Interface Environment
- All Superinterfaces:
PropertyResolver
- All Known Subinterfaces:
ConfigurableEnvironment
,ConfigurableWebEnvironment
- All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractEnvironment
,MockEnvironment
,StandardEnvironment
,StandardPortletEnvironment
,StandardServletEnvironment
public interface Environment extends PropertyResolver
Interface representing the environment in which the current application is running. Models two key aspects of the application environment: profiles and properties. Methods related to property access are exposed via thePropertyResolver
superinterface.A profile is a named, logical group of bean definitions to be registered with the container only if the given profile is active. Beans may be assigned to a profile whether defined in XML or via annotations; see the spring-beans 3.1 schema or the
@Profile
annotation for syntax details. The role of theEnvironment
object with relation to profiles is in determining which profiles (if any) are currently active, and which profiles (if any) should be active by default.Properties play an important role in almost all applications, and may originate from a variety of sources: properties files, JVM system properties, system environment variables, JNDI, servlet context parameters, ad-hoc Properties objects, Maps, and so on. The role of the environment object with relation to properties is to provide the user with a convenient service interface for configuring property sources and resolving properties from them.
Beans managed within an
ApplicationContext
may register to beEnvironmentAware
or@Inject
theEnvironment
in order to query profile state or resolve properties directly.In most cases, however, application-level beans should not need to interact with the
Environment
directly but instead may have to have${...}
property values replaced by a property placeholder configurer such asPropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer
, which itself isEnvironmentAware
and as of Spring 3.1 is registered by default when using<context:property-placeholder/>
.Configuration of the environment object must be done through the
ConfigurableEnvironment
interface, returned from allAbstractApplicationContext
subclassgetEnvironment()
methods. SeeConfigurableEnvironment
Javadoc for usage examples demonstrating manipulation of property sources prior to application contextrefresh()
.- Since:
- 3.1
- Author:
- Chris Beams
- See Also:
PropertyResolver
,EnvironmentCapable
,ConfigurableEnvironment
,AbstractEnvironment
,StandardEnvironment
,EnvironmentAware
,ConfigurableApplicationContext.getEnvironment()
,ConfigurableApplicationContext.setEnvironment(org.springframework.core.env.ConfigurableEnvironment)
,AbstractApplicationContext.createEnvironment()
Method Summary
All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Modifier and Type Method Description boolean
acceptsProfiles(String... profiles)
Return whether one or more of the given profiles is active or, in the case of no explicit active profiles, whether one or more of the given profiles is included in the set of default profiles.String[]
getActiveProfiles()
Return the set of profiles explicitly made active for this environment.String[]
getDefaultProfiles()
Return the set of profiles to be active by default when no active profiles have been set explicitly.Methods inherited from interface org.springframework.core.env.PropertyResolver
containsProperty, getProperty, getProperty, getProperty, getProperty, getPropertyAsClass, getRequiredProperty, getRequiredProperty, resolvePlaceholders, resolveRequiredPlaceholders
Method Detail
getActiveProfiles
String[] getActiveProfiles()
Return the set of profiles explicitly made active for this environment. Profiles are used for creating logical groupings of bean definitions to be registered conditionally, for example based on deployment environment. Profiles can be activated by setting "spring.profiles.active" as a system property or by callingConfigurableEnvironment.setActiveProfiles(String...)
.If no profiles have explicitly been specified as active, then any default profiles will automatically be activated.
getDefaultProfiles
String[] getDefaultProfiles()
Return the set of profiles to be active by default when no active profiles have been set explicitly.
acceptsProfiles
boolean acceptsProfiles(String... profiles)
Return whether one or more of the given profiles is active or, in the case of no explicit active profiles, whether one or more of the given profiles is included in the set of default profiles. If a profile begins with '!' the logic is inverted, i.e. the method will return true if the given profile is not active. For example,env.acceptsProfiles("p1", "!p2")
will returntrue
if profile 'p1' is active or 'p2' is not active.- Throws:
IllegalArgumentException
- if called with zero arguments or if any profile isnull
, empty or whitespace-only- See Also:
getActiveProfiles()
,getDefaultProfiles()