org.springframework.core.env
Interface Environment

All Superinterfaces:

PropertyResolver

All Known Subinterfaces:

ConfigurableEnvironment

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractEnvironment, StandardEnvironment, StandardPortletEnvironment, StandardServletEnvironment

public interface Environment
extends PropertyResolver

Interface representing the environment in which the current application is running. Models two key aspects of the application environment: profiles and properties. Methods related to property access are exposed via the PropertyResolver superinterface.

A profile is a named, logical group of bean definitions to be registered with the container only if the given profile is active. Beans may be assigned to a profile whether defined in XML or via annotations; see the spring-beans 3.1 schema or the @Profile annotation for syntax details. The role of the Environment object with relation to profiles is in determining which profiles (if any) are currently active, and which profiles (if any) should be active by default.

Properties play an important role in almost all applications, and may originate from a variety of sources: properties files, JVM system properties, system environment variables, JNDI, servlet context parameters, ad-hoc Properties objects, Maps, and so on. The role of the environment object with relation to properties is to provide the user with a convenient service interface for configuring property sources and resolving properties from them.

Beans managed within an ApplicationContext may register to be EnvironmentAware or @Inject the Environment in order to query profile state or resolve properties directly.

In most cases, however, application-level beans should not need to interact with the Environment directly but instead may have to have ${...} property values replaced by a property placeholder configurer such as PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer, which itself is EnvironmentAware and as of Spring 3.1 is registered by default when using <context:property-placeholder/>.

Configuration of the environment object must be done through the ConfigurableEnvironment interface, returned from all AbstractApplicationContext subclass getEnvironment() methods. See ConfigurableEnvironment Javadoc for usage examples demonstrating manipulation of property sources prior to application context refresh().

Since:

3.1

Author:

Chris Beams

See Also:

PropertyResolver, EnvironmentCapable, ConfigurableEnvironment, AbstractEnvironment, StandardEnvironment, EnvironmentAware, ConfigurableApplicationContext.getEnvironment(), ConfigurableApplicationContext.setEnvironment(org.springframework.core.env.ConfigurableEnvironment), AbstractApplicationContext.createEnvironment()

Method Summary

boolean	acceptsProfiles(String... profiles) Return whether one or more of the given profiles is active or, in the case of no explicit active profiles, whether one or more of the given profiles is included in the set of default profiles
String[]	getActiveProfiles() Return the set of profiles explicitly made active for this environment.
String[]	getDefaultProfiles() Return the set of profiles to be active by default when no active profiles have been set explicitly.

Methods inherited from interface org.springframework.core.env.PropertyResolver

containsProperty, getProperty, getProperty, getProperty, getProperty, getPropertyAsClass, getRequiredProperty, getRequiredProperty, resolvePlaceholders, resolveRequiredPlaceholders

Method Detail

getActiveProfiles

String[] getActiveProfiles()

Return the set of profiles explicitly made active for this environment. Profiles are used for creating logical groupings of bean definitions to be registered conditionally, for example based on deployment environment. Profiles can be activated by setting "spring.profiles.active" as a system property or by calling ConfigurableEnvironment.setActiveProfiles(String...).

If no profiles have explicitly been specified as active, then any default profiles will automatically be activated.

See Also:

getDefaultProfiles(), ConfigurableEnvironment.setActiveProfiles(java.lang.String...), AbstractEnvironment.ACTIVE_PROFILES_PROPERTY_NAME

getDefaultProfiles

String[] getDefaultProfiles()

Return the set of profiles to be active by default when no active profiles have been set explicitly.

See Also:

getActiveProfiles(), ConfigurableEnvironment.setDefaultProfiles(java.lang.String...), AbstractEnvironment.DEFAULT_PROFILES_PROPERTY_NAME

acceptsProfiles

boolean acceptsProfiles(String... profiles)

Return whether one or more of the given profiles is active or, in the case of no explicit active profiles, whether one or more of the given profiles is included in the set of default profiles

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if called with zero arguments

IllegalArgumentException - if any profile is null, empty or whitespace-only

See Also:

getActiveProfiles(), getDefaultProfiles()