Read data from properties file

How to read values from properties file? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 11 months ago. Active 10 months ago. Viewed k times. This does not look like a properties file. If it is a properties file in the Java sense - yes. Otherwise it is a custom file format that needs to be treated different and you can't just use the lines as property values in Spring if they don't have a key.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Null 1, 9 9 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. Hi mrembisz, Thanks for your reply. Edited as suggested by Ethan. Thanks for update, could not accept original edit, it was too late already. For the case where you are dealing with comma separated values perhaps consider what is being proposed here by using EL: stackoverflow. How do we use aaa? And yes, you can print it except not in the constructor because constructor is executed before values are injected.

Show 3 more comments. There are various ways to achieve the same. Assuming ds. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. To use a PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer you must normally set a location or resource otherwise you couldn't access a properties file.

You can use e. In this example, would you simply use a different app. In other words, would part of your deployment process be to replace app. KevinMeredith yes, you can, just split your spring configuration by Profile annotation stackoverflow.

Deployment process gets simplified and less error-prone. If you need to manually read a properties file without using Value. We wish the above example of reading the properties file using TestNG framework would be useful for you. But you can directly ask if you wish to report any issue or want to share any enhancement.

Skip to content category Selenium Tutorial user Meenakshi Agarwal. This is a utility provided by Java itself. If any information is changed from the properties file, you don't need to recompile the java class. In other words, the advantage of using properties file is we can configure things that are prone to change over a period of time without need of changing anything in code.

For E. We keep application Url in the property file, so in case you want to run test from on other test environment, just change the Url in a property file and that's it. You do not require to build the whole project again. The only thing we need to do is to give the file name and give the extension as. In our case we name it as Configuation. If we look at our first method of Steps file, we will find that we have been using two hard coded values:.

Note : The above is the properties file that we will use for the Cucumber tests. Remember white space between the property name and property value is always ignored. We will keep all the data readers files here in this package. To use the ConfigFileReader object in the test, we need to fist create an object of the class.