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Spring Boot - Passing JSON Properties from Command line

[Last Updated: Oct 18, 2018]

In Spring Boot JSON properties can be passed from command line by using one of the followings:

  • System property spring.application.json
  • Application argument --spring.application.json
  • Environment variable SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON

Example

Client Bean

package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;

@Component
public class ClientBean {
  @Value("${title}")
  private String title;
  @Value("${active}")
  private boolean active;

  @PostConstruct
  private void postConstruct() {
      System.out.printf("title= %s, active= %s%n", title, active);
  }
}

Main class

package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class ExampleMain {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
      SpringApplication.run(ExampleMain.class, args);
  }
}

Supplying JSON via System Properties

Using spring maven plugin:

boot-json-env-properties>mvn -q -Dspring.application.json="{\"title\":\"test\",\"active\":true}" spring-boot:run
title= test, active= true

Executing Jar

boot-json-env-properties>mvn -q package spring-boot:repackage
D:\boot-json-env-properties>java -Dspring.application.json="{\"title\":\"test\",\"active\":true}"  -jar target\boot-json-env-properties-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
title= test, active= true

Supplying JSON via application argument

D:\boot-json-env-properties>java -jar  target\boot-json-env-properties-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar --spring.application.json="{\"title\":\"test\",\"active\":true}"
title= test, active= true

Supplying JSON via Environment Variable

Setting environment variable from command line in windows:

D:\boot-json-env-properties>set SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON={"title":"test","active":true}
D:\boot-json-env-properties>mvn -q spring-boot:run
title= test, active= true
D:\boot-json-env-properties>java -jar  target\boot-json-env-properties-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
title= test, active= true

On Linux we can set environment variable from command line as:

$ export SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON="{\"title\":\"test\",\"active\":true}"

Example Project

Dependencies and Technologies Used:

  • Spring Boot 2.0.5.RELEASE
    Corresponding Spring Version 5.0.9.RELEASE
  • spring-boot-starter : Core starter, including auto-configuration support, logging and YAML.
  • JDK 1.8
  • Maven 3.5.4

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        • java
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            • logicbig
              • example
                • ClientBean.java
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