I run my Spring Boot project from the command line using mvn install and then mvn spring-boot:run -Dspring.profiles.active="development". This works fine but is not very convenient. I would like to start it directly from Intellij by clicking the green run button.
I tried to add a new run configuration but without success. I set "main class" and "active profiles" and tried to add "run maven goal" but the last one does not work (when I choose the working directory - the one with pom.xml - it says Maven projects not found). What should I exactly set up ? I just want to run the two commands mentioned above from the root directory of the project.
Update: here is the project structure project structure
Please follow the following steps:
Set the maven goal by clicking the "+" in IntelliJ (circled area)
Write mvn install.
Set the VM Options as: -Dspring.profiles.active=development
After that it should just run fine just by clicking the green play button.
This should help you get started.
I am running a spring boot application inside IntelliJ IDEA and noticed a difference if I run it via the run tab (run menu) and via manual command from the terminal tab.
If I run it through a maven run target (play button), I do not see any colors inside the 'run' tab. If I run it via 'mvn spring-boot:run from the 'terminal' tab I see the pretty color highlights. The maven run configuration also runs the same command, spring-boot:run.
Application started from the play button/run configuration (run tab):
Application started from the terminal tab via mvn spring-boot:run (terminal tab):
Inside build.gradle, add the following block to get colorized log output when running your Spring Boot app inside IntelliJ IDEA via gradle bootRun.
bootRun {
jvmArgs = ["-Dspring.output.ansi.enabled=ALWAYS"]
}
It's supported for the Spring Boot Run/Debug configuration type. It explicitly passes
-Dspring.output.ansi.enabled=always
JVM option enabling the color output.
As far as I know, ANSI colors support is not available when you run it in IntelliJ IDEA using Maven or Gradle configurations in the built-in console. Feature request is welcome.
In IDEA 2017.1 EAP I'm getting colours even if I'm just running the application with the standard run command
Edit:
Might be that Community edition doesn't support Spring Boot at all (https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_matrix.html)
You can obtain the very same output also in the Community Edition with the previously mentioned option:
-Dspring.output.ansi.enabled=always
Simply go to "Run" -> "Edit Configurations..." and add the option in the "VM options:" field for your main class.
I have 5 environments:
- local (my development machine)
- dev
- qc
- uat
- live
- staging
I want different application properties to be used for each environment, so I have the following properties files each which have a different URL for the datasource:
- application.properties (containing common properties)
- application-local.properties
- application-dev.properties
- application-qc.properties
- application-uat.properties
- application-live.properties
I am using IntelliJ and running my app using bootRun in the Gradle plugin on my local machine. I will be using deploying the same application war file on all other environments which run Tomcat.
I have tried adding:
--spring.profiles.active=local
to the run configuration under script parameters.
I have tried adding
-Dspring.profiles.active=local
to the run configuration under VM options.
Neither work. I keep seeing the INFO message on startup say: No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default
If I run my app from the windows command line using
gradle bootRun
but I first set the environment variable
set SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=local
Then everything works.
So my question is, how do I activate my local spring boot profile when running bootRun from IntelliJ ?
I added -Dspring.profiles.active=test to VM Options and then re-ran that configuration. It worked perfectly.
This can be set by
Choosing Run | Edit Configurations...
Go to the Configuration tab
Expand the Environment section to reveal VM options
If you actually make use of spring boot run configurations (currently only supported in the Ultimate Edition) it's easy to pre-configure the profiles in "Active Profiles" setting.
Spring Boot seems had changed the way of reading the VM options as it evolves. Here's some way to try when you launch an application in Intellij and want to active some profile:
1. Change VM options
Open "Edit configuration" in "Run", and in "VM options", add: -Dspring.profiles.active=local
It actually works with one project of mine with Spring Boot v2.0.3.RELEASE and Spring v5.0.7.RELEASE, but not with another project with Spring Boot v2.1.1.RELEASE and Spring v5.1.3.RELEASE.
Also, when running with Maven or JAR, people mentioned this:
mvn spring-boot:run -Drun.profiles=dev
or
java -jar -Dspring.profiles.active=dev XXX.jar
(See here: how to use Spring Boot profiles)
2. Passing JVM args
It is mentioned somewhere, that Spring changes the way of launching the process of applications if you specify some JVM options; it forks another process and will not pass the arg it received so this does not work. The only way to pass args to it, is:
mvn spring-boot:run -Dspring-boot.run.jvmArguments="..."
Again, this is for Maven.
https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/maven-plugin/examples/run-debug.html
3. Setting (application) env var
What works for me for the second project, was setting the environment variable, as mentioned in some answer above: "Edit configuration" - "Environment variable", and:
SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=local
Tested with IntelliJ Community edition 2021.x
You can create Multiple configurations, one each for a specific profile, In my case below, I have created a dev config with dev profile environment variable.
Goto Run > Edit Configuration
Choose the configuration you want to edit, in the left under Application.
On the right side > Under Environment Variable, update spring.profiles.active=<your profile name> example
spring.profiles.active=dev
(observer:- the variable should be without -D flag)
Save the changes and Run the Spring boot app with the same configuration.
Note:- You can also create a new configuration or copy existing in step 2 above, using the option available in the same panel.
Try add this command in your build.gradle
So for running configure that shape:
For Spring Boot 2.1.0 and later you can use
mvn spring-boot:run -Dspring-boot.run.profiles=foo,bar
I ended up adding the following to my build.gradle:
bootRun {
environment SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE: environment.SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE ?: "local"
}
test {
environment SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE: environment.SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE ?: "test"
}
So now when running bootRun from IntelliJ, it defaults to the "local" profile.
On our other environments, we will simply set the 'SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE' environment variable in Tomcat.
I got this from a comment found here: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/592
A probable cause could be that you do not pass the command line parameters into the applications main method. I made the same mistake some weeks ago.
public static final void main(String... args) {
SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
}
I use the Intellij Community Edition.
Go to the "Run/Debug Configurations" > Runner tab > Environment variables > click button "...". Add:
SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE = local
spring.profiles.active
In my case I used below configuration at VM options in IntelliJ , it was not picking the local configurations but after a restart of IntelliJ it picked configuration details from IntelliJ and service started running.
-Dspring.profiles.active=local
So for resuming...
If you have the IntelliJ Ultimate the correct answer is the one provided by Daniel Bubenheim
But if you don't, create in Run->Edit Configurations and in Configuration tab add the next Environment variable:
SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=profilename
And to execute the jar do:
java -jar -Dspring.profiles.active=profilename XXX.jar
Try this. Edit your build.gradle file as followed.
ext { profile = project.hasProperty('profile') ? project['profile'] : 'local' }
You can try the above way to activate a profile
Here are 2 ways
Using gradle project property
In build.gradle, add
bootRun{
//https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/592#issuecomment-880263914
if (project.hasProperty('profiles')) {
environment SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE: profiles
} else {
def profiles = 'dev'
environment SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE: profiles
}
}
In intellij gradle configuration, change the value "test" in "-Pprofiles" as appropriate to environment you want to run
Using environment property
Follow answer by #Hubert https://stackoverflow.com/a/39749545/3333878
And configure the run configuration as
Create files properties like these
application.properties
application-dev.properties
application-prod.properties
then run
VM option is hidden by default.
Here is the right way to do it
Run->Edit Configurations->Select the application on the left menu->Add VM Options
and then add
-Dspring.profiles.active=<profile_name>
Replace the <profile_name> with the profile, say local
Click Apply & OK.
Set -Dspring.profiles.active=local under program arguments.
I'm trying to do the following, but in IntelliJ with a TestNG run configuration:
mvn clean install -Dfoo=bar
So, the value for the foo system property should be bar:
System.out.println(System.getProperty("foo"));
======
bar
All potential answers I've googled either tell me to hardcode variables into my pom.xml (which I can't do) or say to "just set it in Edit Configurations..." without showing what a properly set variable looks like. I dug through the IntelliJ manual too.
I tried all the logical names for "foo" in both Run/Debug Configurations/Parameters tab and Run/Debug Configurations/Environment Variables, such as Dfoo and -Dfoo.
Use a Maven configuration instead of a TestNG configuration. You can still run your TestNG tests from the Maven configuration:
I have a Spring Boot project with gradle build tool. The JDBC url, username and password are kept in a property file which is not part of application it's a external property file, the path of the property file is taken from system properties as follows.
export _JAVA_OPTIONS=-DdatabaseConfiguration=db.properties
It is working if I run the application from terminal using gradle bootRun, but when I try to run from Intellij IDEA 13 gradle tasks its not working, the property value is null.
I tried the VM options in Run/Debug Configuration as in the below screen shoot its not working either
How can the JAVA_OPTIONS can be set in Intellij IDEA 13 gradle tasks.
This is because every time you use the Gradle tool window to kick off tasks in IntelliJ, it creates/overwrites the launch configuration for that task.
Basically, I've had to run from the Gradle tool window just once. Then I go into the failed Launch Config (shown in question) and enter the system property in the VM options. From there on out, I need to use that Launch Config to execute the task instead of the Gradle tool window.
Update: Even better solution:
Preferences->Build, Execution, Deployment->Build Tools->Gradle->Gradle VM options
Add your system properties there (i.e. -Dappengine.sdk.root=/opt/google/google-cloud-sdk/platform/appengine-java-sdk)
Doing this will keep them from getting overwritten/lost in the Launch configs that the Gradle tool window generates.
Another thing to note is that using the Gradle tool window causes the commands to be run without access to Environment Variables. This can cause a lot of problems with builds that depend on these env vars.
I ran into this today with the appengine-gradle-plugin and had to put
-Dappengine.sdk.root=/opt/google/google-cloud-sdk/platform/appengine-java-sdk
in the VM options because it was not seeing the env vars. From the command line, it picks up the env vars and works fine. This worked for my appengineRun task.
But it does not work for appengineUpdate since that gives another error caused by lack of env vars: Toolkit not found: apple.awt.CToolkit