Application.properties not detected by spring boot 2.5.3

Question

I have migrated my project from gradle 5 to 7.1 and spring boot 2.5.3. After i build the jar, i tried to execute the same. Earlier it was working fine. But now, its not detecting the application.properties file. I have tried many solutions in Stackoverflow and other website, but it didn't help me. It would be very helpful if anyone can point out my mistake. Am trying to execute in windows machine. application.properties file is present inside config folder which is parallel to jar

Attempt 1 :

java -Dloader.path=.,config\ -jar xyz-1.0.0.jar

error :

class path resource [application.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist

Attempt 2 :

java -Dspring.config.location=classpath:/application.properties -jar xyz-1.0.0.jar

error:

ConfigDataResourceNotFoundException: Config data resource 'class path resource [application.properties]' via location 'classpath:/application.properties' cannot be found

Attempt 3 :

java -jar xyz-1.0.0.jar -Dspring.config.location=classpath:/application.properties

error :

 FileNotFoundException: class path resource [application.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist

Attempt 4 :

java -Dspring.config.location=file:c:\Sheljith\tools\config\application.properties  -jar xyz-1.0.0.jar

error :

FileNotFoundException: class path resource [application.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist

Attempt 5 :

java --spring.config.location=file:c:\Sheljith\tools\config\application.properties  -jar xyz-1.0.0.jar

error :

Unrecognized option: --spring.config.location=file:c:\Sheljith\tools\config\application.properties

Attempt 6 :

java -Dspring.config.name=application -Dspring.config.location=file:///C:/Sheljith/tools/drc-reports-generator/config/ -jar xyz-1.0.0.jar

error :

.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [application.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist

Attempt 7 :

java -Dspring.config.location=file:///C:/Sheljith/tools/config/application.properties -jar xyz-1.0.0.jar

error :

class path resource [application.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist

build.gradle

    buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        mavenLocal()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin")
    }
}
plugins {
    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.5.3'
    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.11.RELEASE'
    id 'java'
}
jar.archiveName = "drc-reports-generator.jar"
version = '1.0.0'
sourceCompatibility = '1.8'
jar {
    manifest {
        attributes 'Implementation-Title': 'Gradle Quickstart',
                   'Implementation-Version': version
    }
}



repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    mavenLocal()
}
processResources{
    exclude '*/**'
}

springBoot{
    mainClass = "com.xyz.Application"
}

dependencies {
    implementation group: 'commons-collections', name: 'commons-collections', version: '3.2'
    implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter") 
    implementation 'com.googlecode.json-simple:json-simple:1.1.1'
    testImplementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test")
    implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa")
    testImplementation group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.+'
    testImplementation group: 'com.tngtech.java', name: 'junit-dataprovider', version: '1.13.1'
    implementation 'com.itextpdf:itextpdf:5.5.11'
    implementation 'org.springframework:spring-web:4.3.6.RELEASE'
    implementation 'com.microsoft.sqlserver:sqljdbc4:4.0'
    implementation("com.h2database:h2")
    implementation("org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.0")
    implementation group: 'com.github.ulisesbocchio', name: 'jasypt-spring-boot-starter', version: '3.0.0'
}

test {
    useJUnitPlatform()
}

Answer 1

Since the application.properties file is located in parallel to the jar file. try this:

java -jar xyz-1.0.0.jar --spring.config.location=application.properties

Edit: Can you try this once:

java -Dspring.config.additional-location=application.properties -jar xyz-1.0.0.jar

change existing processResources to below: // Exclude all resources from the jar

jar {
    processResources.exclude('*')
}