Question

In Play application.conf I have default values, %test, %stage and %prod values:

%stage.application.mode=prod
%prod.application.mode=prod
%test.application.mode=test

#default values
property=someValue

%test.property=testValue

%stage.property=stageValue

%prod.property=prodValue

I cannot change these because they’re used when the app is deployed to the respective environments.

However, I need to be able to start Play in test mode for unit testing on a local machine with different settings than what’s in %test.

Is there a way of adding another test config, say %unittest and start Play in test mode (play test) using these configs?

Answer 1

It actually works the other way around:

You define

%test-unit.application.mode=dev

Important: The prefix has to be test-

and set values like

%test-unit.property=testValue

finally, you need to set the “id” of your Play server on the command line:

$ play id

which, for this example would be test-unit.

Reference: http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.2.5/guide11