If you’re in the Enterprise Java space, you’re probably aware that you can use MicroProfile Config to configure your applications. This also works with plain Java projects, without an enterprise runtime, by using a MicroProfile implementation such as Smallrye. In this video, I’m showing how to do this, and in which circumstances it might be helpful:
The example uses a programmatic lookup via ConfigProvider:
String value = ConfigProvider.getConfig().getValue("config.value", String.class);
System.out.println("value = " + value);In the video, I’m making use of another ConfigSource that reads the entries from a .env file, which overrides entries in microprofile-config.properties:
# META-INF/microprofile-config.properties config.value=123 ...
# .env, in current working directory CONFIG_VALUE=234 ...
For this example to work, we need to activate Smallrye’s DotEnvConfigSourceProvider via Java Service Loader, by adding a file META-INF/services/org.eclipse.microprofile.config.spi.ConfigSourceProvider that contains the fully-qualified class name:
io.smallrye.config.DotEnvConfigSourceProvider
You can check out the ConfigExample code on GitHub.
In order to see a fully-fledged example which uses this approach, have a look at my post on Running complex project setups with Testcontainers.
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