将属性添加到 application.properties 以获取“mvnw clean package”？

Question

While debugging in STS, I need property xxx.yyy.zzz to either be / or not there at all. However, when deploying to Tomcat via mvnw clean package, I need to add xxx.yyy.zzz=/myApp

I saw a SO overflow post that says you just need to do:

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
      <systemPropertyVariables>
        <xxx.yyy.zzz>/myApp</xxx.yyy.zzz>
      </systemPropertyVariables>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>

But that doesn't work. I've been reading up on profiles, but I think that is overkill for my needs, I don't want to maintain multiple copies of the properties, I just want to override that one property. Is there a way to do the profiles where you just have values to override?

This is for a spring boot app.

EDIT:

Based on Khalil's suggestion, I am trying profiles.

1) I added application-tomcat.properties

2) In pom.xml, I added:

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>tomcat</id>
        <properties>
            <spring.properties.active>tomcat</spring.properties.active>
        </properties>
    </profile>
</profiles>

3) I did mvnw clean package -P tomcat

No errors, and the deployment went fine, but its not reading the property.

Answer 1

what's wrong with this solution?

application-root.properties

xxx.yyy.zzz=/

application-not-root.properties

bla bla

@Profile("root")
public String xxYY(){
return yourVar;
}

@Profile("Notroot")
public String xxYY(){
return "";
}

if (your condition){
  AnnotationConfigApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext();
      context.getEnvironment().setActiveProfiles("root or no root");
}

or even this if you're talking about Tomcat:

if (your condition)
servletContext.setInitParameter("spring.profiles.active", "root or no root");