Question

I need to get a Properties object into my spring bean so I can iterate over all the properties. I have the following in my spring test file so test properties override production properties like 10.x.x.x to 0.0.0.0 as a bind address

<context:property-placeholder location="esb-project-config.properties, test-esb-project-config.properties"/>

How to get the properties file injected that represents the properties of the final resulting set of those two files?

thanks,
Dean

Answer 1

You can create a properties bean and refer to it by id:

<bean id="composedProperties"
      class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
  <property name="locations">
    <list>
      <value>esb-project-config.properties</value>
      <value>test-esb-project-config.properties</value>
    </list>
  </property>
</bean>

Properties from files listed later in the list take precedence over listed earlier.