How to use SpringBoot @ConfigurationProperties with Jasypt in properties located outside application.properties

Question

I'm using Spring Boot 1.4.2 and use @ConfigurationProperties to load my properties to my property bean like this:

@ConfigurationProperties(prefix="my.prop", locations = "classpath:properties/myprop.properties")
@Configuration
public class MyProp {
    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;
    // getters & setters
}

Also I have this property file:

my.prop.firstName=fede
my.prop.lastName=ENC(MzWi5OXKOja3DwA52Elf23xsBPr4FgMi5cEYTPkDets=)

My controller is pretty simple:

@RestController
public class MyController {
    @Autowired
    private MyProp prop;

    @GetMapping("/")
    public String get() {
        System.out.println(String.format("UserConfig - user: %s, lastName: %s", prop.getFirstName(), prop.getLastName()));

        return "something";
    }
}

Everything works fine, my properties are loaded and my output is:

2016-11-28 14:36:30,402 INFO  9780 --- [qtp792210014-27] c.c.b.m.c.c.MyController         : [OhxxugGR] UserConfig - user: fede, lastName: ENC(MzWi5OXKOja3DwA52Elf23xsBPr4FgMi5cEYTPkDets=)

I confirmed that everything works fine and I wanted to use jasypt to encrypt and use my properties, however I added this dependency to the pom:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.ulisesbocchio</groupId>
    <artifactId>jasypt-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
    <version>1.9</version>
</dependency>

But jasypt is not decrypting as you can see in the logs. I've read the documentation provided in this jasypt starter but still no luck.

This is my main class:

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableEncryptableProperties
public class ServiceBaseApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(ServiceBaseApplication.class, args);
    }
}

After testing what stephane-nicoll pointed in his comment, it seems that Jasypt only picks properties located in application.properties, so how could I use jasypt with properties located outside this file?

Answer 1

I had the same issue where I was storing my encrypted password in a database and loading that data on startup. But Jasypt cannot decrypt it unless it is in properties file. I had posted the same question to Jasypt guys. Check this link for their reply

https://github.com/ulisesbocchio/jasypt-spring-boot/issues/31#event-752104289

Finally, this is what I ended up doing.

@Configuration
public class JasyptConfig {

    @Value("${jasypt.encryptor.password}")
    public String encryptDecryptKey; // This is the key I used to encrypt my password

    @Bean
    public TextEncryptor createTextDecryptor(){
        BasicTextEncryptor textDecryptor = new BasicTextEncryptor();
        textDecryptor.setPassword(encryptDecryptKey);
        return textDecryptor;
    }
}

And in my class where I had to decrypt, I did this

@Component
public class PasswordUtil {
    private final TextEncryptor textDecryptor;

    @Autowired
    public PasswordUtil(final TextEncryptor textDecryptor) {
        this.textDecryptor = textDecryptor;
    }

    public String decrypt(String encryptedText){  // This encryptedText is the one like *ENC(....)*
        return textDecryptor.decrypt(encryptedText);
    }
}

Cheers