What is systemProperties in Spring and where to find it?

Question

I'm reading Spring In Action book and there's is an example:

public BlankDisc(@Value("#{systemProperties['disc.title']}" String title){
}

But what is systemProperties here and where to declare it? I thought it was application.properties file and added disc.title=Beatles there. But the value of title variable is null when the bean is created. I can inject the value of disc.title if i use @Value("${disc.title}") by the way.

Seism

SystemProperties here are the normal system properties defined while starting any java process, using -D flag. What you are seeing is just spring shorthand for referencing it. – Reduce

Answer 1

This is the property that will be set while starting the jar like "java -Dproperty.name="value" -jar app.jar"

Sevik

Is it possible to refer properties defined in application properties in SPEL? – Mcclenaghan

Answer 2

For example if you run application java -jar app.jar -Dmy.param=myParam

then you can create bean

@Bean
public String myParam(){
   return System.getProperty("my.param");
}

and inject by @Autowiere

Cherry