Get command-line arguments from spring-boot:run

Question

Is there any way to input arguments when launching spring-boot application (mvn spring-boot:run) from commandline and then get them in main()?

Answer 1

Looking at the source code of the spring-boot-maven-plugin I found that you need to do:

mvn spring-boot:run -Drun.arguments="arg1,arg2" 

Another way to get more information about what options the run goal of the spring-boot plugin supports is to execute the following command:

mvn help:describe -Dcmd=spring-boot:run -Ddetail 

For Spring Boot 2.x, the source is here and you now need to use -Dspring-boot.run.arguments="args1,args2"

(edit from april 2021) For Spring Boot 2.2+, you now need to use -Dspring-boot.run.arguments="args1 args2"

If you are using Gradle and you want to be able to pass command line arguments to the Gradle bootRun task, you first need to configure, for example like so:

bootRun {     if ( project.hasProperty('args') ) {         args project.args.split('\\s+')     } } 

and run the task using gradle bootRun -Pargs="arg1 arg2"