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rayman
rayman

Reputation: 21596

Externalize Spring Boot application.properties on windows not working

I build executable jar file(using gradle) of my spring-boot app:

I put application.properties file somewhere in my comp. for example:

/etc/test/application.properties

I run my jar this way:

java -jar my-app-0.0.1.jar --spring.config.location=etc/test/application.properties

I get error:

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [application.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist

what am I doing wrong ?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8634

Answers (2)

sebge2
sebge2

Reputation: 403

Try this -Dspring.config.location=file:/etc/test/application.properties (I've tested it on windows with -Dspring.config.location=file:c:\application.properties)

Upvotes: 5

rayman
rayman

Reputation: 21596

Problem was that I had additional annotation: 

@PropertySource("classpath:application.properties")

which always override it

Upvotes: 3

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