This is a Maven Plugin which helps to generate java *.properties from *.yml (www.yaml.org).

1.3

Building the same artifact for different environments (staging, development, production...) has always been an annoyance. Developer need to do maintainance multiple .properties files (as given tree bellow). Actually, they have a few different values, such as : connection.url, connection.usname, connection.pwd...

Maven Profile plugin is a great tool to help when giving you an ability to do maintain your files, see Maven Profile guide!. In short, your files will be in a tree like bellow

├── resources
│   ├── dev
│   │   ├── log4j.properties
│   │   └── appplication.properties
│   └── local
│       ├── log4j.properties
│       └── application.properties

This is actual annoying if you have so many many environments and many many many properties need your maintenance (like my sample.properties - soure code).

Define all properties for all environments in a YAML format (*.yml) like bellow

#Local env
local:
  spring.profiles.active: ${spring.profile}
  webapp.resource.location: /assets/
  db:
    jdbcUrl: jdbc:pgsql://localhost:5432/bizi-app
    user: postgres
    password: P@ssw0rd
    driverClass: com.impossibl.postgres.jdbc.PGDriver
    pool.maxSize: 5
  base:
    url: http://sample.com/sample-app/
    adminTool.url: http://localhost:9090/

  bizi.admin.api.root.url: http://localhost:9090/api/%s
  redis.expire.time.min: 30
  core.encryptor.passphrase: 6jNugJnQ

#Staging env
staging:
  db:
    user: bizi
    password: password

  base:
    url: http://sample.com/sample-app/
    adminTool.url: http://sample.com/sample-api/

  bizi.admin.api.root.url: http://sample.com/sample-api/api/%s

The given example is to generate prod from dev.

<build>
   <plugins>
      <plugin>
         <groupId>com.github.phuonghuynh</groupId>
         <artifactId>yml2prop</artifactId>
         <version>1.3</version>
         <configuration>
            <sourceYaml>${basedir}/src/main/resources/test.yml</sourceYaml>
            <entries>
               <entry>dev</entry>
               <entry>prod</entry>
            </entries>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
            <execution>
               <phase>generate-resources</phase>
               <goals>
                  <goal>run</goal>
               </goals>
            </execution>
         </executions>
      </plugin>
   </plugins>
</build>

To run this plugin:

mvn yml2prop:run

And sample result like this (for prod environment)

#Generated by Yml2Prop plugin.
#Sat Dec 19 21:42:38 ICT 2015
base.adminTool.url=http\://localhost\:9090/
base.url=http\://52.26.123.153\:8080/bizi-webtool/
bizi.admin.api.root.url=http\://localhost\:9090/api/%s
core.encryptor.passphrase=6jNugJnQ
db.driverClass=com.impossibl.postgres.jdbc.PGDriver
db.jdbcUrl=jdbc\:pgsql\://localhost\:5432/bizi-app
db.password=P@ssw0rd
db.pool.maxSize=5
db.user=postgres
redis.expire.time.min=30
spring.profiles.active=${spring.profile}
webapp.resource.location=/assets/

• sourceYaml: String - source path of your yaml file
• entries: Array of Strings - array of names that will be used to extracted to *.properties, ex: dev, prod, staging...
• destProp: String - destination path of your properties file

Please fell free to contribute.