File location for PropertyOverrideConfigurer

[Kees de Kooter]

I am using the ClasspathXmlAppContext.

The ${} syntax if for the PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer.

[Kees de Kooter]

Thanks Andreas,

I start the app with -jar, from the folder the jar is in.

[Kees de Kooter]

Did some more digging. I created a bare bones app with the following config:

    <bean id="propertyOverrideConfigurer"
        class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyOverrideConfigurer">
        <property name="location" value="file:deploy.properties"/>
        <property name="ignoreResourceNotFound"    value="false"/>
        <property name="ignoreInvalidKeys" value="false"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="bean"
        class="Bean">
        <property name="property" value="original" />
    </bean>

I would expect some error when the properties file is not found. But I see no error message at all. So apparently the override configurer is just not working.

Then I read the spring reference guid once more on the subject:

Just as in the case of BeanPostProcessors, you typically don't want to have
BeanFactoryPostProcessors marked as being lazily-initialized.

And that was exactly my problem My app context has the property default-lazy-init="true".
After defining the configurer as lazy-init="false" everything worked as expected.

[belugabob]

I am using the ClasspathXmlAppContext.

The ${} syntax if for the PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer.

My apologies - I misread PropertyOverrideConfigurer as PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer.

[Kees de Kooter]

No problem. Thanks for your help.