how to use environment variable with spring boot when the value having special symbol like ':'?

Question

I'm trying to use environment variable in a application.properties in the Spring Boot, but the static value has some ':' in the middle.

spring.data.mongodb.uri = {$URI:mongodb://user:pass@host.mlab.com:port/db}

But this don't work, i guess it's because

mongodb://user:pass@host.mlab.com:port/db

has ':' in it. I want to use environment variable when available, but if don't use the static configuration, like this works pretty well:

server.port=${PORT:8080}

Do anyone knows how to solve this problem?

https://stackoverflow.com/q/31711308/2970947 – Elliott Frisch May 06 '19 at 23:17 — Elliott Frisch, May 06 '19 at 23:17

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 06 '19 at 23:21

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Represent the string double quotes

{$URI: "mongodb://user:pass@host.mlab.com:port/db"}

answered May 06 '19 at 23:21

Ryuzaki L

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