CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javaspringspring-mvc
ashley
ashley

Reputation: 1038

location of properties file in spring mvc project

I am trying to inject values of a properties file into a controller in a spring mvc project. I am using spring version 5.0.4. Below is the definition of my servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
       xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/util
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">

    <!-- Step 3: Add support for component scanning -->
    <context:component-scan base-package="mu.mra" />


    <!-- Step 4: Add support for conversion, formatting and validation support -->
    <mvc:annotation-driven/>

    <!-- Step 5: Define Spring MVC view resolver -->
    <bean
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </bean>

    <util:properties id="countryOptions" location="classpath: countries.properties" />

</beans>

the properties file is located in the src/main/resources folder. But unfortunately I am getting the error below

org.springframework.beans.factory.UnsatisfiedDependencyException: Error creating bean with name 'studentController': Unsatisfied dependency expressed through field 'countryOptions'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanExpressionException: Expression parsing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.expression.spel.SpelEvaluationException: EL1021E: A problem occurred whilst attempting to access the property 'countryOptions': 'Error creating bean with name 'countryOptions': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [ countries.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist'

I am not too sure about the location of the properties file. Should it be in the WEB-INF folder? I would like some explanation as well on this if possible.

Thanks, Ashley

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1386

Answers (1)

Amr Alaa
Amr Alaa

Reputation: 553

You are right, the properties files do exist in the src/main/resources you can access them as following 

<util:properties id="countryOptions" location="classpath:countries.properties" />

Or using the annotations

@Value( "${property.needed}" )
private String property;

Upvotes: 1

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