How to set spring boot active profile in Gradle 4.7

Question

Overall:
I'm trying to run gradle build task for a specific spring profile but I've got an error in passing following test:

au.com.mnpd.security.JwtTokenUtilTest > generateToken_succeeds FAILED
java.lang.IllegalStateException
    Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.UnsatisfiedDependencyException
        Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.UnsatisfiedDependencyException
            Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.UnsatisfiedDependencyException
                Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException
                    Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

The test is using some properties from spring development profile (located in application-development.yaml). But I couldn't find any way to pass active profile to gradle build command. I tried followings but again the same issue:

- gradlew -Dspring.profiles.active=development build

- gradlew -Pdevelopment build

Question:
Is there anyway to pass active profile to gradle (v 4.7) build task like what is applicable for bootRun task as follows:

bootRun {
        bootRun.systemProperty 'spring.profiles.active', 'development'
}

Note: I tried the same for build but build.systemProperty method does not exist for build task.

As I'm new in gradle, I'd be grateful is you could share your genuine solutions with me.

Answer 1

What you are looking for is setting system properties on the Test task, which is what will run your unit tests:

test {
  systemProperty 'spring.profiles.active', 'development'
}

Edited after comment - leaving the original answer below as it may still be useful.

Gradle does not know the way bootRun exposes its system properties.

You thus have to add a configuration in your build script, to expose what you need to the Gradle command line.

Something like:

bootRun {
    bootRun.systemProperty 'spring.profiles.active', "${springProfile}"
}

and then have a default in gradle.properties:

springProfile = development

and possibly override the value on the command line:

./gradlew -PspringProfile=test build

Answer 2

If you using gradle boot run you need to add this to your build.gradle file

bootRun {
    String activeProfile =  System.properties['spring.profiles.active']
    systemProperty "spring.profiles.active", activeProfile
}

and then at the time of building you can use gradle bootRun -Dspring.profiles.active=test

or to build you can use gradle build -Dspring.profiles.active=test