How can I reload properties file in Spring 4 using annotations?

Question

I have a simple application where i am using several properties-files to fetch content edited by other users (links to sites etc).

The class where i load the propert

Answer 1

the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer need to be override to reload the new Properties

You need to rewrite processProperties method to make the StringValueResolver which contains the properties became to loadable. This is my code

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;
import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer;
import org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper;
import org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.PlaceholderResolver;
import org.springframework.util.StringValueResolver;


public class ReloadablePropertyPlaceholderConfigurer 
                                    extends PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer {

    private ReloadablePlaceholderResolvingStringValueResolver reloadableValueResolver;


    public void reloadProperties() throws IOException {
        Properties props = mergeProperties();
        this.reloadableValueResolver.refreshProperties(props);
    }


    @Override
    protected void processProperties(ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactoryToProcess, Properties props)
            throws BeansException {
        this.reloadableValueResolver = new ReloadablePlaceholderResolvingStringValueResolver(props);
        StringValueResolver valueResolver = this.reloadableValueResolver;
        this.doProcessProperties(beanFactoryToProcess, valueResolver);
    }


    private class ReloadablePlaceholderResolvingStringValueResolver 
            implements StringValueResolver {

        private final PropertyPlaceholderHelper helper;
        private final ReloadablePropertyPlaceholderConfigurerResolver resolver;

        public ReloadablePlaceholderResolvingStringValueResolver(Properties props) {
            this.helper = new PropertyPlaceholderHelper(placeholderPrefix, placeholderSuffix, valueSeparator, ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders);
            this.resolver = new ReloadablePropertyPlaceholderConfigurerResolver(props);
        }

        @Override
        public String resolveStringValue(String strVal) throws BeansException {
            String value = this.helper.replacePlaceholders(strVal, this.resolver);
            return (value.equals(nullValue) ? null : value);
        }

        private void refreshProperties(Properties props){
            this.resolver.setProps(props);
        }
    }

    private class ReloadablePropertyPlaceholderConfigurerResolver 
            implements PlaceholderResolver {

        private Properties props;
        private ReloadablePropertyPlaceholderConfigurerResolver(Properties props) {
            this.props = props;
        }

        @Override
        public String resolvePlaceholder(String placeholderName) {
            return ReloadablePropertyPlaceholderConfigurer.this.resolvePlaceholder(placeholderName, props, SYSTEM_PROPERTIES_MODE_FALLBACK);
        }

        public void setProps(Properties props) {
            this.props = props;
        }
   }
}

here is the configure for properties-config.xml .all of those properties can be reload in runtime as a prototype bean.

    
    
        
            
            classpath:spring/dbconfig.properties
            
            classpath:spring/app.properties
            
            classpath:xxxx.properties
        
    
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