Several PropertyPlaceholderConfigurers with spring - spring

I have a strange problem with my spring bean definition. My application is a multi-module thing.
At the moment I have a project named core-lib which has a spring.xml file defining a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer like this:
<bean id="corePropertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="order" value="10" />
<property name="locations">
<list>
<!-- default properties files containing ALL possible properties -->
<value>classpath:default.connection.properties</value>
<value>classpath:default.mq.properties</value>
<!-- installation specific, optional properties file containing overridden properties -->
<value>classpath:connection.properties</value>
<value>classpath:mq.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true" />
</bean>
Second I have a depending project which has its own spring.xml file including the one from the core-lib project. Moreover it defines a second PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer like this:
<!-- import configuration from service layer -->
<import resource="classpath:spring.xml"/>
<bean id="commPropertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="order" value="20" />
<property name="locations">
<list>
<!-- properties files containing ALL possible properties -->
<value>classpath:processing.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true" />
</bean>
Now I have the behavior that a bean defined in this second spring PlaceholderConfigurer can't be instantiated due to missing properties:
BeanDefinitionStoreException: Invalid bean definition with name 'commServer' defined in class path resource [comm-server.spring.xml]: Could not resolve placeholder 'comm.server.CommServer.port'
If I set a breakpoint in the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer class it only get's triggered for the first bean instance and never for the second. Has anyone had a similar setup and can give me some advice?
Thanks,
Sebastian

There is a more comfortable way by defining a new placeholder prefix and suffix:
<bean id="propertyConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="location">
<value>classpath:configuration.properties</value>
</property>
<property name="placeholderPrefix" value="myprefix{" />
<property name="placeholderSuffix" value="}" />
</bean>
Found here: http://javalibs.blogspot.co.at/2008/04/java-spring-framework-multiple.html

OK I resolved that myself, although I do not understand why this is working so strange.
I have defined a different prefix in the second placeholder (?{ instead of ${) and now its working. I had expected that this would work without any special prefixes...

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Reading JNDI name from external properties file in Spring

I am developing a Spring web application where I am using JMS as well as some datasource connection.
Now Instead of hardcoding the JNDI names of DataSource/Jms Connection Factory,I want to read them from a external properties file.
I used the following configuration::
<bean id="myProps" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="locations" value="classpath*:myFile"/>
<property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true"/>
</bean>
`<jee:jndi-lookup` id="dataSource" jndi-name="${DS_JNDI}" expected-type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>
But during deployment time it is throwing an error in weblogic:::
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Unable to resolve '${DS_JNDI}'. Resolved ''; remaining name '${DS_JNDI}'
Is it like that I cannot put a property file entry when using <jee:jndi-lookup>???
you should remove the star after classpath, and add properties of file extension
<bean id="myProps" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="locations" value="classpath:myFile.properties"/>
<property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true"/>
</bean>
<bean id="myProperties" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath*:myFile.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
This is the correct solution of the problem.I think from Spring5.x onwards it has stopped appending ".properties" extension.

Spring multiple PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer (in multiple projects) how to override an already defined property?

I have a situation where I need to override properties from one project in another. In project 1, where I have no control over the source or the configuration, there is the following config:
<bean id="propSource1" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="location" value="classpath:/sample-properties/prop1.properties"/>
<property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true" />
<property name="order" value="-10"/>
</bean>
In another project, which I am working on, I have following config:
<bean id="propSource2" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath:/sample-properties/prop2.properties</value>
<value>classpath:/sample-properties/prop3.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="order" value="1000"/>
<property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true"/>
</bean>
Individually both configurations work fine on their own. The problem happens when I have some property in prop2.properties or prop3.properties that I want to use to override the value for the same property from prop1.properties. It always uses the value in prop1.properties. I have researched quite a bit but did not find anything useful.
Any suggestion is appreciated.
The answer is in #M.Deninum's comment.

spring replace bean name in config file with value from property file

I have a bean config file as follows
<bean id="myFactory" class="com.public.Factory">
<property name="dataSourceAdaptor" ref="${value.from.property file}Adaptor" />
</bean>
How do i achieve this.
I added the following to top of the config file
<util:properties id="myProperties" location="classpath:app.properties"/>
and then tried to refer to the value using ${} but i get an error stating ${value.from.property file}Adaptor is not a valid bean
I cannot put the whole name (xyzAdaptor) in the property file as the value in the property file is an institution and there are multiple adaptors for each institution.
for example xzyDisplayAdaptor, xyzProductAdaptor, xyzDatasourceAdaptor
The xyz client can change to say abc client and i want to be able to change the value in property file to abc and all the abc related beans will be injected.
The util:properties tag is used to create an instance of java.util.Properties. I think what you need is a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer.
e.g.,
<bean id="propertyPlaceholderConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer" scope="singleton">
<property name="searchSystemEnvironment" value="true" />
<property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true" />
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath:app.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
Try this with Spel:
<util:properties id="myProperties" location="classpath:app.properties"/>
<bean id="myFactory" class="com.public.Factory">
<property name="dataSourceAdaptor" ref="#{'${value.from.property file}'+'Adaptor'}" />
</bean>

deployment for different environments with maven and spring

I've got two properties files:
environment.properties:
- project.host.db3.database.name=oracle
application.properties:
- database.name=${project.host.db3.database.name}
The first one represents the environment variables and the second one the properties to be used in a spring project, in this configuration i try to set the environment.properties but of course it doesn't work:
<bean id="systemPropertiesLoader"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
<property name="targetObject" value="#{#systemProperties}" />
<property name="targetMethod" value="putAll" />
<property name="arguments">
<util:properties location="classpath:environment.properties" />
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="propertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
depends-on="systemPropertiesLoader">
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath:application.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
<!-- bean using database.name -->
Is it doable?, and if not, how do people have agnostic properties in their projects (like database.name), and only one file (war, jar, etc.) to be deployed?
Well, it seems it's doable for beans xml defined as long as you define your properties it like this:
<bean id="propertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
depends-on="systemPropertiesLoader">
But if you ever try to access the properties from a servlet:
this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("application.properties");
chances are you get this:
bad port configuration: ${project.host.db3.database.port}
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "${project.host.db3.database.port}"
In answer to yorkw, now i can have the same war to be deployed in several environments and configure the host with -Denvironment=development, so i can deploy a properties file for development, production, etc. and simply use:
<bean id="systemPropertiesLoader"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
<property name="targetObject" value="#{#systemProperties}" />
<property name="targetMethod" value="putAll" />
<property name="arguments">
<util:properties location="classpath:**${environment}/**environment.properties" />
</property>
</bean>
Otherwise i should have the application.properties substituted before deployment for every environment. I'm sure there are better solutions than this.

using a <jee:jndi-lookup string inside an instance of PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer

Environment: Windows server 2003, Spring 3.0, Tomcat 6
How can I reference a JNDI property inside a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer?
Specifically, I'm using JNDI to look up a java.lang.String that represents a path to
a property file needed by my webapp
<jee:jndi-lookup id="mypropsfile1" jndi-name="myPropsFile1" resource-ref="true"/>
<jee:jndi-lookup id="mypropsfile2" jndi-name="myPropsFile2" resource-ref="true"/>
<bean id="propertyConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true"/>
<property name="locations">
<array>
<value>how to use mypropsfile1 here ??</value>
<value>how to use mypropsfile2 here ??</value>
</array>
</property>
</bean>
My "jee:jndi-lookup"s are working AFAIK. My problem seems to be how to reference JNDI resources
inside the tag pair
Thanks in advance!
Mark
Your approach may not work Mark, this is because PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer is a BeanFactoryPostProcessor and gets invoked at the point when the bean definitions are created, whereas the jndi lookup happens post this stage.
I saw an older Spring forum discussion item, which has a recommendation for an approach of using a jndi lookup based properties file, which may suit your needs:
I believe you will have to do something like this . I haven't tested it but basically the setLocations method in PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer takes in an array of Resource(In our case UrlResource - http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/api/org/springframework/core/io/UrlResource.html) which in turn has a constructor with the file path .
<jee:jndi-lookup id="mypropsfile1" jndi-name="myPropsFile1" default-value="file:///C:/defaultPath" resource-ref="true"/>
<jee:jndi-lookup id="mypropsfile2" jndi-name="myPropsFile2" resource-ref="true"/>
<bean id="propertyConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer" depends-on="mypropsfile1,mypropsfile2">
<property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true"/>
<property name="locations">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.core.io.UrlResource">
<constructor-arg><ref bean="mypropsfile1"/></constructor-arg>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.core.io.UrlResource">
<constructor-arg><ref bean="myPropsFile2"/></constructor-arg>
</bean>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
I am not sure if there is a tag called in spring . Check this http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/beans.html#beans-introduction
I do this in Spring 3 using a map as follows:
<jee:jndi-lookup id="myJndiLookup" jndi-name="com.techtrip.spring.config.myJndiLookup"></jee:jndi-lookup>
<bean id="somethingWithMap" class="com.techtrip.foo.SomethingWithMap">
<property name="propMap">
<map>
<entry key="myJndiLookup" value-ref="myJndiLookup" />
</map>
</property>
</bean>
This works fine in most cases. You may run into trouble if you use AOP or something that wraps the bean in a Proxy class even if you set eager init correctly. A solution in that case is to directly access the somethingWithMap bean from the app context when needed using:
applicationContext.getBeansOfType(type, includeNonSingletons, allowEagerInit);
*Note that this will return a Map<String, T> where you can access the bean by name.
Not exactly for a single JNDI property, this is using a Properties reference instead, obtained through JNDI:
<!-- Lookup Properties reference through JNDI -->
<jee:jndi-lookup id="config-properties" jndi-name="resources/resource-name" resource-ref="true"/>
<bean id="propertyConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer" depends-on="config-properties">
<property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true"/>
<!-- Once the reference is obtained from JNDI, it can be used like any other reference -->
<property name="properties" ref="config-properties"></property>
</bean>

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