Gradle build spring boot app as war with active profile

gradle, spring-boot, spring-profiles

Solution

It sounds like you want to bake the value of `spring.profiles.active` into the war when it's built. You can do so using Gradle's support for resource filtering. Configure your `application.properties` like this:

spring.profiles.active=@activeProfiles@

And then apply filtering in your `build.gradle` to replace `@activeProfiles@` with the value of a property:

processResources {
    filter org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ReplaceTokens, tokens: [
        activeProfiles: activeProfiles
    ]
}

In this example, I've used a property named `activeProfiles`. You'd then have to supply a value when you run the build:

./gradlew -PactiveProfiles=foo build

Problem

I would like to package my spring boot application as war for a specific profile. That can be done with setting spring.profiles.active=profile name in application.properties file. Is it possible to set it as a parameter when building war eg. gradle build --spring.profiles.active=profile name?

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