Access properties file programmatically with Spring?

Question

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

Answer 1

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;
        }

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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);