In this section, we will discuss about loading Properties file in Spring.
To load any property file in Spring, add the following bean definition in Spring configuration file.
XML Configuration
<description>
Configurer that replaces ${...} placeholders with values from a properties file
</description>
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath:user.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="user" class="in.techdive.spring.model.User">
<description>
Load Properties of the user bean from user.properties file
</description>
<property name="userName" value="${user.userName}" />
<property name="passWord" value="${user.passWord}" />
<property name="firstName" value="${user.firstName}" />
<property name="lastName" value="${user.lastName}" />
<property name="email" value="${user.email}" />
<property name="country" value="${user.country}" />
<property name="state" value="${user.state}" />
</bean>
The PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer spring api bean is used to replace the property name with corresponding property value in the spring configuration file.
The User bean for which the properties are to loaded is as follows.
User Bean Class
import java.io.Serializable;
public class User implements Serializable
{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 0L;
private long userId;
private String userName;
private String passWord;
private String email;
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private String country;
private String state;
public User()
{
}
//add getter/setter methods here
}
Now when Spring context loads, the User bean will be initialized with set of properties from user.properties file will be assigned to attributes(userId, userName, passWord... etc)
The contents of User.properties is as follows
User.properties
user.passWord=sunil123
user.firstName=Sunil
user.lastName=John
user.email=sjohn@gmail.com
user.country=US
user.state=California
Now lets test our code using LoadPropTester class.
LoadPropTester Class
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package in.techdive.spring.examples;
public class LoadPropTester
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
ApplicationContext ctx = new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext(
new String[] { "classpath*:spring-LoadProperties.xml" });
User usr = (User) ctx.getBean("user");
System.out.println("Username = " + usr.getUserName());
System.out.println("PassWord = " + usr.getPassWord());
System.out.println("FirstName = " + usr.getFirstName());
System.out.println("LastName = " + usr.getLastName());
System.out.println("Country = " + usr.getCountry());
System.out.println("State = " + usr.getState());
System.out.println("Email = " + usr.getEmail());
}
}
The above class initially loads the ApplicationContext from spring-LoadProperties.xml file available in class path. We can get the user bean from the context using getBean() method.
Output:
PassWord is sunil123
FirstName is Sunil
LastName is John
Country is US
State is California
Email is sjohn@gmail.com