[spring] Access properties file programmatically with Spring?

We use the code below to inject Spring beans with properties from a properties file.

<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    <property name="locations" value="classpath:/my.properties"/>
</bean>

<bean id="blah" class="abc">
    <property name="path" value="${the.path}"/>
</bean>

Is there a way we can access the properties programmatically? I'm trying to do some code without dependency injection. So I'd like to just have some code like this:

PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer props = new PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer();
props.load("classpath:/my.properties");
props.get("path");

I have done this and it has worked.

Properties props = PropertiesLoaderUtils.loadAllProperties("my.properties");
PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer props2 = new PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer();
props2.setProperties(props);

That should work.

This post also explatis howto access properties: http://maciej-miklas.blogspot.de/2013/07/spring-31-programmatic-access-to.html

You can access properties loaded by spring property-placeholder over such spring bean:

@Named
public class PropertiesAccessor {

    private final AbstractBeanFactory beanFactory;

    private final Map<String,String> cache = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();

    @Inject
    protected PropertiesAccessor(AbstractBeanFactory beanFactory) {
        this.beanFactory = beanFactory;
    }

    public  String getProperty(String key) {
        if(cache.containsKey(key)){
            return cache.get(key);
        }

        String foundProp = null;
        try {
            foundProp = beanFactory.resolveEmbeddedValue("${" + key.trim() + "}");
            cache.put(key,foundProp);
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
           // ok - property was not found
        }

        return foundProp;
    }
}

Please use the below code in your spring configuration file to load the file from class path of your application

 <context:property-placeholder
    ignore-unresolvable="true" ignore-resource-not-found="false" location="classpath:property-file-name" />

I know this is an old thread, however, this topic in my opinion becomes of great importance for those using the functional approach for all those usecases where you need a microservice that loads "instantly" and therefore you avoid using annotations. The problem that remained unsolved was to load eventually the environment variables which I had in my application.yml.

public class AppPropsLoader {
public static Properties load() {
  var propPholderConfig = new PropertySourcesPlaceHolderConfigurer();
  var yaml = new YamlPropertiesFactoryBean();
  ClassPathResource resource = new ClassPathResource("application.yml");
  Objects.requireNonNull(resource, "File application.yml does not exist");
  yaml.setResources(resource);
  Objects.requireNonNull(yaml.getObject(), "Configuration cannot be null");
  propPholderConfig.postProcessBeanFactory(new DefaultListableBeanFactory());
  propPholderConfig.setProperties(yaml.getObject());
  PropertySources appliedPropertySources = 
  propPholderConfig.getAppliedPropertySources();
  var resolver = new PropertySourcesPlaceholderResolver(appliedPropertySources);
  Properties resolvedProps = new Properties();
  for (Map.Entry<Object, Object> prop: yaml.getObject().entrySet()) {
    resolvedProps.setProperty((String)prop.getKey(), 
      getPropertyValue(resolver.resolvePlaceHolders(prop.getValue()));
  }
  return resolvedProps;
}
 static String getPropertyValue(Object prop) {
   var val = String.valueOf(prop);
   Pattern p = Pattern.compile("^(\\$\\{)([a-zA-Z0-9-._]+)(\\})$");
   Matcher m = p.matcher(val);
   if(m.matches()) {
    return System.getEnv(m.group(2));
  }
   return val;
 }
}

Here is another sample .

XmlBeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(new FileSystemResource("beans.xml"));
PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer cfg = new PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer();
cfg.setLocation(new FileSystemResource("jdbc.properties"));
cfg.postProcessBeanFactory(factory);

You can get your properties through Environment class. As documentation stands:

Properties play an important role in almost all applications, and may originate from a variety of sources: properties files, JVM system properties, system environment variables, JNDI, servlet context parameters, ad-hoc Properties objects, Maps, and so on. The role of the environment object with relation to properties is to provide the user with a convenient service interface for configuring property sources and resolving properties from them.

Having Environment as a env variable, simply call:

env.resolvePlaceholders("${your-property:default-value}")

You can get your 'raw' properties through:

env.getProperty("your-property")

It will search through all properties source that spring has registered.

You can either obtain Environment through:

• inject ApplicationContext by implementing ApplicationContextAware and then call getEnvironment() on context
• implement EnvironmentAware.

It's obtain through implementation of a class because properties are resolved on early stage of application startup, as they may be required for bean construction.

Read more on documentation: spring Environment documentation

create .properties file in classpath of your project and add path configuration in xml`<context:property-placeholder location="classpath*:/*.properties" />`

in servlet-context.xml after that u can directly use your file everywhere

This help me:

ApplicationContextUtils.getApplicationContext().getEnvironment()

This is the finest way I got it to work:

package your.package;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
import org.springframework.core.io.support.PropertiesLoaderUtils;

public class ApplicationProperties {

    private Properties properties;

    public ApplicationProperties() {
        // application.properties located at src/main/resource
        Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("/application.properties");
        try {
            this.properties = PropertiesLoaderUtils.loadProperties(resource);
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(ApplicationProperties.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
    }

    public String getProperty(String propertyName) {
        return this.properties.getProperty(propertyName);
    }
}

This will resolve any nested properties.

public class Environment extends PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer {

/**
 * Map that hold all the properties.
 */
private Map<String, String> propertiesMap; 

/**
 * Iterate through all the Property keys and build a Map, resolve all the nested values before building the map.
 */
@Override
protected void processProperties(ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory, Properties props) throws BeansException {
    super.processProperties(beanFactory, props);

    propertiesMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
    for (Object key : props.keySet()) {
        String keyStr = key.toString();
        String valueStr = beanFactory.resolveEmbeddedValue(placeholderPrefix + keyStr.trim() + DEFAULT_PLACEHOLDER_SUFFIX);
        propertiesMap.put(keyStr, valueStr);
    }
} 

/**
 * This method gets the String value for a given String key for the property files.
 * 
 * @param name - Key for which the value needs to be retrieved.
 * @return Value
 */
public String getProperty(String name) {
    return propertiesMap.get(name).toString();
}

CREDIT: Programmatic access to properties in Spring without re-reading the properties file

I've found a nice implementation of accessing the properties programmatically in spring without reloading the same properties that spring has already loaded. [Also, It is not required to hardcode the property file location in the source]

With these changes, the code looks cleaner & more maintainable.

The concept is pretty simple. Just extend the spring default property placeholder (PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer) and capture the properties it loads in the local variable

public class SpringPropertiesUtil extends PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer {

    private static Map<String, String> propertiesMap;
    // Default as in PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer
    private int springSystemPropertiesMode = SYSTEM_PROPERTIES_MODE_FALLBACK;

    @Override
    public void setSystemPropertiesMode(int systemPropertiesMode) {
        super.setSystemPropertiesMode(systemPropertiesMode);
        springSystemPropertiesMode = systemPropertiesMode;
    }

    @Override
    protected void processProperties(ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory, Properties props) throws BeansException {
        super.processProperties(beanFactory, props);

        propertiesMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
        for (Object key : props.keySet()) {
            String keyStr = key.toString();
            String valueStr = resolvePlaceholder(keyStr, props, springSystemPropertiesMode);
            propertiesMap.put(keyStr, valueStr);
        }
    }

    public static String getProperty(String name) {
        return propertiesMap.get(name).toString();
    }

}

Usage Example

SpringPropertiesUtil.getProperty("myProperty")

Spring configuration changes

<bean id="placeholderConfigMM" class="SpringPropertiesUtil">
    <property name="systemPropertiesModeName" value="SYSTEM_PROPERTIES_MODE_OVERRIDE"/>
    <property name="locations">
    <list>
        <value>classpath:myproperties.properties</value>
    </list>
    </property>
</bean>

Hope this helps to solve the problems you have

If all you want to do is access placeholder value from code, there is the @Value annotation:

@Value("${settings.some.property}")
String someValue;

To access placeholders From SPEL use this syntax:

#('${settings.some.property}')

To expose configuration to views that have SPEL turned off, one can use this trick:

package com.my.app;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryAware;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
public class PropertyPlaceholderExposer implements Map<String, String>, BeanFactoryAware {  
    ConfigurableBeanFactory beanFactory; 

    @Override
    public void setBeanFactory(BeanFactory beanFactory) {
        this.beanFactory = (ConfigurableBeanFactory) beanFactory;
    }

    protected String resolveProperty(String name) {
        String rv = beanFactory.resolveEmbeddedValue("${" + name + "}");

        return rv;
    }

    @Override
    public String get(Object key) {
        return resolveProperty(key.toString());
    }

    @Override
    public boolean containsKey(Object key) {
        try {
            resolveProperty(key.toString());
            return true;
        }
        catch(Exception e) {
            return false;
        }
    }

    @Override public boolean isEmpty() { return false; }
    @Override public Set<String> keySet() { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
    @Override public Set<java.util.Map.Entry<String, String>> entrySet() { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
    @Override public Collection<String> values() { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
    @Override public int size() { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
    @Override public boolean containsValue(Object value) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
    @Override public void clear() { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
    @Override public String put(String key, String value) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
    @Override public String remove(Object key) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
    @Override public void putAll(Map<? extends String, ? extends String> t) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
}

And then use the exposer to expose properties to a view:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver" id="tilesViewResolver">
    <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView"/>
    <property name="attributesMap">
        <map>
            <entry key="config">
                <bean class="com.my.app.PropertyPlaceholderExposer" />
            </entry>
        </map>
    </property>
</bean>

Then in view, use the exposed properties like this:

${config['settings.some.property']}

This solution has the advantage that you can rely on standard placeholder implementation injected by the context:property-placeholder tag.

Now as a final note, if you really need a to capture all placeholder properties and their values, you have to pipe them through StringValueResolver to make sure that placeholders work inside the property values as expected. The following code will do that.

package com.my.app;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.Set;

import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer;
import org.springframework.util.StringValueResolver;

public class AppConfig extends PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer implements Map<String, String> {

    Map<String, String> props = new HashMap<String, String>();

    @Override
    protected void processProperties(ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory, Properties props)
            throws BeansException {

        this.props.clear();
        for (Entry<Object, Object> e: props.entrySet())
            this.props.put(e.getKey().toString(), e.getValue().toString());

        super.processProperties(beanFactory, props);
    }

    @Override
    protected void doProcessProperties(ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactoryToProcess,
            StringValueResolver valueResolver) {

        super.doProcessProperties(beanFactoryToProcess, valueResolver);

        for(Entry<String, String> e: props.entrySet())
            e.setValue(valueResolver.resolveStringValue(e.getValue()));
    }

    // Implement map interface to access stored properties
    @Override public Set<String> keySet() { return props.keySet(); }
    @Override public Set<java.util.Map.Entry<String, String>> entrySet() { return props.entrySet(); }
    @Override public Collection<String> values() { return props.values(); }
    @Override public int size() { return props.size(); }
    @Override public boolean isEmpty() { return props.isEmpty(); }
    @Override public boolean containsValue(Object value) { return props.containsValue(value); }
    @Override public boolean containsKey(Object key) { return props.containsKey(key); }
    @Override public String get(Object key) { return props.get(key); }
    @Override public void clear() { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
    @Override public String put(String key, String value) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
    @Override public String remove(Object key) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
    @Override public void putAll(Map<? extends String, ? extends String> t) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
}

As you know the newer versions of Spring don't use the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer and now use another nightmarish construct called PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer. If you're trying to get resolved properties from code, and wish the Spring team gave us a way to do this a long time ago, then vote this post up! ... Because this is how you do it the new way:

Subclass PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer:

public class SpringPropertyExposer extends PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer {

    private ConfigurableListableBeanFactory factory;

    /**
     * Save off the bean factory so we can use it later to resolve properties
     */
    @Override
    protected void processProperties(ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactoryToProcess,
            final ConfigurablePropertyResolver propertyResolver) throws BeansException {
        super.processProperties(beanFactoryToProcess, propertyResolver);

        if (beanFactoryToProcess.hasEmbeddedValueResolver()) {
            logger.debug("Value resolver exists.");
            factory = beanFactoryToProcess;
        }
        else {
            logger.error("No existing embedded value resolver.");
        }
    }

    public String getProperty(String name) {
        Object propertyValue = factory.resolveEmbeddedValue(this.placeholderPrefix + name + this.placeholderSuffix);
        return propertyValue.toString();
    }
}

To use it, make sure to use your subclass in your @Configuration and save off a reference to it for later use.

@Configuration
@ComponentScan
public class PropertiesConfig {

    public static SpringPropertyExposer commonEnvConfig;

    @Bean(name="commonConfig")
    public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer commonConfig() throws IOException {
        commonEnvConfig = new SpringPropertyExposer(); //This is a subclass of the return type.
        PropertiesFactoryBean commonConfig = new PropertiesFactoryBean();
        commonConfig.setLocation(new ClassPathResource("META-INF/spring/config.properties"));
        try {
            commonConfig.afterPropertiesSet();
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            throw e;
        }
        commonEnvConfig.setProperties(commonConfig.getObject());
        return commonEnvConfig;
    }
}

Usage:

Object value = PropertiesConfig.commonEnvConfig.getProperty("key.subkey");

Create a class like below

    package com.tmghealth.common.util;

    import java.util.Properties;

    import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;

    import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory;

    import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer;

    import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

    import org.springframework.context.annotation.PropertySource;

    import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;


    @Component
    @Configuration
    @PropertySource(value = { "classpath:/spring/server-urls.properties" })
    public class PropertiesReader extends PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer {

        @Override
        protected void processProperties(
                ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory, Properties props)
                throws BeansException {
            super.processProperties(beanFactory, props);

        }

    }

Then wherever you want to access a property use

    @Autowired
        private Environment environment;
    and getters and setters then access using 

    environment.getProperty(envName
                    + ".letter.fdi.letterdetails.restServiceUrl");

-- write getters and setters in the accessor class

    public Environment getEnvironment() {
            return environment;
        }`enter code here`

        public void setEnvironment(Environment environment) {
            this.environment = environment;
        }

You can also use either the spring utils, or load properties via the PropertiesFactoryBean.

<util:properties id="myProps" location="classpath:com/foo/myprops.properties"/>

or:

<bean id="myProps" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
  <property name="location" value="classpath:com/foo/myprops.properties"/>
</bean>

Then you can pick them up in your application with:

@Resource(name = "myProps")
private Properties myProps;

and additionally use these properties in your config:

<context:property-placeholder properties-ref="myProps"/>

This is also in the docs: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/htmlsingle/#xsd-config-body-schemas-util-properties