Spring Boot: Property 'spring.profiles' imported from location ... is invalid and should be replaced with 'spring.config.activate.on-profile'

Question

I just upgraded the Spring Boot Starter Parent dependency 2.7.5 --> 3.0.2.

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.2</version>
    <relativePath />
</parent>

Note that the application.yml already has the following Legacy Processing mode setting, which should prevent the error below:

spring.config.use-legacy-processing: true

There are different profiles defined in application.yml as follows:

spring:
  profiles.active: dev
  profiles: dev
  rails:
    url: ...
    userIdentifier: ...
    service: FILESERVICE
    methodInBody: POST
    uri: /api/external-interfaces/file-locations
   
---
spring:
  profiles: stage
  rails:
    url: ...
    userIdentifier: ...
    service: FILESERVICE
    methodInBody: POST
    uri: /api/external-interfaces/file-locations
  jackson:
    serialization:
      indent-output: true
---
spring:
  profiles: prod
  rails:
    url: ...
    userIdentifier: ...
    service: FILESERVICE
    methodInBody: POST
    uri: /api/external-interfaces/file-locations

Error on mvn spring-boot:run:

org.springframework.boot.context.config.InvalidConfigDataPropertyException: Property 'spring.profiles' imported from location 'class path resource [application.yml]' is invalid and should be replaced with 'spring.config.activate.on-profile' [origin: class path resource [application.yml] - 41:13]

Do I just need to replace all 3 occurrences of profiles: with spring.config.activate.on-profile: ?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 22 '23 at 20:09

I had to re-write it as follows per this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/a/73791460/1005607

spring.profiles has to be replaced with spring.config.activate.on-profile

if spring.profiles.active exists (this is still allowed), it cannot coexist with any spring.config.activate.on-profile

spring:
   profiles.active: dev
   rails:
     url: ..
     userIdentifier: ..
     service: FILESERVICE
     methodInBody: POST
     uri: /api/external-interfaces/file-locations

 ---
 spring:
   config:
      activate:
          on-profile: stage
   rails:
     url: ..
     userIdentifier: ..
     service: FILESERVICE
     methodInBody: POST
     uri: /api/external-interfaces/file-locations
   jackson:
     serialization:
       indent-output: true
 ---
 spring:
   config:
      activate:
          on-profile: prod
   rails:
     url: ..
     service: FILESERVICE
     methodInBody: POST
     uri: /api/external-interfaces/file-locations

Spring Boot: Property 'spring.profiles' imported from location ... is invalid and should be replaced with 'spring.config.activate.on-profile'

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