I have a Spring config file with one bean. The bean has 2 properties that are populated from a properties file. I am using the following config in my Spring file to copy the values in but it does not seem to be working.
<context:property-placeholder ignore-resource-not-found="true"
system-properties-mode="NEVER"
location="classpath:my.properties"/>
The weird thing is - this has worked before. Can anyone tell me why this would not be successful in copying the properties across?
I know the infomation given is scant. I'll add elaborate if needs be.
Try the classpath*: prefix. And try giving the relative path to the conf file, and make sure it is really on the classpath (note that WEB-INF is not on the classpath - the classpath of a webapp starts at WEB-INf/classes (and lib))
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In which class in the source code of spring-boot or spring is the application.yml file or application.properties processed?
For spring boot (version 2.x) the application properties are loaded from the environment into the context via a PropertySourceLoader.
In for example the spring-boot-2.6.3.jar we can find the following file:
META-INF/spring.factories
# PropertySource Loaders
org.springframework.boot.env.PropertySourceLoader=\
org.springframework.boot.env.PropertiesPropertySourceLoader,\
org.springframework.boot.env.YamlPropertySourceLoader
Where PropertiesPropertySourceLoader loads .properties and .xml files, and YamlPropertySourceLoader loads .yml and .yaml.
These are loaded with the SpringFactoriesLoader, which we can see in action in org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigFileApplicationListener (deprecated) or org.springframework.boot.context.config.StandardConfigDataLocationResolver (via ConfigDataEnvironmentPostProcessor -> ConfigDataEnvironment -> ConfigDataLocationResolvers) :
this.propertySourceLoaders = SpringFactoriesLoader.loadFactories(PropertySourceLoader.class,
getClass().getClassLoader());
You can read in the ConfigFileApplicationListener JavaDoc that the properties are indeed loaded with this class:
EnvironmentPostProcessor that configures the context environment by loading properties from well known file locations. By default properties will be loaded from 'application.properties' and/or 'application.yml' files in the following locations:
file:./config/
file:./config/*/
file:./
classpath:config/
classpath:
...
If you're interested in context loading from the environment in spring(boot), I suggest you setup your project with maven, download the sources jars, and have a look around in the mentioned factories file. You will find more relevant code in the org.springframework.boot.env and org.springframework.boot.context (config and properties) packages.
You can find your application.yml or application.properties at the src/main/resources. You can have as many as possible configurations for your spring boot application for every case. Lets assume that you have 3 local-profiles like demo, production and server, so you made 3 configuration and assumingyou set for active profile the demo at the application.yml . I hope you get the idea. Its the first thing that actually is running before the springboot is up.
Please look the officials docs !
I am running hibernate search with spring boot. I have written a working configuration for my application. How ever, i want to externalize my configuration and use ./config/hibernate.properties instead of src/main/resources/hibernate.properties. After copying my properties file to the desired location, i am getting and exception:
nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [hibernate.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist
Anyone with any idea on how i should tell spring to read my configuration file?
Move your configuration to an src/main/resources/application.properties file and prepend spring.jpa.properties. everywhere, so hibernate.dialect will become spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect, for example.
Then you can use Spring features to move your configuration wherever you want. To move it to ./config/application.properties I suppose you will have to add #PropertySource("./config/application.properties") to one of your #Configuration classes, or something similar.
I'm sure you can also keep the hibernate configuration in a separate file (separate from the rest of your application configuration).
See https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-external-config.html for more details about externalizing configuration in Spring Boot.
For some reason, it seems hibernate-search will prevent application from starting as long as a hibernate.properties configuration file does not exist. After trying for a while without success, i found a work around for my problem.
First, i created an empty hibernate.properties file and place it under src/main/resources.
Secondly, i moved all hibernate-search configurations to application.properties as follows:
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.search.default.indexmanager = elasticsearch
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.search.default.elasticsearch.host = http://my-server.com
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.search.default.elasticsearch.index_schema_management_strategy = CREATE
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.search.default.elasticsearch.required_index_status = yellow
This way, the application will start and spring will get all configuration from the externalized configuration as documented here.
I have a spring-boot application with annotations instead of context.xml.
In my src/main/resources folder I have: application-dev.properties and application-test.properties.
which work perfectly for different profiles (while running with VM option like -Dspring.profiles.active=dev)
Now I need to externalize this properties with file in /opt/software/Tomcat8/conf/app.properties
Some props override each other, some don't.
in Tomcat config context.xml I say:
<Environment name="app.properties"
value="file:///opt/software/Tomcat8/conf/app.properties"
type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
How to use it via JNDI in my application configuring app with no XML but annotations in Spring-bot application class?
I need it to have priority to inner jar properties according to
Link to Spring-boot.doc
One solution I found was to have the vm argument -Dloader.path with the external path when executing the application. Please keep in mind if you're using a fat jar you may need to create the package in Zip model, otherwise it will not work.
I use maven. My web application contains two modules and each has it's own spring context. First is packed to jar, the second one to war. The second one uses first module's jar and calls it's methods.
I need to add property file, which will be used by first module (via spring context). The main issue is that I should be able to access/edit this property file after war deployment.
How can I provide such a property file, that will be used in first jar module and can be changed after war module deployment?
Thanks.
Sorry, don't see the problem, you need to describe that better. From what I understood this is the way to go:
place a.properties in src/main/resources in the JAR module
use a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer to make the properties available in the Spring context
it'll be packed in root of the JAR
the JAR ends up in WEB-INF/lib of the WAR which again is "root of the classpath" so to speak
Update, 2013-06-09
(question was updated based on comments to initial answer above)
Essentially what you seem to be looking for (still not quite sure) is how to load properties from a properties file that is not packaged with your WAR/JAR.
In this case you can skip all of the above steps except 2.
Use a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer and specify the location of the file as classpath*:a.properties (see below)
Place a.properties anywhere on the classpath outside the WAR file.
Warning! Of course you can now edit the properties independently from releasing the WAR file but since Spring initializes the beans on application start and since all beans are singletons by default changes to the properties file won't become effective until you restart the app.
XML example
<bean class="....PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="location" value="classpath*:a.properties" />
I have a web-app, which loads a application-context files from many locations.
One of the application-context file is in a .jar file (this jar is present in WEB-INF/lib).
This application-context has an entry like this:
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:META-INF/spring/default.app.properties" ignore-unresolvable="true" ignore-resource-not-found="true"/>
But the default.app.properties is never found. I keep getting errors about
Could not resolve placeholder 'db.driver' - something that is defined in default.app.properties and referred in application-context via ${db.driver}
It is almost as if property-placeholder is being ignored. I tried giving absolute path to my default.app.properties too.. even that wouldn't work.
Have you solved this problem? I've encoutered the same recently. My solution is simple and unlikely to be the case but... in my case there were two types of placeholders of different types. One type was configured using
<context:property-placeholder/>
the other type was configured as a bean of type ServletContextPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer. Removing one type of placeholder solved the problem.
Because Spring allow exist only one <context:property-placeholder/>, When Spring find a <context:property-placeholder/>,it will ignore the remains. So put all the properties conf in one place.
reference to :http://www.iteye.com/topic/1131688