Is it possible to parse a property from application.yml to the java class field with a different name?

Question

Is it possible to parse a property from application.yml to the java class field with a different name?

Say I have the following application.yml file

service:
  cms:
    webClient: http://www.example.com

and my java class is

@Getter
@Setter
@ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "service.cms")
public class CmsProperties {
  private String webClient;
}

I would like to rename java field name CmsProperties#webClient into CmsProperties#basePath , but I must keep the original name webClient in the application.yml .

Is it possible to do it?

PS I am using Spring Framework if it matters for the solution.

Answer 1

OfCourse It is possible.

Spring

When you read property from yml file, you just need to provide key while it stores in basePath

@Value("${webClient}")
private String basePath;

Plain Java

InputStream input = new FileInputStream("path/to/config.properties")) {
Properties prop = new Properties();
prop.load(input);
String basePath = prop.getProperty("webClient")

Hope that does resolve answer