Getting the Gradle.build version into Spring Boot

Question

I'm trying to display the application version of my Spring Boot application in a view. I'm sure I can access this version information, I just don't know how.

I tried following this information: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/production-ready-endpoints.html, and put this in my application.properties:

info.build.version=${version} 

And then loading it @Value("${version.test}") in my controller, but that doesn't work, I only get errors like:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'version' in string value "${version}" 

Any suggestions on what the proper way to get information like my app version, the spring boot version, etc into my controller?

Answer 1

You can also add this in build.gradle :

springBoot {         buildInfo()  } 

Then, you can use BuildProperties bean :

@Autowired private BuildProperties buildProperties; 

And get the version with buildProperties.getVersion()