Programmatic access to properties created by property-placeholder

Question

I\'m reading properties file using context:property-placeholder. How can I access them programatically (@Value doesn\'t work - I d

Answer 1

We use the following approach to access properties for our applications

Then you have the luxury of just autowiring properties into beans using a qualifier.

@Component
public class PropertyAccessBean {

    private Properties properties;

    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("appProperties")
    public void setProperties(Properties properties) {
        this.properties = properties;
    }

    public void doSomething() {
        String property = properties.getProperty("code.version");
    }

}

If you have more complex properties you can still use ignore-resource-not-found and ignore-unresolvable. We use this approach to externalise some of our application settings.