Spring @Value is not resolving to value from property file

Question

I've had this working in some other project before, I am just re-doing the same thing but for some reason it's not working. The Spring @Value is not reading from property file, but instead it's taking the value literally

AppConfig.java

@Component public class AppConfig {     @Value("${key.value1}")     private String value;      public String getValue()     {         return value;     } } 

applicationContext.xml:

<context:component-scan     base-package="com.test.config" /> <context:annotation-config />  <bean id="appConfigProperties"     class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">     <property name="location" value="classpath:appconfig.properties" /> </bean> 

appconfig.properties

key.value1=test value 1 

In my controller, where I have:

@Autowired private AppConfig appConfig; 

The application starts just fine, but when I do

appConfig.getValue() 

it returns

${key.value1} 

It doesn't resolve to the value inside the properties file.

Thoughts?

Answer 1

I also found the reason @value was not working is, @value requires PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer instead of a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer. i did the same changes and it worked for me, i am using spring 4.0.3 release. I configured this using below code in my configuration file -

@Bean  public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer propertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer() { return new PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer(); }