Autowired Environment is null

Question

I have an issue with connecting environment to my Spring project. In this class

@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "my.pack.offer.*")
@PropertySource("classpath:OfferService.properties")
public class PropertiesUtil {
    @Autowired
    private Environment environment;



    @Bean
    public String load(String propertyName)
    {
        return environment.getRequiredProperty(propertyName);
    }
}

environment always is null.

Answer 1

Autowiring happens later than load() is called (for some reason).

A workaround is to implement EnvironmentAware and rely on Spring calling setEnvironment() method:

@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "my.pack.offer.*")
@PropertySource("classpath:OfferService.properties")
public class PropertiesUtil implements EnvironmentAware {
    private Environment environment;

    @Override
    public void setEnvironment(final Environment environment) {
        this.environment = environment;
    }

    @Bean
    public String load(String propertyName)
    {
        return environment.getRequiredProperty(propertyName);
    }
}