spring cloud config pattern match for profile - spring

Question

I am trying to implement the pattern matching feature of spring cloud config based on the different profiles for an application. Based on the documentation in http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/spring-cloud-config.html#_environment_repository it is possible to match the repositories based on profiles. Below is my config server application.yml
server:
port: 8888
spring:
cloud:
config:
server:
git:
uri: ssh://xxxx#github/sample/cloud-config-properties.git
repos:
development:
pattern:
-*/development
-*/staging
uri: ssh://git#xxxgithub.com/development.git
test:
pattern:
-*/test
-*/perf
uri: ${HOME}/Documents/cloud-config-sample-test
I have an config client application "user" and have user.properties, user-development.properties, user-test.properties
Based on the documentation - irrespective of the application name , if the pattern matches */development i,e localhost:8888/user/development or localhost:8888/demo/development my config server should match the profile pattern and fetch the appropriate properties.
Ex: http://localhost:8888/demo/development
I should get demo-development.properties from ssh://git#xxxgithub.com/development.git
But in my application, the default uri is used for all the profiles i.e my property file demo.properties is returned from
uri: ssh://xxxx#github/sample/cloud-config-properties.git
Any pointers on this?
EDIT:
pom.xml
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>Brixton.M5</version>
<relativePath />
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-config-server</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-config-monitor</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-bus-amqp</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>spring-snapshots</id>
<name>Spring Snapshots</name>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot-local</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>spring-snapshots-continuous</id>
<name>Spring Snapshots Continuous</name>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot-continuous-local</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>spring-milestones</id>
<name>Spring Milestones</name>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone-local</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>spring-releases</id>
<name>Spring Releases</name>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-release-local</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>spring-snapshots</id>
<name>Spring Snapshots</name>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot-local</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
<pluginRepository>
<id>spring-milestones</id>
<name>Spring Milestones</name>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone-local</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

Answer 1

after some debugging on the PatternMatching source code here is how I resolved the issue: You can choose one of the two ways.
application.yml
server:
port: 8888
spring:
cloud:
config:
server:
git:
uri: ssh://xxxx#github/sample/cloud-config-properties.git
repos:
development:
pattern: '*/development' ## give in quotes
uri: ssh://git#xxxgithub.com/development.git
OR
development:
pattern: xx*/development,*/development ##since it is not allowed to have a value starting with a wildcard( '*' )after pattern I first gave a generic matching but the second value is */development. Since pattern takes multiple values, the second pattern will match with the profile
uri: ssh://git#xxxgithub.com/development.git
pattern: */development.Error on yml file- expected alphabetic or numeric character, but found but found /.
The reason the profile pattern git repo was not identified because : although spring allows multiple array values for pattern beginning with a '-' in the yml file, the pattern matcher was taking the '-' as string to be matched. i.e it is looking for a pattern '-*/development' instead of '*/development'.
repos:
development:
pattern:
-*/development
-*/staging
Another issue i observed was, I was getting a compilation error on yml file if i had to mention the pattern array as '- */development' - note space after hyphen(which is meant to show that it can hold multiple values as array) and start with a '*/development' with an error: expected alphabetic or numeric character, but found but found /
repos:
development:
pattern:
- */development
- */staging