Spring Boot: @Value returns always null

Question

I would like to use a value from application.properties file in order to pass it in the method in another class. The problem is that the value returns always

Answer 1

The other answers are probably correct for the OP.

However, I ran into the same symptoms (@Value-annotated fields being null) but with a different underlying issue:

import com.google.api.client.util.Value;

Ensure that you are importing the correct @Value annotation class! Especially with the convenience of IDEs nowadays, this is a VERY easy mistake to make (I am using IntelliJ, and if you auto-import too quickly without reading WHAT you are auto-importing, you might waste a few hours like I did).

Of course, the correct class to import is:

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;