Access properties file programmatically with Spring?

Question

We use the code below to inject Spring beans with properties from a properties file.

Answer 1

This is the finest way I got it to work:

package your.package;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
import org.springframework.core.io.support.PropertiesLoaderUtils;

public class ApplicationProperties {

    private Properties properties;

    public ApplicationProperties() {
        // application.properties located at src/main/resource
        Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("/application.properties");
        try {
            this.properties = PropertiesLoaderUtils.loadProperties(resource);
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(ApplicationProperties.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
    }

    public String getProperty(String propertyName) {
        return this.properties.getProperty(propertyName);
    }
}