Spring Boot is not loading the properties from a YML file

Question

My test file is :

@ActiveProfiles("test")
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
public class MyApplicationTest {
    @InjectMocks
    @Autowired
    protected MyController myController;

} 

My Controller file is:

@RestController
@RequestMapping(value="${app.base-path}")  // Unable to load this property
public class MyController {

}

I have tried @TestPropertySource but did not work. The SpringBootApplication works fine. This is not the case with @Value annotation. Fields decorated with @Value annotation works just fine.

Answer 1

Did you name your .yml file as application.yml and put it on the src/main/resources or src/test/resources ?

Placing the application.yml file on those folders will automatically add it to the classpath so you can access this file properties at runtime.

Answer 2

By default, Spring Boot will try to load application.yml and application-{profilename}.yml available on classpath, so you could try with application-test.yml (it will eliminate the problem with defining profiles in one file - maybe it causes your problem).

Also, you could try with bootstrap.yml , which is loaded before application.yml .