Update docs to clarify ordering for profile-specific properties

Closes gh-2404
pull/2459/head
Andy Wilkinson 10 years ago
parent a88f27168a
commit e489ab9b29

@ -233,10 +233,16 @@ sensible overriding of values, properties are considered in the the following or
. Java System properties (`System.getProperties()`).
. OS environment variables.
. A `RandomValuePropertySource` that only has properties in `+random.*+`.
. Application properties outside of your packaged jar (`application.properties`
including YAML and profile variants).
. Application properties packaged inside your jar (`application.properties`
including YAML and profile variants).
. <<boot-features-external-config-profile-specific-properties,Profile-specific
application properties>> outside of your packaged jar
(`application-{profile}.properties` and YAML variants)
. <<boot-features-external-config-profile-specific-properties,Profile-specific
application properties>> packaged inside your jar (`application-{profile}.properties`
and YAML variants)
. Application properties outside of your packaged jar (`application.properties` and YAML
variants).
. Application properties packaged inside your jar (`application.properties` and YAML
variants).
. `@PropertySource` annotations on your `@Configuration` classes.
. Default properties (specified using `SpringApplication.setDefaultProperties`).
@ -264,6 +270,11 @@ default `name`. When running in production, an `application.properties` can be p
outside of your jar that overrides `name`; and for one-off testing, you can launch with
a specific command line switch (e.g. `java -jar app.jar --name="Spring"`).
[[boot-features-external-config-random-values]]
=== Configuring random values
The `RandomValuePropertySource` is useful for injecting random values (e.g. into secrets
or test cases). It can produce integers, longs or strings, e.g.
@ -345,12 +356,14 @@ environment variables or system properties.
[[boot-features-external-config-profile-specific-properties]]
=== Profile specific properties
In addition to `application.properties` files, profile specific properties can also be
=== Profile-specific properties
In addition to `application.properties` files, profile-specific properties can also be
defined using the naming convention `application-{profile}.properties`.
Profile specific properties are loaded from the same locations as standard
`application.properties`, with profile specific files overriding the default ones.
`application.properties`, with profile-specific files always overriding the default
ones irrespective of whether the profile-specific files are inside or outside your
packaged jar.

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