How to inject a Map using the @Value Spring Annotation?
I believe Spring Boot supports loading properties maps out of the box with @ConfigurationProperties annotation.
According that docs you can load properties:
my.servers[0]=dev.bar.com
my.servers[1]=foo.bar.com
into bean like this:
@ConfigurationProperties(prefix="my")
public class Config {
private List<String> servers = new ArrayList<String>();
public List<String> getServers() {
return this.servers;
}
}
I used @ConfigurationProperties feature before, but without loading into map. You need to use @EnableConfigurationProperties annotation to enable this feature.
Cool stuff about this feature is that you can validate your properties.
You can inject values into a Map from the properties file using the @Value
annotation like this.
The property in the properties file.
propertyname={key1:'value1',key2:'value2',....}
In your code.
@Value("#{${propertyname}}") private Map<String,String> propertyname;
Note the hashtag as part of the annotation.