Gradle: Load property file dependent on profile

Question

I want to write a gradle build script, which works in different environments (development, live). In each environment I have to load different property sets (target directories, databases, etc.).

Is there a gradle way to read a property file dependent on the environment or a profile?

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 05 '14 at 19:44

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You may want to check out the Gradle Properties Plugin.

Include plugin:

plugins {
  id 'net.saliman.properties' version '1.4.2'
}

Create property files:

gradle-dev.properties

or

gradle-prod.properties

Call gradle:

gradle myTask -PenvironmentName=dev
gradle myTask -PenvironmentName=prod

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answered Sep 04 '14 at 20:25

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This is the solution. I just wonder, that gradle do not support it out of the box. – Lorim Sep 05 '14 at 19:40
You should read the whole article, which is an excellent documentation of gradle's property handling. – Lorim Sep 05 '14 at 19:44
do you have a small sample project with multi env profile? that will save a lot of time to many – user3123372 Jan 07 '19 at 05:41

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 05 '17 at 05:06

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Also have a look at gradle's equivalent of maven's profiles.

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 04 '14 at 18:13

I had the same problem, but I use spring and configured it to read properties from classpath:application.properties

In this case you can add this to gradle.build with java plugin

if (project.hasProperty('env')) {
    println "Target environment: $env"
    sourceSets.main.resources.srcDir "src/main/environment/$env"
}

this for different folders based on environment

So for adding resources based on environment 'dev' you should have 'src/main/environment/dev' folder (with properties file), and invoke gradle: gradle myTask -Penv=dev

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