Package Maven With Profile

I am running spring boot, and I have a spring boot with 3 profiles. They are as follows.

applicaton.properties
{Empty file}

application-local.properties
test.variable = '1'

application-server.properties
test.variable = '2'

Now, when I run my springboot, I have one or the other profiles always running, depending on if its my server or local env. I have an @value to parse these values. However, when I run mvn package, it freaks out, since it does not pick a profile to package, and when compiling and trying to compile the @value line it cannot find test.variable, since it does not exist on applicaton.properties. How do I mvn package to compile this to a jar?

Also, I understand that when running this application, all I need to do is add -Dspring.profiles.active={profile}, but say I compile under the local profile, can I still run the jar under the server profile properly later?

Thanks!

A bit more of an update... I am attempting to run this command: mvn package -P local

Maven throws this exception:

    {bunch of other stacktrace stuff}
Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'test.variable' in value "${test.variable}"

Please note that when I run this application in intellij, and in my run configurations, when I select to run 'local' as my profile, it works perfectly, so its just a matter of getting maven to use the local profile properly.

Spring profile is just a parameter for your application that is used by spring framework to set up different beans/properties and hence define different application behaviour. Also spring profile is runtime parameter and used only during the running the application. There is no relation between maven profile and spring profile.

So when you wrote

> when I run mvn package, it freaks out, since it does not pick a profile to package, and when compiling and trying to compile the @value line it cannot find test.variable, since it does not exist on applicaton.properties. How do I mvn package to compile this to a jar?

it does not make much sence - because

1. maven does not know aboout spring profiles.
2. maven does not use (and should not use) spring profile for compiling/packaging your application since spring profile is it runtime parameter.

> How do I mvn package to compile this to a jar?

To package your spring boot application to jar one can use spring-boot-maven-plugin. The easiest way to start is to use https://start.spring.io/, which prepate initial maven project sceleton for you.

Multiple options to solve this:

• Provide a default value for your variable

@Value("${test.variable:my-default-value}")
String variable;

• Set profile via maven for tests

<build>
  <plugins>
     ...
	<plugin>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
	 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
		<configuration>
	   	  <argLine>-Dspring.profiles.active=local</argLine>
		</configuration>
	</plugin>

• Provide test variable via src/test/resources/application.properties

# application.properties in test/resources folder
test.variable = test

...