The example tells me to add:

@ConfigurationProperties(prefix=”my”, locations=”classpath:example.properties”)

However, it was removed from Spring 1.5 I believe, so that’s not available. Googling told me to add this annotation:

@PropertySource(“classpath:example.properties”)

But that doesn’t work either. The reason is because:

“In certain situations, it may not be possible or practical to tightly control property source ordering when using @ProperySource annotations. For example, if the @Configuration classes above were registered via component-scanning, the ordering is difficult to predict.”

Taken from:

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/context/annotation/PropertySource.html

I think I’ll just leave this example. The video was trying to show all the different ways to get the property, using Profiles and different ways to wire up the beans. Honestly, it’s all a bit of a muddle at this stage, so I’m not going to debug old deprecated code.

Spring Boot is very clever. By specifying @EnableAutoConfiguration on the main class of the application, it goes through your PATH and looks at what you have (what your Maven Dependencies are). It then makes sure to include everything you may need and configures them with sensible defaults so it all works.

However, you can change all of these things. For example, to change Tomcat to use a different port and context you can go to Run > Run Configurations > Spring Boot App, select your app from the left hand side > Arguments tab, and then there’s a space to add Program arguments. The example I was following was a bit old. Google resulted in https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-context-path, so:

--server.port=9000 --server.context-path=/test

changed to:

--server.port=9000 --server.servlet.context-path=/test

The article shows 5 ways to change the context path and shows the priority applied to each way, as you can imagine that these settings would be duplicated and would probably be different at different times. It shouldn’t, but you know it would be! It could always be used as a fallback I suppose too.

Must remember to press the Relaunch spring boot icon to pick up changes, which in STS is a red square with a green triangle over it to the bottom right.

I next moved these properties into src/main/resources/application.properties

server.port=9000
server.servlet.context-path=/test

I then added two more. ‘name’ is used in the Application.java file, and ‘type’ is used in ‘name’ in the properties file.

type=Framework
name=Spring Boot ${type}

Application.java:

@Value("${name}")
String name;

//end-point for the rest controller
@RequestMapping("/")
public String home() {
return name;
}

In the Manual Configuration chapter, Start POMs section, the out of date code does not work. I have downloaded all the recent releases, but two of the annotations have been removed and replaced.

//import org.springframework.boot.test.SpringApplicationConfiguration;
//@SpringApplicationConfiguration(Application.class)

import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
@SpringBootTest(classes = Application.class)

//import org.springframework.boot.test.WebIntegrationTest;
//@WebIntegrationTest()

import org.springframework.test.context.web.WebAppConfiguration;
@WebAppConfiguration

public class ApplicationTest { ...

Right-click on ApplicationTest.java > Run as JUnit test now works 🙂