Looping through all the properties in a file, with spring and java

Question

Normally i would populate a field using annotations when I knew the property name like so :

@Value("${myproperties.myValue}")
private String myString

However I now want to loop through all the properties in a file, when their names are unknown, and store both there value and name. What's the best way with spring and java ?

Answer 1

Actually if you need only to read properties from a file and not to use these properties in Spring's property placeholders, then the solution is simple

public class Test1 {
    @Autowired
    Properties props;

    public void printProps() {
        for(Entry<Object, Object> e : props.entrySet()) {
            System.out.println(e);
        }
    }

...

<util:properties id="props" location="/spring.properties" />