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Sathya
Sathya

Reputation: 175

How to replace spring property placeholders in a simple java program

I am working with Java and spring boot apps. I have a property file which needs to be added as environmental variables for a docker image at run time. Some of the properties are filtered through the existing Environment when they are used via placeholders as below.

app.name=MyApp
app.description=${app.name} is a Spring Boot application

I am writing a sample java file to read this property file and create a map object with some filtered properties. In this process how can I replace the placeholders with the actual property values?

I have tried looking for a key and replacing using getProperty method. But I would like to avoid looking up hard coded property key names in order to avoid maintenance difficulties. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6967

Answers (2)

Usagi Miyamoto
Usagi Miyamoto

Reputation: 6329

I would create a new Properties descendant, with a method that gets a property value, and replaces any references, if any.

Something like this:

class MyProperties extends Properties
{
    // Constructors, as needed
    private Pettern p = Pattern.compile("\\$\\{([^}]+)\\}");
    public String getString(final String key)
    {
        final String value = getProperty(key);
        if (null == value)
            return null;
        final StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
        final Matcher m = p.matcher(value);
        while (m.find())
        {
            final String refKey = m.group(1);
            final String refValue = getProperty(refKey);
            m.appendReplacement(result, null == refValue ? refKey : refValue);
        }
        m.appendTail(result);
        return result.toString();
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

user8943952
user8943952

Reputation:

Replace the named token with numbered token and use the MessageFormat class of Java SE. It allows you to do exactly what you ask for.

Assuming props contains all the properties loaded from your file.

MessageFormat.format((String) props.get("app.description"),((String) props.get("app.name"));

Here your property shall be :

app.description={0} is a Spring Boot application

Else you will need to write a custom

Upvotes: 5

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