Spring profiles and testing

Question

I\'ve got a web application where I have the typical problem that it requires different configuration files for different environments. Some configuration is placed in the a

Answer 1

Can I recommend doing it this way, define your test like this:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@TestExecutionListeners({
    TestPreperationExecutionListener.class
    })
@Transactional
@ActiveProfiles(profiles = "localtest")
@ContextConfiguration
public class TestContext {

  @Test
  public void testContext(){

  }

  @Configuration
  @PropertySource("classpath:/myprops.properties")
  @ImportResource({"classpath:context.xml" })
  public static class MyContextConfiguration{

  }
}

with the following content in myprops.properties file:

spring.profiles.active=localtest

With this your second properties file should get resolved:

META-INF/spring/config_${spring.profiles.active}.properties