Can I override values in external PropertySource over the application specific profile properties-CodePudding

I have an external properties file that is present in Hashicorp and am pulling it to Spring Boot using @PropertySource annotation. In my Spring Boot application, there are profile specific application.properties files. Now what I want is the PropertySource config to take precedence over these profile specific config.

I read through the Spring Boot External Config doc already- https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.1.13.RELEASE/reference/html/boot-features-external-config.html which mentions PropertySource config is least preference

@PropertySource(value="${path}",ignoreResourceNotFound = true)
public class MyApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(MyApplication.class, args);
    }
}

In my application.properties file-

name=value

In my external config file-

name=updatedNewValue

What I want is to retrieve the the 'updatedNewValue', instead I get 'value'.

Is it possible to override it?

CodePudding user response：

Specific profiles take precedence over the default profile. You can have placename=value in your file.properties (or properties.yml) and a second file named file-.properties (test, prod, stage are common options) with the placeholder placename=value.

Remember to provide the profile the application as configuration before running it.

CodePudding user response：

If you want to overwrite a property for a specific profile, using an external configuration, your external file/source must be profile specific: properties-profile.properties (if it's file-based)

You mentioned Hashicorp... Not sure if it's Vault or Consul, but for Vault, you can define a profile-specific value using:

vault write secret/application,profile foo=bar