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cfrick
cfrick

Reputation: 37008

How to set environment vars in IntelliJ for Gradle tasks

the easiest way to pass spring profiles to gradle bootRun is (for me) by environment variable (e.g. SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE), when run on commandline.

Unlike the Application configurations, the config for gradle tasks does not provide an input for environment variables. And as VM options don't get picked up either as it seems, I can not run those tasks from the IDE.

I am aware, that I could start IntelliJ with the envvar set, but this seems rather cumbersome.

So what I need is the IntelliJ pendant for SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=dev,testdb gradle bootRun, unless there is a good reason, they have left this out.

System is linux, intellij 14. The project in question is using springboot and I want to move over from running main in IntelliJ to running with springloaded+bootRun and separate compileGroovy calls as IntelliJ is not "understanding" the gradle file completely and therefor hides errors.

Upvotes: 37

Views: 34263

Answers (3)

sparkyspider
sparkyspider

Reputation: 13519

Here is my solution for setting up Spring environment variables / settings with Gradle / IntelliJ

Firstly, define a basic properties file, and then one based on your environment, such as:

@Configuration
@PropertySources(value = {@PropertySource("classpath:default.properties"),@PropertySource("classpath:${env}.properties")})

Int the above example, pay careful attention to the @PropertySource("classpath:${env}.properties"). This is an environment variable being pulled through.

Next, add a VM argument to IntelliJ (via the Gradle Tasks Run Configurations) - or as an argument via the gradle command line.

How to add a VM argument to the Gradle run configuration Lastly, copy the properties across in the gradle task as @cfrick mentioned and @mdjnewman have correctly shown:

tasks.withType(org.springframework.boot.gradle.run.BootRunTask) {
    bootRun.systemProperties = System.properties
}

Upvotes: 6

cfrick
cfrick

Reputation: 37008

Make the System.properties available in the bootRun (or other) tasks.

bootRun.systemProperties = System.properties

This way we can set in IntelliJ VM Options like -Dspring.profiles.active=dev.

Upvotes: 10

mdjnewman
mdjnewman

Reputation: 156

I've had success adding the following to my build.gradle file:

tasks.withType(org.springframework.boot.gradle.run.BootRunTask) {
    systemProperty('spring.profiles.active', 'local')
}

This allows gradlew bootRun to be run from IntelliJ without requiring any changes to the IntelliJ Run/Debug Configurations (and also from the command line without having to manually specify a profile).

Upvotes: 4

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