Spring Boot — Precedence Order Among Properties File | Code Factory
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Spring Boot lets you externalize your configuration so that you can work with the same application code in different environments. You can use Properties files, YAML files, Environment variables and Command-line arguments to externalize configuration. Property values can be injected directly into your beans by using the @Value
annotation, accessed through Spring’s Environment
abstraction, or be bound to structured objects through @ConfigurationProperties
.
Spring Boot uses a very particular PropertySource
order that is designed to allow sensible overriding of values.
Properties are considered in the following order :
- Devtools global settings properties on your home directory (
~/.spring-boot-devtools.properties
when devtools is active). @TestPropertySource
annotations on your tests.properties
attribute on your tests. Available on@SpringBootTest
and the test annotations for testing a particular slice of your application.- Command line arguments.
- Properties from
SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON
(inline JSON embedded in an environment variable or system property). ServletConfig
init parameters.ServletContext
init parameters.- JNDI attributes from
java:comp/env
. - Java System properties (
System.getProperties()
). - OS environment variables.
- A
RandomValuePropertySource
that has properties only inrandom.*
. - Profile-specific application properties outside of your packaged jar (
application-{profile}.properties
and YAML variants). - Profile-specific application properties packaged inside your jar (
application-{profile}.properties
and YAML variants). - Application properties outside of your packaged jar (
application.properties
and YAML variants). - Application properties packaged inside your jar (
application.properties
and YAML variants). @PropertySource
annotations on your@Configuration
classes.- Default properties (specified by setting
SpringApplication.setDefaultProperties
).