Spring .properties file: get element as an Array

Question

I\'m loading properties attributes from a .properties file using Spring as follows:

file: elements.properties
base.module.elementToSearch=1
base         


        

Answer 1

With a Spring Boot one can do the following:

application.properties

values[0]=abc
values[1]=def

Configuration class

import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

@Component
@ConfigurationProperties
public class Configuration {

    List values = new ArrayList<>();

    public List getValues() {
        return values;
    }

}

This is needed, without this class or without the values in class it is not working.

Spring Boot Application class

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.boot.CommandLineRunner;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

import java.util.List;

@SpringBootApplication
public class SpringBootConsoleApplication implements CommandLineRunner {

    private static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SpringBootConsoleApplication.class);

    // notice #{} is used instead of ${}
    @Value("#{configuration.values}")
    List values;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(SpringBootConsoleApplication.class, args);
    }

    @Override
    public void run(String... args) {
        LOG.info("values: {}", values);
    }

}