@Value not resolved when using @PropertySource annotation.

Spring’s gotcha-of-the-day is around using @Value to resolve property placeholders in combination with @PropertySource.

I had the following Spring Java configuration:

@Configuration  
@PropertySource("classpath:/test.properties")  
public class TestAppConfig {

    @Value("${queue.name}")  
    private String queue;
    
    @Bean(name="queue")  
    public String getQueue() {  
        return queue;  
    }  
}  

But the value in “queue” was not resolving - it returned “${queue.name}” as the value.

It turns out that I needed the following magical incantation to get it to work.

@Bean  
public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer propertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer() {  
    return new PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer();  
}