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Question

I\'m fairly new to spring so excuse me if this is a dumb question. When I try to launch a program I get the following error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could

Answer 1

I know It is an old message , but i want to add my case.

If you use more than one profile(dev,test,prod...), check your execute profile.

Answer 2

in my case, the war file generated didn't pick up the properties file so had to clean install again in IntelliJ editor.

Answer 3

Hopefully it will be still helpful, the application.properties (or application.yml) file must be in both the paths:

• src/main/resource/config
• src/test/resource/config

containing the same property you are referring

Answer 4

For properties that need to be managed outside of the WAR:

<context:property-placeholder location="file:///C:/application.yml"/>

For example if inside application.yml are name and id

Then you can create bean in runtime inside xml spring

<bean id="id1" class="my.class.Item">
    <property name="name" value="${name}"/>
    <property name="id" value="${id}"/>
</bean>

Answer 5

If you are using Spring 3.1 and above, you can use something like...

@Configuration
@PropertySource("classpath:foo.properties")
public class PropertiesWithJavaConfig {

@Bean
public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer propertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer() {
  return new PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer();
}
}

You can also go by the xml configuration like...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd">

  <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:foo.properties" />

  </beans>

In earlier versions.

Answer 6

You are not reading the properties file correctly. The propertySource should pass the parameter as: file:appclient.properties or classpath:appclient.properties. Change the annotation to:

@PropertySource(value={"classpath:appclient.properties"})

However I don't know what your PropertiesConfig file contains, as you're importing that also. Ideally the @PropertySource annotation should have been kept there.