Setting active profile and config location from command line in spring boot

Question

I have a spring boot application.

I have three profiles in my application-> development, staging and production. So I have 3 files

1. ap

Answer 1

you can use the following command line:

java -jar -Dspring.profiles.active=[yourProfileName] target/[yourJar].jar

Answer 2

I think your problem is likely related to your spring.config.location not ending the path with "/".

Quote the docs

If spring.config.location contains directories (as opposed to files) they should end in / (and will be appended with the names generated from spring.config.name before being loaded).

http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-external-config-application-property-files

Answer 3

There are two different ways you can add/override spring properties on the command line.

Option 1: Java System Properties (VM Arguments)

It's important that the -D parameters are before your application.jar otherwise they are not recognized.

java -jar -Dspring.profiles.active=prod application.jar

Option 2: Program arguments

java -jar application.jar --spring.profiles.active=prod --spring.config.location=c:\config

Answer 4

I had to add this:

bootRun {
    String activeProfile =  System.properties['spring.profiles.active']
    String confLoc = System.properties['spring.config.location']
    systemProperty "spring.profiles.active", activeProfile
    systemProperty "spring.config.location", "file:$confLoc"
}

And now bootRun picks up the profile and config locations.

Thanks a lot @jst for the pointer.

Answer 5

-Dspring.profiles.active=staging -Dspring.config.location=C:\Config

is not correct.

should be:

--spring.profiles.active=staging --spring.config.location=C:\Config

Answer 6

If you use Gradle:

-Pspring.profiles.active=local