Question:
How can I use Spring Expression Language to check that 2 Boolean properties are true?
For example, checking that a single property is true would use the syntax:
Example
@ConditionalOnExpression("${property.from.properties.file}")
What would be the syntax for checking property1 == true && property2 == false
? Where the properties can potentially have different values.
The answer from a similar question: How to check two condition while using @ConditionalOnProperty or @ConditionalOnExpression concatenates two strings together and performs a check like so:
Concatenation Solution
@ConditionalOnExpression("'${com.property1}${com.property2}'=='value1value2'")
That syntax seems confusing to someone reading that code and it seems like a hacky solution. There are some edge cases where the solution fails as well. I want to find the proper way to check two separate properties without concatenating the values.
Note: Also just to be clear, the answer isn't something you can easily search for from what I've seen. It seems like it would be a really simple answer but it's proving to be fairly elusive.
As far as i remember, You could use this kind of expression:
@ConditionalOnExpression("'${com.property1}'.equals('${com.property2}')")
for further reading here is the link
if it was helpful, please do comment so that my confusion may also get cleared.
The annotations @ConditionalOnProperty
and @ConditionalOnExpression
both do NOT have the java.lang.annotation.Repeatable
annotation so you would not be able to just add multiple annotations for checking multiple properties.
The following syntax has been tested and works:
Solution for Two Properties
@ConditionalOnExpression("${properties.first.property.enable:true} && ${properties.second.property.startServer:false}")
Note the following:
It allows for multiple properties that have differing values and can extend to multiple properties.
If you want to check more then 2 values and still maintain readability, you can use the concatenation operator between different conditions you are evaluating:
Solution for more then 2 properties
@ConditionalOnExpression("${properties.first.property.enable:true} " +
"&& ${properties.second.property.enable:true} " +
"&& ${properties.third.property.enable:true}")
The drawback is that you cannot use a matchIfMissing argument as you would be able to when using the @ConditionalOnProperty
annotation so you will have to ensure that the properties are present in the .properties or YAML files for all your profiles/environments or just rely on the default value
Can be little bit confusing using boolean properties
@Bean
@ConditionalOnExpression("${config.integration.materializedCollectionDeleteEnabled:true} and ${config.integration.dbTransactionsEnabled:false}")
public DefaultMaterializedCollectionUpdater defaultMaterializedCollectionUpdater(IntegrationConfig integrationConfig, MongoTemplate mongoTemplate) {
return new DefaultMaterializedCollectionUpdater(integrationConfig, mongoTemplate);
}
It may seem like bean should be created when I have properties like
config:
integration:
dbTransactionsEnabled: false
materializedCollectionDeleteEnabled: true
But bean does not get created because ${property:value}
is giving you default value but not checking if your property has given value. If you want explicitly check property has value then use ==. You still can keep default values though
@Bean
@ConditionalOnExpression("${config.integration.materializedCollectionDeleteEnabled:true} == true and ${config.integration.dbTransactionsEnabled:false} == false")
public DefaultMaterializedCollectionUpdater defaultMaterializedCollectionUpdater(IntegrationConfig integrationConfig, MongoTemplate mongoTemplate) {
return new DefaultMaterializedCollectionUpdater(integrationConfig, mongoTemplate);
}
To debug use org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.Tokenizer
constructor
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