Access properties file programmatically with Spring?

spring properties
Marcus Leon picture Marcus Leon · Nov 20, 2009 · Viewed 261.7k times · Source

We use the code below to inject Spring beans with properties from a properties file.

<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    <property name="locations" value="classpath:/my.properties"/>
</bean>

<bean id="blah" class="abc">
    <property name="path" value="${the.path}"/>
</bean>

Is there a way we can access the properties programmatically? I'm trying to do some code without dependency injection. So I'd like to just have some code like this:

PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer props = new PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer();
props.load("classpath:/my.properties");
props.get("path");

Answer

skaffman picture skaffman · Nov 20, 2009

How about PropertiesLoaderUtils?

Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("/my.properties");
Properties props = PropertiesLoaderUtils.loadProperties(resource);

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