How to access a Spring Boot Application's name programmatically? - spring

Question

I've defined an application name using the bootstrap.yml file in my spring boot application.
spring:
application:
name: abc
How can i get this application name during runtime/programmatically ?

Answer 1

You should be able to use the #Value annotation to access any property you set in a properties/YAML file:
#Value("${spring.application.name}")
private String appName;

Answer 2

#Autowired
private ApplicationContext applicationContext;
...
this.applicationContext.getId();
Please, find this:
# IDENTITY (ContextIdApplicationContextInitializer)
spring.application.name=
spring.application.index=
In Spring Boot Reference Manual.
And follow with source code for that ContextIdApplicationContextInitializer class:
#Override
public void initialize(ConfigurableApplicationContext applicationContext) {
applicationContext.setId(getApplicationId(applicationContext.getEnvironment()));
}
Where the default behavior is with this:
/**
* Placeholder pattern to resolve for application name
*/
private static final String NAME_PATTERN = "${vcap.application.name:${spring.application.name:${spring.config.name:application}}}";

Answer 3

Since the #Value annotation is discouraged in Spring Boot when referencing configuration properties, and because applicationContext.getId(); doesn't always return the value of spring.application.name another way is to get the value from the Environment directly
private final Environment environment;
...
public MyBean(final Environment environment) {
this.environment = environment;
}
...
private getApplicationName() {
return this.environment.get("spring.application.name");
}
Another possible way would be to create your own ConfigurationProperties class to get access to the value.
I'm not saying these are the best ways, and I hope/wish that there is a better way, but it is a way.

Answer 4

Note! If your using a SpringBootTest, you need to suplly the properties/yml.
Otherwise, the environment/appcontext does not load the config files.
The, your app name is not set.
Like so:
#PropertySource("classpath:application.properties")
#RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
#SpringBootTest
....

Answer 5

This post is aged but I hate unanswered questions.
So use the following snippet:
#Value("${spring.application.name [: defaultValue]}")
private String appName;
What is between [] is optional.

Answer 6

So I found a really ugly way to do this, but it works so I'm not searching further. Maybe this will help someone.
The basic premise is that spring Environment stores the value inside a propertySource.. It appears that bootstrap config is stored in the ResourcePropertySource and so you can get it from that. For me it is currently throwing an exception, but then I can get the value out of the exception, so I haven't looked any further:
try {
this.environment.getProperty("name", ResourcePropertySource.class);
} catch (ConversionFailedException e) {
String res = (String)e.getValue();
}
And then you can just do this for every property you are interested in.
Like I said ugly, but it works.