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Reading Values from Properties

Use @Value to pull configuration data from your application.properties file. The part after the colon provides a default value if the property key is missing.

snippet.java

java

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
 
@Component
public class WelcomeConfig {
    @Value("${app.welcome.text:Hello!}")
    private String message;
}

spring

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@Value("${app.welcome.text:Hello!}")

Looks for 'app.welcome.text' in properties; defaults to 'Hello!' if not found.

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