Spring properties (property-placeholder) autowiring

Question

I have in my applicationContext.xml

<context:property-placeholder location="classpath*:*.properties" />   <bean id="clientPreferencesManager" class="pl.bildpresse.bildchat2.business.ClientPreferencesManager" >     <property name="clientApiUrl" value="${clientapi.url}" />      </bean> 

Is it possible to do the same by autowire ? Something like :

@Autowired @Qualifier("${clientapi.url}") public void setClientApiUrl(String clientApiUrl) {     this.clientApiUrl = clientApiUrl; } 

Answer 1

You can use @Value:

@Value("${clientapi.url}")  public void setClientApiUrl(String clientApiUrl) {      this.clientApiUrl = clientApiUrl;  } 

Answer 2

It took me some time to understand why it didn't work. I always used a # instead of a $. I always got the message:

EL1008E:(pos 0): Field or property 'secretkey' cannot be found on object of type 'org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanExpressionContext' 

Just had to change it from:

@Value("#{secretkey}') 

to

@Value('${secretkey}') 

I hope this saves somebody's time.