[FIXED] How come application-<profile>.properties is not loading when profile is set?

Issue

I have application-dev.properties and application-local.properties in the root of my class path. Inside the properties files are my datasource properties. But they are not being loaded even though we start the app with

java -Dspring.profiles.active=local -jar myJarApp.jar

Thanks

Solution

Try passing the argument as shown below:

$ java -jar xyz.jar --spring.profiles.active="dev"

Instead of using the -D flag.

Alternatively, you can set the following environment variable in your console/prompt, and then run the java -jar xyz.jar without passing any parameters

export SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=dev

That should work.

Reference:

http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-external-config.html

Answered By - Kartik Pandya
Answer Checked By - David Marino (JavaFixing Volunteer)