Spring Boot will automatically find and load `application.properties` and `application.yaml` files from the following locations when your application starts:
. The classpath root
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In such a case, having a wildcard location of `config/*/`, will result in both files being processed.
By default, Spring Boot includes `config/*/` in the default search locations.
The means that all subdirectories of the `/config` directory outside of your jar will be searched.
It means that all subdirectories of the `/config` directory outside of your jar will be searched.
You can use wildcard locations yourself with the `spring.config.location` and `spring.config.additional-location` properties.
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The slash has been removed from `key3` because it wasn't surrounded by square brackets.
You may also occasionally need to use the bracket notation if your `key` contains a `.` and you are binding to non-scalar value.
For example, binding `a.b=c` to `Map<String, Object>` will return a Map with the entry `{"a"={"b"="c"}}` whereas `[a.b]=c` will return a Map with the entry `{"a.b"="c"}`.
For example, binding `a.b=c` to `Map<String, Object>` will return a Map with the entry `{"a"={"b"="c"}}` whereas `[a.b]=c` will return a Map with the entry `{"a.b"="c"}`.
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Spring MVC uses a different `ConversionService` to the one used to convert values from your `application.properties` or `application.yaml` file.
The means that `Period`, `Duration` and `DataSize` converters are not available and that `@DurationUnit` and `@DataSizeUnit` annotations will be ignored.
It means that `Period`, `Duration` and `DataSize` converters are not available and that `@DurationUnit` and `@DataSizeUnit` annotations will be ignored.
If you want to customize the `ConversionService` used by Spring MVC, you can provide a `WebMvcConfigurer` bean with an `addFormatters` method.
From this method you can register any converter that you like, or you can delegate to the static methods available on `ApplicationConversionService`.