Spring Boot application.properties value not populating

Question

I have a very simple Spring Boot app that I\'m trying to get working with some externalised configuration. I\'ve tried to follow the information on the spring boot documenta

Answer 1

The user "geoand" is right in pointing out the reasons here and giving a solution. But a better approach is to encapsulate your configuration into a separate class, say SystemContiguration java class and then inject this class into what ever services you want to use those fields.

Your current way(@grahamrb) of reading config values directly into services is error prone and would cause refactoring headaches if config setting name is changed.