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Spring Boot - Selecting Profile configuration in YAML property file

[Last Updated: Jul 27, 2017]

From YAML property files, Spring Boot can select different set of properties which belong to a specific profile, given that if the multiple YAML documents contain spring.profiles keys assigned to a profile name.

According to YAML specification, multiple YAML documents can be added in a single file separated by '---' (check out this tutorials as well).

Example

src/main/resources/application.yml

refresh:
   rate: 5
---
spring:
   profiles: dev, test
refresh:
   rate: 10
---
spring:
   profiles: prod
refresh:
   rate: 8

The Main class

@SpringBootConfiguration
public class ExampleMain {
    @Bean
    MyBean myBean() {
        return new MyBean();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
        ConfigurableApplicationContext context = SpringApplication.run(ExampleMain.class, args);

        String[] profiles = context.getEnvironment().getActiveProfiles();
        System.out.println("Active Profiles: "+ Arrays.toString(profiles));

        MyBean myBean = context.getBean(MyBean.class);
        myBean.doSomething();
    }

    private static class MyBean {

        @Value("${refresh.rate}")
        private int refreshRate;

        public void doSomething() {
            System.out.printf("Refresh Rate : %s%n", refreshRate);
        }
    }
}

Output

mvn -q spring-boot:run
2017-07-27 16:21:21.466  INFO 10572 --- [           main] s.c.a.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext : Refreshing org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext@7a52f2a2: startup date [Thu Jul 27 16:21:21 CDT 2017]; root of context hierarchy
Active Profiles: []
Refresh Rate : 5
2017-07-27 16:21:21.619 INFO 10572 --- [ Thread-1] s.c.a.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext : Closing org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext@7a52f2a2: startup date [Thu Jul 27 16:21:21 CDT 2017]; root of context hierarchy

In above example, we didn't specify any profile during startup, so default value of 'refresh.rate' was used.

Let's select profile 'dev' by specifying the value for 'spring.profiles.active' property:

Output

mvn -q spring-boot:run -Dspring.profiles.active=dev
2017-07-27 16:20:05.705  INFO 15776 --- [           main] s.c.a.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext : Refreshing org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext@78047b92: startup date [Thu Jul 27 16:20:05 CDT 2017]; root of context hierarchy
Active Profiles: [dev]
Refresh Rate : 10
2017-07-27 16:20:05.927 INFO 15776 --- [ Thread-1] s.c.a.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext : Closing org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext@78047b92: startup date [Thu Jul 27 16:20:05 CDT 2017]; root of context hierarchy

Example Project

Dependencies and Technologies Used:

  • Spring Boot 1.5.6.RELEASE
    Corresponding Spring Version 4.3.10.RELEASE
  • spring-boot-starter : Core starter, including auto-configuration support, logging and YAML.
  • JDK 1.8
  • Maven 3.3.9

Select Profile configurations from application.yml Select All Download
  • profile-config-in-yml
    • src
      • main
        • java
          • com
            • logicbig
              • example
        • resources
          • application.yml

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