access to application properties (${appName}) in external configuration

Question

I've externalized my Grails configuration basically the same way as the config file suggests. I've done it all the time with my 1.3 projects and the line

grails.serverURL = "http://localhost:8080/${appName}"

in the external config worked great. Now I experience the problem with 2.0 that Grails seems not to be able to resolve the ${appName} - it will use [:] instead in redirects.

As soon as I move this line back to the internal configuration, everything works fine.

Is there any way to move this configuration line to the external configuration? Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

You can use ${grails.util.Metadata.current.getApplicationName()} instead.

Note that since Metadata implements Map you can't shorten that to ${grails.util.Metadata.current.applicationName} since the key isn't applicationName.