Spring Boot Programmatically setting profiles

Question

How to set active profile in spring boot Application. This application will be deployed in stand alone Tomcat.

I have 2 property files application-{profile}.properties.

My Application class

    @SpringBootApplication
        public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {

            @Override
            protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {        
                return application.sources(Application.class);
            }

            public static void main(String[] args) {
               System.setProperty(AbstractEnvironment.ACTIVE_PROFILES_PROPERTY_NAME, "dev");
 ApplicationContext ctx = SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
      }
    }

if I run the app with embedded tomcat the dev profile is set as active and it works fine. But when I deploy in stand alone tomcat. It does not work.

I tried to set active profile in configure method. but i get null pointer exception, when i get the environment from the context.

Any help on how to set the active profile.

score 26 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 11 '19 at 12:10

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You can set additional profiles on start up:

   SpringApplication springApp = new SpringApplication(Main.class);
   springApp.setAdditionalProfiles("profile1", "profile2");
   springApp.run(args);

edited Sep 11 '19 at 12:10

Markus Pscheidt

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answered Feb 24 '19 at 16:43

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This is a better answer - Reason - The Accepted Answer does not take into account of Deployment done on Micro profile Servers. On these , typically many wars are deployed which would share the active.profiles flag. By doing Accepted Answer - we would override the other app flags ! – user1428716 Oct 14 '19 at 01:54
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@user1428716, which is better depends on if you want to replace the active profile or add additional profiles – Kymo Wang Jul 01 '21 at 07:59
This adds additional profiles at the beginning, is there a way to set them at the end? e.g if current profile is set to "profile0", `springApp.setAdditionalProfiles("profile1", "profile2");` would make it as profile1, profile2, profile0. – Arun Gopalpuri Oct 28 '22 at 07:28

falcon · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-26T01:03:10.230

I also had the same problem and after struggling for half a day I ended up with this:

    @SpringBootApplication
    public class MyApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer {

        public static void main(String[] args) {
            System.setProperty(AbstractEnvironment.ACTIVE_PROFILES_PROPERTY_NAME, "dev");
            SpringApplication.run(MyApplication.class, args);
        }

        @Override
        public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {
            System.setProperty(AbstractEnvironment.ACTIVE_PROFILES_PROPERTY_NAME, "dev"); 
            super.onStartup(servletContext);
        }
    }

score 12 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 22 '20 at 06:52

Another way of doing it in Spring Boot 2 is by using SpringApplicationBuilder:

import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;

@SpringBootApplication
public class MySpringProgram {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new SpringApplicationBuilder(MySpringProgram.class)
                .profiles("profile1", "profile2")
                .run(args);
    }
}

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 10 '15 at 14:05

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Instead of activating the profile dynamically, you can put the profiles as vm-arguments in the catalina.sh

CATALINA_OPTS="-Dspring.profiles.active=dev"

answered Jul 10 '15 at 14:05

Qkyrie

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I have a similar situation. As of now, application-{profile} is created and active profile is set while running the application through --spring.profiles.active=dev. Its working fine. Currently the application is ran from eclipse. If I deploy this to tomcat, how can i achieve this? – sunitha Jul 20 '16 at 12:00
@sunitha you can set the profile in tomcat vm-rguments and it should work – Mukun Jul 28 '17 at 05:37

score 3 · Answer 5 · edited Sep 11 '19 at 13:10

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System.setProperty("spring.profiles.active", "dev");

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answered Jan 08 '18 at 13:57

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taha · Answer 6 · 2019-12-13T14:15:18.290

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SpringApplication app =new SpringApplication(Application.class);
    Properties props = new Properties();
    props.put("AbstractEnvironment.ACTIVE_PROFILES_PROPERTY_NAM", "dev");
    app.setDefaultProperties(props);
    app.run(args);

I think this code is better solution, because it doesn't set system property

edited Dec 13 '19 at 14:15

answered Dec 12 '19 at 16:20

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Generally, Stack Overflow prefers an explanation over "Code only" answers. Consider adding detail on how this code answers the question. – Vaccano Dec 13 '19 at 01:08

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