@PropertySource and UTF-8 properties file

Question

Is it possible, using @PropertySource annotation, to configure the encoding that has to be used to load the property file?

An example to clarify my prob

Answer 1

Or you can use the PropertiesFactoryBean that have the setEncoding method. Here an example from one of my projects

@Bean
public PropertiesFactoryBean cvlExternalProperties() {
    PropertiesFactoryBean res = new PropertiesFactoryBean();
    res.setFileEncoding("UTF-8");
    res.setLocation(new ClassPathResource("conf/external-test.properties"));
    return res;
}

and then you can use in the project with the following notation

@Value("#{cvlExternalProperties['myProperty']}")
private String p;