I was having the similar issue to read properties from my application.properties file in spring boot application. I have struggled a lot to figure out the problem and make it work. Finally I have done. Here is my Constants class which will read properties values from properties file. I hope it will help to someone.
import org.springframework.context.EnvironmentAware;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.PropertySource;
import org.springframework.context.support.PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer;
import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
@Configuration
@PropertySource("classpath:application.properties")
public class Constants implements EnvironmentAware {
static Environment environment;
@Override
public void setEnvironment(Environment environment) {
Constants.environment = environment;
}
@Bean
public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer propertyConfigInDev() {
return new PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer();
}
public static String getActiveMQHost() {
System.out.println(environment.getProperty("spring.activemq.broker-host"));
return environment.getProperty("spring.activemq.broker-host");
}
public static String getActiveMQPort() {
System.out.println(environment.getProperty("spring.activemq.broker-port"));
return environment.getProperty("spring.activemq.broker-port");
}
public static String getActiveMQUser() {
System.out.println(environment.getProperty("spring.activemq.user"));
return environment.getProperty("spring.activemq.user");
}
public static String getActiveMQPassword() {
System.out.println(environment.getProperty("spring.activemq.password"));
return environment.getProperty("spring.activemq.password");
}
}
These are the property key's declared in my application.properties,
spring.activemq.broker-host
spring.activemq.broker-port
spring.activemq.user
spring.activemq.password