[SOLVED] Getting the Gradle.build version into Spring Boot

Getting the Gradle.build version into Spring Boot

I'm trying to display the application version of my Spring Boot application in a view. I'm sure I can access this version information, I just don't know how.

I tried following this information: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/production-ready-endpoints.html, and put this in my application.properties:

info.build.version=${version}

And then loading it @Value("${version.test}") in my controller, but that doesn't work, I only get errors like:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'version' in string value "${version}"

Any suggestions on what the proper way to get information like my app version, the spring boot version, etc into my controller?

Solution

As described in the reference documentation, you need to instruct Gradle to process you application's resources so that it will replace the ${version} placeholder with the project's version:

processResources {
    expand(project.properties)
}

To be safe, you may want to narrow things down so that only application.properties is processed:

processResources {
    filesMatching('application.properties') {
        expand(project.properties)
    }
}

Now, assuming that your property is named info.build.version, it'll be available via @Value:

@Value("${info.build.version}")