Reading a List from properties file and load with spring annotation @Value

Question

I want to have a list of values in a .properties file, ie:

my.list.of.strings=ABC,CDE,EFG

And to load it in my class directly, ie:

Answer 1

I think this is simpler for grabbing the array and stripping spaces:

@Value("#{'${my.array}'.replace(' ', '').split(',')}")
private List array;