How to override application.properties during production in Spring-Boot?

Question

I\'m using spring boot and application.properties to select a database during development by @Configuration @Profile(\"dev\").

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Answer 1

UPDATE: this is a bug in spring see here

the application properties outside of your jar must be in one of the following places, then everything should work.

21.2 Application property files
SpringApplication will load properties from application.properties files in the following    locations and add them to the Spring Environment:

A /config subdir of the current directory.
The current directory
A classpath /config package
The classpath root

so e.g. this should work, when you dont want to specify cmd line args and you dont use spring.config.location in your base app.props:

d:\yourExecutable.jar
d:\application.properties

or

d:\yourExecutable.jar
d:\config\application.properties

see spring external config doc

Update: you may use \@Configuration together with \@PropertySource. according to the doc here you can specify resources anywhere. you should just be careful, when which config is loaded to make sure your production one wins.