Help me please to figure out how to use the spring.profiles.include feature in yaml to build a kind of top level profiles that will activate other automatically.
In Run2 You are giving profile as local
i.e
-Dspring.profiles.active=local
So spring will first load application.yml and then application-local.yml
I can see the output is expected.
Since some properties like name and url are not present in application-local.yml, so the values of these fields will be same as present in application.yml
FYI : application.yml is always called irrespective of profile, and then it gets overridden by the profile mentioned in -Dspring.profiles.active property
spring.profiles.include deprecated in Spring Boot 2.4 and no longer works: https://spring.io/blog/2020/08/14/config-file-processing-in-spring-boot-2-4
It caused recursive resource loading; that broke Kubernates ConfigMap so they removed recursion.
Use spring.profiles.active or spring.profiles.group.

Spring ignores `spring.cloud.config.discovery` set as default properties

I'm trying to create Spring Application without referring to any external files. This is supposed to be a module that you'd then include as a dependency, configure and use to plug in the service into an existing ecosystem. This is how I'm doing that:
Map<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<>();
properties.put("server.address", "0.0.0.0")
properties.put("server.port", 8080)
properties.put("spring.profiles.active", "cloud")
properties.put("spring.application.name", "someApp")
properties.put("spring.cloud.config.failFast", true)
properties.put("spring.cloud.config.discovery.enabled", true)
properties.put("spring.cloud.config.discovery.serviceId", "config")
properties.put("eureka.instance.preferIpAddress", true)
properties.put("eureka.instance.statusPageUrlPath", "/health")
new SpringApplicationBuilder()
.bannerMode(Banner.Mode.OFF)
.properties(properties)
.sources(SpringConfiguration.class)
.web(false)
.registerShutdownHook(true)
.build()
I then go on to provide Eureka default zone in the run command, via environmental variables:
--env eureka_client_serviceUrl_defaultZone='http://some-host:8765/eureka/' --env SPRING_CLOUD_CONFIG_LABEL='dev' --env SPRING_CLOUD_INETUTILS_PREFERRED_NETWORKS='10.0'
Application registers successfully in Eureka, but unfortunately it tries to fetch the config prior to that and it's looking for it under the default URL (http://localhost:8888) instead of fetching config server IP from the registry. And yes, it does work if I put all of those properties in the bootstrap.yml file. Can I somehow make it work without using file-resources?
You are passing the properties using SpringApplicationBuilder which is responsible for SpringApplication and ApplicationContext instances.
From the documentation , the properties provided here will be part of ApplicationContext NOT the BootstrapContext. ApplicationContext is the child of BootstrapContext.
You can read more about the Bootstrap Context here -
http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-commons/1.3.x/single/spring-cloud-commons.html#_the_bootstrap_application_context
Bootstrap.yml/properties is used to configure your Bootstrap Context.
You can look at these properties to change the name or location of the file -
spring.cloud.bootstrap.name - bootstrap(default)
spring.cloud.bootstrap.location
You will have to use a file resource(yml or properties).

Environment VM arg passed to bootRun not being picked up by Spring Boot application

I am trying to set the environment of my Spring Boot (1.5.4.RELEASE) application at runtime, but it appears I have something out of alignment.
My application.yml is defined like this:
spring:
profiles.active: ${env:local}
---
spring:
profiles: local
foo: bar
---
spring:
profiles: dev
foo: bar
In a class that I have annotated as #Configuration, I have a method that does the following just so I can show the environment that is being used:
#Value('${spring.profiles.active}')
String activeProfile
#PostConstruct
def bootComplete() {
println "App started with profile: $activeProfile"
}
Under this configuration, when my application starts, I see this in the console:
App started with profile: local
If I modify ${env:local} to be ${env:dev} in my application.yml and I start the application, I see this in the console:
App started with profile: dev
My goal is to start the application with VM arguments to set the active profile at runtime. I am adding the argument: -Denv=dev but it appears that it has no effect on the starting of the application. Can anyone suggest what I might be overlooking here?
I found the solution to my problem. The issue was that I was starting the application using Gradle bootRun. My assumption was that the VM args set there would be used. I am now running the application by calling the class directly, and the VM args are working (both -Denv and -Dspring.profiles.active)
Doing -Denv=env will not make any effect since env is not a property key.
This is how you can do it:
-Dspring.profiles.active=dev

How to externalize configuration in Spring Boot using profiles?

I have an application where I would like to change a datasource password that is stored in a application.yml file. The password in the YML file is stored such as this:
----
spring:
profiles: production
datasource:
password: prodpassword
Note: I also have profiles for development and stage.
The password prop is set on a class using ConfigurationProperties such as follows:
#Component
#ConfigurationProperties(prefix="datasource")
public class DataSourceConnector {
private password;
public void setPassword(String password) {
this.password = password;
}
Now, I try to override the prodpassword with prodpa$$word via a command line arg but it doesn't work:
java -Dspring.profiles.active=production -jar /usr/share/myapp/myapp-1.0.jar --datasource.password='prodpa$$word'
I also tried creating an identical (except the new password) application.yml file outside of the jar. That doesn't work either.
java -Dspring.profiles.active=production -jar /usr/share/myapp/myapp-1.0.jar --spring.config.location=/usr/share/myapp/
Note: I left out the file name in the location param due to this note from http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-external-config-profile-specific-properties:
If you have specified any files in spring.config.location, profile-specific variants of those files will not be considered. Use directories inspring.config.location if you also want to also use profile-specific properties.
How can I override datasource.password within the application.yml of the jar?
Edit:
The application is being started / stopped using supervisorctl.
After changing the config file that contains the java command, supervisorctl must reread the change:
supervisorctl reread
Next, activate the changes with:
supervisorctl update

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