Access all Environment properties as a Map or Properties object

This is an old question, but the accepted answer has a serious flaw. If the Spring Environment object contains any overriding values (as described in Externalized Configuration), there is no guarantee that the map of property values it produces will match those returned from the Environment object. I found that simply iterating through the PropertySources of the Environment did not, in fact, give any overriding values. Instead it produced the original value, the one that should have been overridden.

Here is a better solution. This uses the EnumerablePropertySources of the Environment to iterate through the known property names, but then reads the actual value out of the real Spring environment. This guarantees that the value is the one actually resolved by Spring, including any overriding values.

Properties props = new Properties();
MutablePropertySources propSrcs = ((AbstractEnvironment) springEnv).getPropertySources();
StreamSupport.stream(propSrcs.spliterator(), false)
        .filter(ps -> ps instanceof EnumerablePropertySource)
        .map(ps -> ((EnumerablePropertySource) ps).getPropertyNames())
        .flatMap(Arrays::<String>stream)
        .forEach(propName -> props.setProperty(propName, springEnv.getProperty(propName)));

You need something like this, maybe it can be improved. This is a first attempt:

...
import org.springframework.core.env.PropertySource;
import org.springframework.core.env.AbstractEnvironment;
import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
import org.springframework.core.env.MapPropertySource;
...

@Configuration
...
@org.springframework.context.annotation.PropertySource("classpath:/config/default.properties")
...
public class GeneralApplicationConfiguration implements WebApplicationInitializer 
{
    @Autowired
    Environment env;

    public void someMethod() {
        ...
        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap();
        for(Iterator it = ((AbstractEnvironment) env).getPropertySources().iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
            PropertySource propertySource = (PropertySource) it.next();
            if (propertySource instanceof MapPropertySource) {
                map.putAll(((MapPropertySource) propertySource).getSource());
            }
        }
        ...
    }
...

Basically, everything from the Environment that's a MapPropertySource (and there are quite a lot of implementations) can be accessed as a Map of properties.