Mapping list in Yaml to list of objects in Spring Boot

Question

In my Spring Boot app I have application yaml configuration file with following content  I want to have it injected as a Configuration object with list of channel configurations   available-payment-channels-list    xyz   123    channelConfigurations      -       name   Company X        companyBankAccount   1000200030004000      -       name   Company Y        companyBankAccount   1000200030004000    And  Configuration object I want to be populated with list of PaymentConfiguration objects        ConfigurationProperties prefix    available-payment-channels-list        Configuration      RefreshScope     public class AvailableChannelsConfiguration            private String xyz           private List lt ChannelConfiguration gt  channelConfigurations           public AvailableChannelsConfiguration String xyz  List lt ChannelConfiguration gt  channelConfigurations                this xyz   xyz              this channelConfigurations   channelConfigurations                     public AvailableChannelsConfiguration                            getters  setters            ConfigurationProperties prefix    available-payment-channels-list channelConfigurations            Configuration         public static class ChannelConfiguration               private String name              private String companyBankAccount               public ChannelConfiguration String name  String companyBankAccount                    this name   name                  this companyBankAccount   companyBankAccount                             public ChannelConfiguration                                   getters  setters                    I am injecting this as a normal bean with  Autowired constructor  Value of xyz is populated correctly  but when Spring tries to parse yaml into list of objects I am getting     nested exception is java lang IllegalStateException       Cannot convert value of type  java lang String  to required type          io example AvailableChannelsConfiguration ChannelConfiguration       for property  channelConfigurations 0    no matching editors or      conversion strategy found    Any clues what is wrong here

User · Answer

for me the fix was to add the injected class as inner class in the one annotated with  ConfigurationProperites  because I think you need  Component to inject properties

User · Answer

I had much issues with this one too  I finally found out what s the final deal    Referring to  Gokhan Oner answer  once you ve got your Service class and the POJO representing your object  your YAML config file nice and lean  if you use the annotation  ConfigurationProperties  you have to explicitly get the object for being able to use it  Like     ConfigurationProperties prefix    available-payment-channels-list      Configuration   lt -  you don t specificly need this  instead you re doing something else public class AvailableChannelsConfiguration        private String xyz        initialize arraylist     private List lt ChannelConfiguration gt  channelConfigurations   new ArrayList lt  gt          public AvailableChannelsConfiguration             for ChannelConfiguration current   this getChannelConfigurations                  System out println current getName       TADAAA                      public List lt ChannelConfiguration gt  getChannelConfigurations             return this channelConfigurations             public static class ChannelConfiguration           private String name          private String companyBankAccount             And then here you go  It s simple as hell  but we have to know that we must call the object getter  I was waiting at initialization  wishing the object was being built with the value but no  Hope it helps

User · Answer

I tried 2 solutions  both work   Solution 1   yml  available-users-list    configurations      -       username  eXvn817zDinHun2QLQ         password  IP2qP BQfWKJMVeY7Q       -       username  uwJlOl jP6 fZLMm0w         password  IP2qP BQKJLIMVeY7Q      LoginInfos java   ConfigurationProperties prefix    available-users-list    Configuration  Component  Data public class LoginInfos       private List lt LoginInfo gt  configurations        Data     public static class LoginInfo           private String username          private String password             List lt LoginInfos LoginInfo gt  list   loginInfos getConfigurations      Solution 2   yml  available-users-list      username   eXvn817zHBVn2QLQ     password   IfWKJLIMVeY7Q        username   uwJlOl g9jP6 0w     password   IP2qWKJLIMVeY7Q         Java   Value    available-users-listt    String testList   ObjectMapper mapper   new ObjectMapper    LoginInfos LoginInfo   array   mapper readValue testList  LoginInfos LoginInfo   class

User · Answer

I had referenced this article and many others and did not find a clear cut concise response to help   I am offering my discovery  arrived at with some references from this thread  in the following   Spring-Boot version   1 3 5 RELEASE  Spring-Core version   4 2 6 RELEASE  Dependency Management   Brixton SR1  The following is the pertinent yaml excerpt   tools    toolList      -        name  jira       matchUrl  http   someJiraUrl     -        name  bamboo       matchUrl  http   someBambooUrl   I created a Tools class    Component  ConfigurationProperties prefix    tools   public class Tools      private List lt Tool gt  toolList   new ArrayList lt  gt         public Tools            empty ctor            public List lt Tool gt  getToolList            return toolList             public void setToolList List lt Tool gt  tools          this toolList   tools            I created a Tool class    Component public class Tool      private String name      private String matchUrl       public Tool            empty ctor            public String getName            return name             public void setName String name          this name  name            public String getMatchUrl            return matchUrl             public void setMatchUrl String matchUrl          this matchUrl  matchUrl              Override     public String toString            StringBuffer sb   new StringBuffer            String ls   System lineSeparator            sb append ls           sb append  name       name           sb append ls           sb append  matchUrl       matchUrl           sb append ls             I used this combination in another class through  Autowired   Component public class SomeOtherClass      private Logger logger   LoggerFactory getLogger SomeOtherClass class        Autowired    private Tools tools         excluded non-related code         PostConstruct    private void init           List lt Tool gt   toolList   tools getToolList           if toolList size    gt  0              for Tool t  toolList                  logger info t toString                          else             logger info       -----     tool size is zero     -----                                excluded non-related code         And in my logs the name and matching url s were logged   This was developed on another machine and thus I had to retype all of the above so please forgive me in advance if I inadvertently mistyped   I hope this consolidation comment is helpful to many and I thank the previous contributors to this thread

User · Answer

You don t need constructors You don t need to annotate inner classes RefreshScope have some problems when using with  Configuration  Please see this github issue   Change your class like this    ConfigurationProperties prefix    available-payment-channels-list    Configuration public class AvailableChannelsConfiguration        private String xyz      private List lt ChannelConfiguration gt  channelConfigurations          getters  setters      public static class ChannelConfiguration           private String name          private String companyBankAccount              getters  setters

User · Answer

The reason must be somewhere else  Using only Spring Boot 1 2 2 out of the box with no configuration  it Just Works  Have a look at this repo - can you get it to break   https   github com konrad-garus so-yaml  Are you sure the YAML file looks exactly the way you pasted  No extra whitespace  characters  special characters  mis-indentation or something of that sort  Is it possible you have another file elsewhere in the search path that is used instead of the one you re expecting

[java] Mapping list in Yaml to list of objects in Spring Boot

Examples related to java

Examples related to spring

Examples related to spring-boot

Examples related to yaml